In a rain soaked evening - Newcastle United and Aston Villa battled it out to come away with a share of the spoils.

Villa had numerous chances but three big saves from Steve Harper kept the homes side in it.

A messy affair from Sam Allardyces' point of view as his team failed to create many chances - at times struggling to get into rhythm.

A couple of positive notes from the game were the return of Michael Owen to the side and making his first league appearance since last season. Also Steve Harper keeping a clean sheet.

The other is the introduction of Cacapa as Newcastles 1000th player ever to put on a Newcastle United shirt.

Allardyce and co will hope things go well in training in preparation for Liverpool next week. Although if they will certainly need to improve to take any points in that game.