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Cisse's dream debut at St James'

3:45pm Sunday 5th February 2012 in Newcastle United News

Papiss Demba Cisse announced his arrival in English football with a stunning debut goal as Newcastle edged past Aston Villa.

The 26-year-old Senegal striker thumped a 71st-minute volley past former Magpies keeper Shay Given to win a pulsating Barclays Premier League encounter in which the visitors enjoyed the better of the first half, but could not make the most of their chances.

Cisse, who was introduced as an early replacement for the injured Leon Best, saw international team-mate Demba Ba fire the home side into a 30th-minute lead but, after Darren Bent had twice been denied by keeper Tim Krul, Robbie Keane levelled deep into first-half stoppage time.

However, Alan Pardew's men improved after the break and, to the delight of a crowd of 48,569, managed to see out time to bank another three points.

Comments(1)

swoopingmagpie says...
1:27am Mon 6 Feb 12

Great start for Cisse - he looks like living up to his reputation. Lets hope he will stay round long enough to build a great team that wins things. Tiote too must be retained in the summer; if that happens, then I will start to believe that this management mean business ( in the football sense I mean )

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