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​Newcastle keeper Elliot urges caution over Matty Longstaff

Newcastle United goalkeeper Rob Elliot does not want the club to overhype youngster Matty Longstaff.

The younger of the Longstaff brothers shone for the Magpies against Manchester United in a 1-0 win.

It was his long range strike that gave the home team all three points in an intense clash. While Elliot sees Matty's talent, he urges caution.

He said to reporters: "It's given the club a massive lift in the fact that we had a tough result [against Leicester] but it just showed there is lots of optimism coming through and we've got a new star on the rise.

"I would just say, don't expect him to do that every week. He's a young kid and we still have to look after him.

"It's not to say he's going to play every game until the end of the season, obviously I'm not involved in that process but we just need to make sure that we understand he's still a young lad at 19.

"What he did was absolutely amazing and hopefully he goes on to keep replicating that.

"But his development isn't just next weekend, it's over the next three, four years.

"He might be playing, not playing, playing different roles and he's going to have up and down days - the same with Sean, so we just have to be patient.

"The good thing is there are kids coming through with the potential to achieve whatever they want to achieve."

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