Full time: Newcastle United 1 Leicester City 0

NEWCASTLE picked up their first Premier League victory of the season with a 1-0 win over Leicester City.

Newcastle’s supporters have been made to wait seven games before tasting victory, which came courtesy of Gabriel Obertan’s second-half goal, and they were made to wait even longer on the day after the game was delayed by an hour as windy weather on Tyneside dislodged some of the plastic housing around the club’s new giant LED screen at St James’ Park.

While nobody was injured in the incident – the issue was made safe by engineers before fans were allowed to enter the stadium – the delay did claim one casualty as Cheik Tiote was injured in the warm-up, with Vurnon Anita replacing him in Newcastle’s starting XI.

Despite the distractions, Newcastle started brightly and got about their business well, with Obertan particularly sharp. The winger’s industry allowed Moussa Sissoko to get down the flank and whip a cross in for Fabricio Coloccini to sidefoot wide on eight minutes.

Paul Dummett fired a warning shot into Kasper Schmeichel’s hands from 20 yards, before Matty James registered the Foxes’ first effort at the other end with a weak shot into Tim Krul’s hands.

Yoan Gouffran saw a chance drop wide from Jack Colback’s free-kick after Obertan was wiped out by Liam Moore on the edge of the area, while Marc Albrighton’s free-kick hit the crossbar when Krul lost the flight of the ball in the air.

In the second half, Sissoko’s shot was deflected by Moore and went close to deceiving the backpedalling Schmeichel, but the Dane’s blushes were saved when the effort dropped the other side of the cross bar.

But Newcastle should have been 1-0 up on 52 minutes when Papiss Cisse raced on to a stray backpass, rounded Schmeichel but could only fire into the side netting from an acute angle.

Jack Colback brought a flying save out of Schmeichel on 55 minutes when the Killingworth midfielder swung in a free-kick that the Foxes stopper had to tip over the crossbar.

Both sides set their stall out in a defensive 4-5-1 formation, but Leicester showed their hand first when they brought Jamie Vardy and David Nugent into the fray. Newcastle, moments later, followed suit by bringing Ayoze Perez on to partner Cisse.

The game opened up somewhat, with Leicester surging forward and Newcastle counter-attacking, and it was one such counter that brought the Magpies’ goal.

Sissoko swept forward after Perez cleared with a header, and the Frenchman released the ball to Obertan, who cut inside and fired home courtesy of a slight deflection.

Cisse’s downward header had to be pushed over the crossbar by Schmeichel on 86 minutes, as the Magpies sought to grind the result out.

Newcastle United:Krul; Janmaat, Coloccini, Taylor, Dummett (Haidara 72); Obertan, Anita (Perez 59), Colback, Sissoko, Gouffran (Cabella 92); Cisse. Subs: Ferreyra, Perez, Elliot, Abeid, Armstrong.

Leicester City: Schmeichel; De Laet, Morgan, Moore, Konchesky; Albrighton (Vardy 56), Drinkwater, Cambiasso (Knockaert 79), James, Schlupp (Nugent 56); Ulloa. Subs: Hammond, King, Hamer, Wasilewski.