Match Thread | Newcastle vs Man City (21/08/22)

[Keeper!]

Course it is. Just hope we’re still in it when they start tiring

The worry is we are the ones looking leggy

 

[01cravend]

Not a single one of our defenders or Rodri have made a tackle btw

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Just wish I could watch it no rivers are working :(

To be fair you are the lucky one.

 

[Bald fraud]

sky taking the piss out of us saying if halftime was half an hour we’d show all the Newcastle chances! Get out there and fuckin do em blues!!

 

[Akiva]

We fight til the end, still think we'll get a result here. Just need a few key switches. Perhaps a good game for Kalvin and Alvarez

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Alvarez energy is needed

Can he play RB?

 

[christened at st marks]

Kalvin for Phil, Kyle back to traditional FB role, Rodri much to slow we need more in central mid, either that or Mahrez for Phil and Bernie Back to help

 

[LongsightM13]

Bernardo on the right wing weakens both his own game and our midfield. Pointless and demonstrably doesn’t work. Need to go back to basics, square pegs in square holes. Full backs playing full back as well

 

[warringtonblue]

Haaland wasn't really in the position for the pass this time though.

He was

 

[WorthlessPoster]

We'll win 2-3.

 

[heslops barnet]

Still very confident about this, I predict a couple of early goals 2nd half.

Who for?

 

[Keeper!]

Anyone close to Andy Hinchcliffe to give him a box on the nose?

Fucking Wanker.

He's a ****, fuck him, and a big nosed **** at that

 

[Blu1]

I’m going 4-2 just not sure who’s going to win though

Cmon city

 

[Chippy_boy]

More of a case of us playing the first two games against teams that were a few levels below intensity as that is newcastle.

It’s obvious that newcastle are out there to play high press football and they have a point to prove it seems. So we have to step up instead of passing the ball around yet leaving Stones trying to keep off 2 sometimes 3 players.

This is the type of game where Fernandinho is missed. Rodri has to do better here.

Let’s see how we will reshape for the second half.

Good post. This is the pattern of how to beat us. Can we step up?

 

[GY.Blue]

This was looking like a formality after the first goal,but Walker and Stones getting killed on that right hand side,Stones especially looks rusty and negative and putting Ederson under pressur.

 

[BlueMonkey79]

Stop Saint maximan and we stop Newcastle. Simple as that.

 

[coolcity]

The usual matchday crap on here. Lots of credit has to go to Newcastle, who have taken the game to City, Very rare that you see that, when you do it's usually a toss up who wins it. Nothing to do with apathy, no intensity, being sloppy or whatever else you want to call it. We're just playing a team who are up for it.

 

[SleepingBlueTiger]

Hoping Newcastle will tire 2nd half. Mahrez against tired legs could be the difference in late game.

 

[citymad]

Walker is having a nightmare.
Never seen him play so badly

Tbh he’s up against a very good, hungry player. Giving him a tough time and having him on toast.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Foden gets hooked again. The replays caught Pep’s reaction when Phil shot instead of passing - he was livid and that was even whilst it was 1-0. Now that it’s 1-2 and gone to pot, it’s only going to add to Pep’s rage with him.

None of that Newcastle performance happens if Foden squares that ball to make it 0-2. It gave them a massive boost not to go 0-2 down and it grew from there.

Pep was fuming with him again.