Maybe it was tempting fate when, a few days ago, Rafael Benítez posed for photographs in front of the Angel of the North. Or perhaps six changes simply represented too heavy a home rotation against clearly underestimated visitors but, whatever the precise reason, Newcastle United’s nine-game winning run game to an abrupt end.
The final whistle was supposed to see Benítez’s team celebrating the establishment of the new club record a 10th straight victory in all competitions would have brought them. Instead their old vulnerabilities at defending set pieces returned to haunt them, leaving Owen Coyle’s Blackburn Rovers the jubilant ones.
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