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Newcastle fans stunned by what they saw involving Joelinton against Brentford

Newcastle United are through to the Carabao Cup semi-finals after running out 3-1 winners over Brentford in Wednesday’s quarter-final at St James’ Park.

Sandro Tonali helped the Magpies on their way with a bra⛦ce, getting his first in the ninth minute and his second just before the break.

Fabian Schar then put Newcastle out of reach in the 69th minute, with Yoann Wissa netting a c🥃onsolation in injᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚury time.

While Magpies fans were happy with most of the events on the night, there was one controversial moment involving Joelinton they felt shouldn’t have gone unpunished.

Photo by Serena Taylor/Newcastle United via Getty Images
Photo by Serena Taylor/Newcastle United via Getty Images

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Newcastle fans aggrieved Nathan Collins was not punished after Joelinton incident

In the first half, Brentford’s Nathan Collins caught Joelinton in the f⛎ace with his elbow and then stood on his face while jumping for💮 the ball.

Newcastle fans were stunned that the incident involving Collins Joelinton didn’t 𒐪even warrant a booking, something which would not have been the case with VA﷽R.

🐬One supporter wrote: “VAR in play and Collins sees red, unintentional or not he’s literally jumped on Joelinton’s head.”

Another onဣe said: “Collins elbowed Joelinton in the face, then lands on him. We get no free kick and the commentators says it was the landing.

“Ar🅷e they watching the same game we are? T💧otal anti-Toon bias again!!”

Newcastle fans were also impressed by how Joelinton actedꩵ in the aftermath of the incident, confronting Collin🐼s and not flinching when getting patched up.

One fan wrote: “Joelinton casually getting his face st𝄹apled up on the pitch, without so much as a flinch.”

Another said: “Joelinton has solidified himself hard ******* status btw,෴ elbowed + face stamped on and got up wanting to fight!”

And one wrote: “Never been as moved in my life as when Joelinton went to set𒁃 about Nathan Collins af🔯ter getting his face stood on, hardest man in the Toon I fear.”

Joelinton ended up beꩵing substituted at half time.

How the media rated Joelinton display v Brentford

gave Joelinton a 7 out of 10 rating and wrote: “Battled 🙈on until half-time after Nathan 𝓡Collins elbowed him then stamped on him.

“Would have been a red card with🌃 VAR so no wonder he was furious.”

Meanwhile, the went with🅺 a rating of 6 out of 10 for his efforts on the night.

They wrote: “Battled on after receiving a nasty cut down his ear after being elbowed and jumped on🦩 by Nathan Collins.”