Magpies were simply too good for us, admits Beale

Isak brace helps to sink the Black Cats
By Chris Dunlavy

SUNDERLAND 0

NEWCASTLE U 3
Ballard 35 (og), Isak 46, 90 (pen)

STAR MAN
MIGUEL ALMIRON Newcastle

Star Game
MICHAEL Beale admitted his Sunderland team had been outclassed as bitter rivals Newcastle dominated the first Tyne-Wear derby for eight years.
Eddie Howe’s Magpies had won just once in eight games ahead of kick-off and a passionate home crowd arrived at the Stadium of Light harbouring tentative hopes of an upset.
But the Championship side proved no match for their Champions League opponents, who went ahead through Dan Ball...

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