Newcastle United (H) - Sat 15th Feb, 15:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[eyalluvitt]

City 1-3 Newcastle
Halland 43
Isaac 84, 89, 90+4

After Pep subs on Rico & Gundo on 83

 

[eyalluvitt]

I'd play Nunes in midfield on Saturday, He's not the standard required at the club but the one thing he can offer is his running ability, Something that can't be said for our other midfield players.

Nico Gonzalez, Nico O Reilly and Nunes...

Players with legs, Can't be much worse than what we are watching.

Exactly this, if only you or I had Peps job

 

[wattle]

………………………..Ederson……………………….
……………….Dias…………………Ake……………..
……Stones……………Nico………Gvardiol……..
Savinho………….….Foden………………..Doku
………………Marmoush……Haaland……………

 

[uwe rosler 28]

That’s very good news if true. He has consistently taken the game to us and his aggression is hard for us to counter, especially minus Rodri.

Yes he's out maybe burn and botman too if trippier plays we have to target him.

 

[YatesA]

Forget the second leg. It’s irrelevant now, full focus on the league.

Ederson; Khusanov Stones Dias Gvardiol; Nico Bernardo; Savinho Marmoush Foden; Haaland

Exact team I'd start

 

[YatesA]

Was looking forward to this when we were 2 1 up tonight thinking the boys will be full of confidence. Now Newcastle will be licking their lips at playing us and pressing us into mistakes. Let's see who is fit for weekend and try and get a win and push up in the league.

I swear I've read this exact post before lol

 

[willipp]

City 1-3 Newcastle
Halland 43
Isaac 84, 89, 90+4

Great day for my fantasy team at least.

 

[ChrisNUFC]

Joelinton and possibly Gordon and Botman missing for us. Regardless of your recent challenges I'm still expecting our annual drubbing. Hoping we can at least get a goal this time though.

 

[lionheart]

City 1-3 Newcastle
Halland 43
Isaac 84, 89, 90+4

You can be sure that Isaak won't still be on the pitch after 80 minutes. More likely Murphy or Gordon to score late on.

 

[paulchapo]

Unfortunately for us Newcastle are bang in form at the moment. Pity we didn't play them closer to the Wembley final.

 

[ChrisNUFC]

You can be sure that Isaak won't still be on the pitch after 80 minutes. More likely Murphy or Gordon to score late on.

Not so sure on Isak. He only came on for 60 seconds in the cup so he's essentially had 10 days rest following the Arsenal semi final. Think he'll last the full game to be honest, although Wilson is "fit" again so more cover available now if needed for us.

 

[Damanino]

lets start bedding in our new players. we need to get top4 as a minimum this season but also bed in the new faces. if they need to make mistakes while getting used to PL do it this season its already gone to shit.
rather them making some mistakes than see Kova, Gundo, Lewis, Akanji, Ederson etc do it the 20th time...

 

[ninjamonkey]

They're set up to completely fuck us up. Could be really brutal. We'll get dominated in midfield, they will press us into dozens of turnovers deep in our own half, they will hit us quickly and they'll comfortably defend our walking pace "attack"

No confidence in pep to change things anymore so we'll play the exact same way that has seen us win just 5 games all season against the top 14 sides and I expect that figure to remain the same for a while.

The 11 don't really matter in truth.

Ederson
Nunes
Khusanov
Dias
Gvardiol
Nico
Kovacic
Bernardo
Savinho
Doku
Haaland

 

[Realazio]

What do you think guys, will pep rest some of the guys for newcastle, or put new ones in, and the usual agains real, or put new ones agains real? Im intrested to know what do you guys think would be the "best" idea

 

[Gabriel]

After last night’s card-free Tuesday, I can confidently predict that there will be a smattering of yellows on Saturday.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

I thought Arsenal bullied us a bit at their place. After watching both legs of the LC semi final, I thought Newcastle bullied Arsenal in both games, they are about as physical a team as you get nowadays.

 

[tommybooth]

I should be OK to play rb!

 

[pbueno16]

Why is the second leg irrelevant? We were only beaten by two lapses in concentration.

Thankfully we have professionals who will always believe in themselves

They could get Rudiger and Alaba back in time. If we couldn’t pile it on yesterday against that stitched together backline, we’re not going to score with two of their best proper defenders returning to the lineup.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

They're set up to completely fuck us up. Could be really brutal. We'll get dominated in midfield, they will press us into dozens of turnovers deep in our own half, they will hit us quickly and they'll comfortably defend our walking pace "attack"

No confidence in pep to change things anymore so we'll play the exact same way that has seen us win just 5 games all season against the top 14 sides and I expect that figure to remain the same for a while.

The 11 don't really matter in truth.

Ederson
Nunes
Khusanov
Dias
Gvardiol
Nico
Kovacic
Bernardo
Savinho
Doku
Haaland

If I have to watch Bernado running around like a headless chicken again, pressing whilst no one else bothere, I am going to combust!

 

[Omar the King]

We will beat the living daylight outta them. 6-0