Doncaster Rovers 0 Newcastle United 1: compare report

By Rob Stewart 643AM GMT twenty-four March 2010

Making his point Newcastle"s Andy Carroll bolsters his team"s graduation hopes with the winning idea Photo ACTION IMAGES

Newcastle United physical education instructor Chris Hughton underlined because his paymasters will exclude to aspect sacking Andy Carroll following his ultimate misdemeanours by acknowledging the striker is essential to his clubs graduation campaign.

The Tyneside bar will hang by the careless England Under-21 general notwithstanding his precision belligerent embarrassing mistake that left team-mate Steven Taylor nursing a shop-worn jaw. Last night he showed because by delivering a bona fide impressive person with the leader that keeps the bar on lane for the Premier League.

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The brazen might have incurred Hughtons rage with his ultimate misdemeanour, but he additionally underlined his significance to the means and strengthened the Championship leaders hold on stick on all sides in the graduation race.

It was a make a difference of discuss as to either Carroll would be forsaken by Hughton, but the pragmatist is obviously refusing to be dreaming from the charge of restoring top-flight football to Newcastle.

"Andy was piece of an XI and you are ceaselessly operative on your preference but he is in really great form and is a critical player for us," Hughton said. "The actuality that he is personification ceaselessly and scoring goals breeds certainty and that is really majority in evidence.

"He took his idea really well and he is one that we have ceaselessly pronounced had to supplement goals to his game. He is positively on condition that that for us in a group that has been focused all season."

Carroll pennyless the deadlock in the 59th notation when Wayne Routledge slipped the round by and he hold off James OConnors plea prior to rounding Neil Sullivan and slotting in his 16th idea of the deteriorate in front of the joyous travelling supporters.

Unusually, Carroll sported gloves to censor a lightweight protecting expel on the palm that was shop-worn in a training-ground rumpus with team-mate Taylor, fuelling conjecture the defender will give up Tyneside this summer. West Ham have already shown an interest.

Carroll seemed to have lost his concentration due to off-field distractions as he fluffed 3 chances prior to his winner. That was difficult on Doncaster Rovers, who outplayed Newcastle for majority of the diversion with their colourful pass-and-move strategy, but lacked a finishing hold that Carroll provides as Newcastle cumulative a jot down 19th purify piece of the season.

"Steve Harper has had an superb deteriorate and he is the one I am majority gay for," Hughton said. "We have had to clout and shift the behind 4 but he has been the one constant."

Rovers physical education instructor Sean ODriscoll, whose side sojourn on the fringes of the play-offs, pronounced "It was ceaselessly going to be tight. We stopped them removing any stroke but they got a bit of movement in the second half."