Newcastle United (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

Saddleworth2 said:
We are spoilt by years of unbelievable players. Some of the breaks in the second half I was left thinking my god what would Kevin or David or Leroy done with that chance. You are right though, another season or so of playing together and they will be fine.
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In the dying minutes of last night's match, I had visions of Kev shithousing at the corner flag to waste time to see the match out.
That's what Kev would have done.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
A man that's going under the radar in a number of these posts. Bernardo Silva, who for nearly nine years has run his socks off all over the pitch, maintaining possession, giving us options, harrying, playing short cunning balls, playing defensive midfield or out on the wing or wherever Pep has wanted him to. He did it last night, for the umpteenth time. When he goes, we'll understand what we had. He's not quite up there with Merlin and Kev in his skills, but in his importance to the team he's been every bit as important.
Since this may be his last season, I'll say it again, and I'll keep repeating the accolade — a great servant to the club, and a very fine footballer.
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He just has different skills to Kev and Merlin.
 
alexmcity said:
Rodri's performances are often a level or two above what people perceive in real time. Guess what he does looks easy.
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Agreed. It was also fabulous to see him walking round the pitch after the game; he was noticeably the one leading the applause of the supporters, making that connection and commitment. He knew what a big game and result that was.
You love to see it.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I'll run through the full match replay on the OS and get back on this one. It was in the second half. I give full credit to Newcastle for giving us a hell of a game, but my clear impression was that they had been told — or had collectively decided, more probably — to rough us up much more in the second half. They were sharing out the yellow cards very cunningly.
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Yep Joelinton came on as a substitute and literally fouled committed four fouls in quick succession, him and Burn a pair of cloggers or always seem to be against us.
 
platty7 said:
It's the 2nd balls you have to win if you are going long q,too many times we are on our heels reacting rather than anticipating.but we really aren't built for it
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Agree but we not backing up Haaland with the long balls! It was called kick and rush because you went long then your midfield run to meet the knock ons win the second ball! Haaland has max one when Newcastle had 2/3 players! This long ball by Donno should always be down the line long have Haaland spin run for the ball! The you got a better chance to win it or go out for an throw in..
 
Chappie said:
Point 1 if you need to ask, you need to find another sport to watch.
Point 2 yes
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no need to be a dick about it. i watched it and i can remember thinking yellow a few times with Burn. particularly the one at the side of the pitch my point was i couldn't remember any specifics today. or timings compared to the bernardo one. thanks for being singularly unhelpful on point 1.
 
ancoats said:
No, Newcastle team ran 0.5km more than us, we 113.51km Newcastle 114.05km

Yes, the result is the major outcome and was needed
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BBC had us at more, albeit less at sprinting. I dunno, I really don't think we looked unfit last night. We matched one of the most athletic teams. Haaland was up and down, Nico in the middle looked comfortable.
 

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Stato said:
I thought that was obvious tbh. Kush started warming up as soon as Dias picked up the yellow.
That sub doesn't happen if Dias hadn't got one
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The other obvious thing was that Dias got the yellow because he has no pace. For me, that was more significant.
 
waspish said:
As fans we have to realise we ain’t that treble winning team anymore and the premier football has changed and PGMOL to both have decided to let “contact” in games go, let players drag players down from corners! You watch how Newcastle played last night for me it was a throw back to the 80/90/00’s with every set piece Newcastle had they put all there players in our box and went for % football! We also for some reason kept hoofing it from Donno for me that’s fair enough but if that is the instructions you have to win at least 70% of those long balls or you will be under a lot of pressure! Newcastle made it like a cup game they never stopped pressing running!

We have 6 away games left yeah we better than early season but our away record is W6 D3 L4 so now coming into the must win games wonder how many we will win or points we pick up out of 18 points?
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It would have made more sense to hoof it toward Haaland rather than Marmoush.
 
Vic said:
It would have made more sense to hoof it toward Haaland rather than Marmoush.
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It’s was mainly been hit long to Haaland when you go long you kick it in to space wide then there is a chase back to goal with burns up your arse and referee letting Burns do what the fuck he likes no wonder it came back the ball nearly every time!
 
Marvin. said:
They should address corner routines that have become quite farcical. When Arsenal push and block it's 'clever', and now these tactics are being copied.
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We should adopt what Rosenior and Chelsea did , leave three players on the half way line and they have to leave three back , less congestion in the six yard box , give Big Don chance to claim crosses and just leave our big guys Haaland , Dias , Guehi , O'Reilly and a couple more to defend corners. They only score from corners because of the congestion and chaos they cause and force own goals and mistakes , they really are a shite football team.
Leave the midgets like Bernardo , Doku and Foden on the half way line
 
.db. said:
Just watched the game back. Newcastle proper went for it and I’d argue that’s the best they’ve ever played at the Etihad (don’t think they’ve ever actually won here).

We didn’t half mess up some great opportunities to put the game to bed and our football was scruffy and not very in-sync at times. We made things very difficult for ourselves late on by not keeping possession high up the pitch well enough and either not trusting ourselves to pin Newcastle back by just keeping the ball and going back to Donnarumma who just punted balls up that Newcastle won back or by trying silly high-difficulty passes that weren’t on and giving Newcastle the ball back, and there were situations right at the death where we just needed to get the ball in the corner but tried to go for goal and lost the ball… but the effort we put into that game was superb.

Haaland was everywhere, up front, centre back, right wing. Rodri and BSilva were also all over the pitch. I thought Rodri played well when watching live but I don’t think I’d noticed just how well he really played until watching it back, he had a top game.

Nunes also played very well. Khusanov when he came on was a monster. Cherki’s first time passing and positive creative play created some great attacking opportunities.

O’Reilly’s goals were superb and he very nearly got a hattrick. He was excellent in the first half, he was a real threat and hard to get the ball off. He’s starting to use his size and strength really well. But he was a lot less involved in the second half.

Guehi was solid again. Showed a bit of lack of pace a few times but his defensive capabilities to make up for it were very good.

Donnarumma’s kicking was a bit poor and the ball over the top to was on for the front three numerous times but his execution was mostly poor (Haaland had a bit of a go at him after one of them). I’d love for him to work on that.

There were some great moves by Marmoush and Semenyo but also some very erratic stuff from them both.

But overall, that was a game played with great resilience from the whole team.
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it and I’d argue that’s the best they’ve ever played at the Etihad (don’t think they’ve ever actually won here).

Beat us 2-0 in league cup in 2014
 
Great result. Terrible second half yet again, which is the biggest take away for me. We had no real structure in the second half, so could not play out as we were in the first half. The effort was there but the implementation of the tactics wasn’t- this is why Gundo and Kova type of player is so important for us and shows we are missing that type of player. Not sure what Pep can do as his message hits in the first half but seems to be ignored or not possible to implement.
 
The fans were also brilliant last night. Only a couple of things were missing.....an Erling goal for a times 3 of the crowd shouting HAALAND & one of the players taking it into the corner & kicking it of a Newcastle player a few times for a few City goalkicks to make the crowd cheer & roar with laughter.
 
bernard o'silver said:
Yep Joelinton came on as a substitute and literally fouled committed four fouls in quick succession, him and Burn a pair of cloggers or always seem to be against us.
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They got five yellows, to our two (both deserved, by the way). Two of them were their subs, of whom Joelinton, as you say. It looked premeditated to me.
Burn should definitely have gone.
 
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