Pavlyuchenko on target as Toon tumble again

ROMAN Pavlyuchenko’s first goal in English football helped to pile further pressure on managerless Newcastle as the Carling Cup failed to provide any relief on Tyneside last night.

The Russian, a £13.8m summer arrival at White Hart Lane, thumped home a 62nd-minute free header to put holders Spurs on the road to their first domestic victory of the season. But it was midfielder Jamie O’Hara who sealed the win four minutes later when he capitalised on a dreadful error by Steven Taylor to fire past the stranded Shay Given.

Michael Owen’s 90th-minute strike could not prevent the Magpies’ slipping to a fourth successive defeat.

NEWCASTLE: Given, Geremi, Taylor, Coloccini, Bassong, Cacapa (Edgar 72), Butt, N’Zogbia, Owen, Duff (Xisco 72), Martins.

TOTTENHAM: Gomes, Corluka, King, Woodgate, Assou-Ekotto, Lennon (Campbell 62), Jenas, Zokora, O’Hara, Bale (Giovani 53), Pavlyuchenko (Modric 75).

Ipswich 1 Wigan 4

PREMIER League Wigan gave Ipswich a lesson in finishing , beating the Championship side 4-1 at Portman Road. The visitors took the lead in the Carling Cup third-round tie at Portman Road with Lee Cattermole’s first goal of the season on 51 minutes.

They were briefly pegged back by the hosts through a Jonathan Walters volley but rallied with goals from Olivier Kapo and Paul Scharner, before substitute Henri Camara made it 4-1 in stoppage-time.

IPSWICH: Richard Wright, Volz, Bruce, McAuley, Thatcher (Balkestein 46), Norris, Campo, Miller, Quinn (Haynes 72), Walters, Lisbie (Bowditch 82).

WIGAN: Kirkland, Cattermole, Boyce, Bramble, Kilbane, Valencia, Scharner, Palacios (De Ridder 71), Kapo, Heskey (Camara 75), Zaki (Koumas 82).