Newcastle 2-3 Brentford (Feb 7, 2026) Game Analysis – ESPN Skip to main content Skip to navigation ESPN NFL NFL NBA NBA NCAAM NCAAM NCAAW NCAAW Olympics Olympics NHL NHL Soccer Soccer More Sports More Sports Watch Watch Fantasy Fantasy Where to Watch Search Newcastle v Brentford 2025-26 English Premier League Newcastle United Newcastle NEW 9-6-10 , 33 PTS 2 9-6-10 , 33 PTS FT Brentford Brentford BRE 12-3-10 , 39 PTS 3 12-3-10 , 39 PTS Sven Botman – 24' Bruno Guimarães – 79' Pen Vitaly Janelt – 37' Igor Thiago – 45'+2' Pen Dango Ouattara – 85' Summary Report Commentary Statistics Line-Ups Videos Brentford strike late to win at struggling Newcastle By PA Updated: Feb 7, 2026, 03:32 pm Facebook Facebook Messenger Twitter Email Dango Ouattara blasted Brentford victory at Newcastle to boost their hopes of European qualification and further dent those of the Magpies. The 23-year-old Burkina Faso international struck five minutes from time to seal a 3-2 Premier League win at a wintry St James’ Park. It proved another difficult day for the Magpies, who had taken an early lead through Sven Botman’s first goal since New Year’s Day 2024, only for Vitaly Janelt and Igor Thiago’s penalty — his 18th goal of the season — to turn the game on its head before Bruno Guimarães levelled from the spot. Eddie Howe’s men have now lost four times at home this season and dropped 19 points from a winning position, a fact which was not lost on a disappointed home crowd on the final whistle. The Bees moved the ball in confident fashion early on with former Sunderland midfielder Jordan Henderson providing the fulcrum, although it was his foul on Lewis Hall on the edge of the box from which Sandro Tonali drilled a 10th-minute free kick well over. Brentford's Dango Ouattara celebrates scoring the winner against Newcastle. ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP via Getty Images Harvey Barnes went close again with 15 minuets gone when, after goalkeeper Caoimhín Kelleher had punched Tonali’s corner to Jacob Murphy on the edge of the box, he drilled in a low ball which the former Leicester player backheeled just wide. Keane Lewis-Potter , in for the suspended Kevin Schade , only just failed to get on the end of Michael Kayode’s low 20th-minute cross with the visitors seeing plenty of the ball, but their side fell behind four minutes later. Thiago sliced the first of two Guimaraes corners behind and Botman met the second to send a deft header past the helpless Kelleher, and it might have been 2-0 had either Guimarães or Yoane Wissa , playing against his former club for the first time, managed to get a decisive touch on Hall’s cross. Brentford were level eight minutes before the break when Ouattara found space on the left and crossed for Janelt to climb above Botman and head past Nick Pope . The visitors were ahead in first-half stoppage time when Thiago sent Pope the wrong way from the spot, after Mathias Jensen’s shot had hit Murphy’s arm. Howe’s response was to send on record signing Nick Woltemade and Anthony Elanga for Murphy and Joe Willock at the break, and the former Nottingham Forest man in particular added fresh urgency. The Magpies were incensed not to be awarded a spot-kick of their own when Kieran Trippier’s 51st-minute cross appeared to hit Rico Henry’s arm, and Barnes headed wide from another Trippier delivery three minutes later. Kelleher palmed away Malick Thiaw’s stinging 67th-minute drive and Botman headed wide from the resulting corner as the pressure on the Londoners mounted, and they succumbed with 12 minutes remaining when, after a VAR review of Kayode’s challenge on Guimarães, the Brazilian nervelessly converted the penalty. However, there was a twist with five minutes remaining when Ouattara ran on to Jensen’s ball and drove a left-foot shot past Pope to give the Bees a first win on Tyneside since 1934. Game Information St. James' Park 12:30 PM , February 7, 2026 Coverage : Peacock Newcastle-upon-Tyne , England Attendance : 52,032 Referees : Andy Madley English Premier League Standings Team GP W D L GD P Arsenal 25 17 5 3 +32 56 Manchester City 24 14 5 5 +26 47 Aston Villa 25 14 5 6 +9 47 Manchester United 25 12 8 5 +10 44 Chelsea 25 12 7 6 +17 43 Liverpool 24 11 6 7 +6 39 Brentford 25 12 3 10 +5 39 Everton 25 10 7 8 0 37 Sunderland 25 9 9 7 -2 36 Fulham 25 10 4 11 -2 34 AFC Bournemouth 25 8 10 7 -3 34 Newcastle United 25 9 6 10 -1 33 Brighton & Hove Albion 24 7 10 7 +2 31 Tottenham Hotspur 25 7 8 10 0 29 Crystal Palace 24 7 8 9 -4 29 Leeds United 25 7 8 10 -9 29 Nottingham Forest 25 7 5 13 -13 26 West Ham United 25 6 5 14 -17 23 Burnley 25 3 6 16 -24 15 Wolverhampton Wanderers 25 1 5 19 -32 8 Full Table Premier League News Should Eddie Howe's Newcastle future be in doubt? Don Hutchison reacts to Newcastle's 3-2 loss to Brentford in the Premier League. 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