The away side came flying out the traps with Darrhyl Mason using his strength well to hold off Kyle Stubbs before striking the bouncing ball past Joe Slinn, who remained rooted to the spot. 0-1
After falling behind in the first minute, Castle needed to find a response and they did so through Nathan Barry.
His strike partner Tim Grice got a deft touch with his head to flick it into the feet of the number 10. He took the ball down in the box, created some space with a fake shot and then curled the ball into the top right. 1-1
Just nine minutes later, Mason caused the Castle backline more problems. This time he burst through, and Oli Ritchie could only bundle the rapid winger to the ground resulting in a penalty.
Up stepped Andy Keogh to take for visitors and he smashed the ball from the spot into the top left-hand corner beyond the outstretched Slinn. 1-2
The first real chance of the second period didn’t come until the 69th minute. Olly Armstrong broke down the right flank and squared the ball across to Grice.
The experienced striker dummied the ball to Ty Webster and with acres of space, he didn’t trouble Kyle Haslam anywhere near as much as he should’ve.
With less than 10 minutes of regulation time on the clock, Wythenshawe thought they’d wrapped things up early via Fraser Goodwin.
The centre back came up for a corner and met the set-piece with little pressure. His header deflected off a Newcastle body in the six-yard box forcing Slinn to re-adjust and make a superb reflex save.
Unfortunately, Neil Baker’s side couldn’t find a late equaliser to rescue a point as the away side took all three from the Red Industries Stadium.
Starting XI – Slinn, Derbyshire (60’ Zuk), Ritchie, Sherratt (77’ Mohamed), Throley, Stubbs (C), Webster, Dos Santos (77’ Avery), Grice, Barry (81’ Jones), Twyford (17’ Armstrong)
Subs – Armstrong, Mohamed, Zuk, Avery, Jones
