Anthony Gordon spot on as Newcastle fight back to hold Manchester City

Anthony Gordon celebrated his impending new contract early as he struck from the penalty spot to deny Premier League champions Manchester City victory at Newcastle.

The England international, who revealed before kick-off that he was close to agreeing an improved deal, made no mistake from 12 yards after being brought down by keeper Ederson to cancel out Josko Gvardiol's first-half opener and ensure it ended 1-1 in front of a crowd of 52,248 at St James' Park.

City began life without injured midfielder Rodri in confident fashion, but for the second time in a week, had to settle for a point despite taking the lead.

With Mateo Kovacic plugging the sizeable gap left by the Spain midfielder, City set out in determined fashion with Manuel Akanji seeing a fifth-minute shot deflected wide before Erling Haaland forced the game's first save from Nick Pope after Akanji and Ilkay Gundogan had linked smoothly.

Newcastle's plan was to sit in and attempt to hit the visitors on the break, but chances to do so were few and far between, although it took a brave 15th-minute block by Jack Grealish to keep Kieran Trippier's shot away from Ederson's goal after Bruno Guimaraes and Gordon, deputising as a central striker for the injured Alexander Isak, had fed the ball across to him.

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Proceedings became increasingly scrappy as a physical encounter unfolded and it took a fine challenge from Trippier to prevent Haaland from converting Bernardo Silva's 28th-minute cross at the far post.

However, City went ahead 10 minutes before the break when Grealish left former England team-mate Trippier for dead and picked out full-back Gvardiol, who stepped inside Dan Burn before blasting past Pope with the help of a slight deflection off