Tottenham 1-2 Newcastle: Toon win at the Lane to lift pressure on Pardew

Newcastle United stretched their unbeaten run to three games to ease the pressure on Alan Pardew with a 2-1 win over Tottenham at White Hart Lane.

Second half goals from substitute Sammy Ameobi and Ayoze Perez cancelled out Emmanuel Adebayor's first half header to lift the Magpies outside of the relegation zone. 

Ameobi scored just seven seconds after coming on as a half time substitute, collecting Jack Colback’s through ball before finishing in the bottom corner past Hugo Lloris to equalise for the visitors.

Perez opened his Newcastle account to give the Magpies the lead against the run of play as another Pardew half time substitute, Remy Cabella played a crucial role in the game. The French winger crossed for the young striker to head past Lloris for his first Premier League goal.

Emmanuel Adebayor opened the scoring in the 19th minute as he met Ryan Mason's dinked cross to head past Tim Krul at the back post for his third league goal of the season. 

Newcastle had struggled to make any inroads in the first half and Alan Pardew rolled the dice in replacing Gabriel Obertan and Vurnon Anita with Ameobi and Cabella.

It immediately paid off. The England Under-21 international collected Colback’s raking through ball before firing a low drive across Hugo Lloris to level for the visitors and leave Mauricio Pochettino, who had not even sat down for the second half, stunned.

Newcastle, who looked much brighter, then took the lead as the ball found Cabella and he sweetly picked out Ayoze Pérez who found enough space inside the box to head home.

The visitors could have stretched their lead further as Cabella found himself through on goal but he could only find the side netting from the byline following neat build up play from Paul Dummett.

Tottenham thought they had grabbed a freak equaliser in the 68th minute as Christian Eriksen swung in a corner that cannoned of Tim Krul before finding the back of the net, but the linesman adjudged the ball to have gone out of play.

Spurs continued to press but lacked that final killer ball as the north London club lost for the second week in a row to drop to eleventh in the table.

Newcastle, meanwhile, win at White Hart Lane for the second season in a row to climb out of the relegation zone and up to 14th in the league as the pressure starts to ease on Pardew.