Peter Beardsley: “They have to reflect on this first and get in the real world.”

A decent crowd of 2,831 filled one small part of the 60,000 capacity Emirates and within nine minutes the home fans had seen their side go two up.

Arsenal play Newcastle’s young stars at the Emirates on Friday, with Jack Wilshere returning for the home side.

Watch as Newcastle visited Swansea on Monday night – eight goals to enjoy, some decent strikes from United’s young stars but as for the defending…

Despite the positivity from Peter Beardsley….It almost makes the first team’s two wins since 13 December 2015 look decent!

Peter Beardsley: “We deserved to win. I know they had a couple of chances and we made a couple of good saves, but overall I think there was only one team looking to win.”

Rafa Benitez gets his first chance to watch a Newcastle team in action as the Peter Beardsley managed reserves take on West Ham at St James Park on Friday night.

Young rising Newcastle star Callum Roberts has won the Barclays Premier League Under 21s player of the month award for January.

Emmanuel Riviere scored only seconds after returning to action but Newcastle still made it 3 Cup exits in 8 days.

Rolando Aarons is back in action for Newcastle, part of the United reserve team squad that has travelled to Everton for tonight’s game.