A young Newcastle are thrashed 8-0 by the A-League All Stars in a post-season friendly in Melbourne.
on Wednesday and the youthful XI he picked were no match for a side made up of the top players from Australia and New Zealand's premier league.
Apostolos Stamatelopoulos scored twice after the break before Jake Hollman, Jordan Courtney-Perkins and Bozhidar Kraev added to Newcastle's misery late on. "I don't think we could have , especially when you combine the travelling time that we've had and the quick time between games, it was too big of a risk of injuries and we couldn't afford that.
With Bruno Guimaraes and Miguel Almiron having departed to begin preparations for the Copa America and many more rested, England full-back Kieran Trippier was one of the few first-team players in the squad.
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