Newcastle are first side through to Youth Cup Semis.
Newcastle United 4-2 Crystal Palace
The FA Youth Cup sponsored by E.ON
Sixth Round Proper
7pm, Thursday 25 February
St. James' Park, Newcastle United FC
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Newcastle booked their place in The FA Youth Cup sponsored by E.ON Semi-Final with a 4-2 win over Crystal Palace at St. James’ Park.
The north east club made home advantage count as they enjoyed their first home fixture in the competition and will now face the winners of next month’s tie between Aston Villa and Fulham.
The home side opened the scoring on 24 minutes when Samuel Adjei's free-kick picked out Conor Newton who flicked a close-range header past Palace 'keeper Charlie Mann.
Adeji doubled the lead for Newcastle just three minutes later when he capitalised on a mistake by Kieran Kenlock and planted a superb chip over Mann.
Palace blew a chance to get back into the game on 38 minutes when Joe Goldsmith saw his penalty kick saved by Jak Alnwick. But just moments later the visitors were awarded another spot-kick and Goldsmith made no mistake second time around slotting the ball into the bottom corner.
Newcastle restored their two-goal lead when they added a third on 53 minutes. Phil Airey fired the ball home from close-range.
The game was all but over when Sammy Ameobi made it four for Newcastle on 78 minutes when he struck the ball past Mann from ten yards.
Palace netted a consolation goal shortly afterwards when Ibra Sekajja lobbed the ball over Alnwick, but Newcastle held on to book their place in the last four of the competition.
