Jonjo Shelvey's second half free-kick was enough to give Newcastle United their second win of the season, beating Leeds United 1-0 at Elland Road.
The game had been an open one before the goal, with chances for both sides, although Leeds will feel they might have taken the lead through two big Daniel James chances.
However, Alan Shearer disagreed with a match report in which the game had been described as one-sided towards the home side.
"It was a huge game. I don't necessarily agree with the match report that I've just heard there about the most one-sided game ever," Shearer said on BBC Radio Five Live.
"What about the Wood chance, the Willock chance, Saint-Maximin should have had a penalty. First half maybe, never second half, they were well in the game Newcastle and defended really well.
"Leeds were desperately lacking a centre-forward, didn't really have a presence in the box particularly for the first half, but Newcastle had to dig deep for that and dig deep they did.
"I thought they deserved it in the end were the better team in the second half. They had to win that game, particularly with the result last night with Norwich winning."
Something that would have been particularly pleasing to Magpies fans is how the team held on to the lead, particularly after seeing one slip against Watford last week. Shearer was delighted at the resilience and team-spirit on show.
"They had to show that [team spirit] because some of the performances over the last couple of months were unacceptable," Shearer added.
"When you talk about the FA Cup when they went down to Cambridge, last weekend's game as well against Watford, didn't show anywhere near enough belief and ability, so I'm hoping that confidence-wise it'll be absolutely huge and I know there's a break now.
"Newcastle could ideally do with a game in two or three days time to take it into that. But they've got injuries, there were two or three injuries that went off today and the guys that came on performed really well, so I thought it was a really good together performance."
Newcastle will now head off to a warm weather training camp in Saudi Arabia in a buoyant mood.
