EFL Cup | Semi-Finals | 7/8 Jan & 5/6 Feb '25

[TShed]

Come on the toon, smash these fuckin southern cryarses.

Geordies tearing cockneys apart again

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Football always finds a way to bite cocky players on their arse.

Skelly leaving Murphy for their goal, 3 days after thinking he’s the man.

 

[chesterbells]

Good half for Newcastle exactly what they would have wanted. Got the goal and kept a clean sheet, arsenal are getting irate already, just needs a little spark in the second half for them to lose their shit entirely.

Look how vulnerable arsenal have been to direct attacks. Haaland offere everything Isak does and more, savinho offers everything Gordon does and more. If we had passed forward and quickly instead of instantly passing backwards followed by a dozen sideways passes we might have create some chances. Not saying we have to be as deep and route 1 as newcastle are but we have the capabilities to mix the game up and be extremely effective yet we never do. It's just infuriating to see lesser teams do exactly what we didn't.

Agreed, but they seem to have more pace and desire over short distances, and seem to be more robust in the 50/50s than we are.

 

[ninjamonkey]

When Southgate was giving caps to the likes of Mings and Dunk, would Dan Burn have done any worse.

He was playing left back at that time and there was plenty of chatter about him being in the mix for a shout.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

Newcastle should take the hit and break any PSR rules to keep Isak. It’s worth the hit and the rules will be dead in the long run.

Build your team and sod everyone else.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

We did that v Chelsea, the issue v Arsenal was the quality of the passing.

Not really we didn’t. Ederson hit it twice to him whereas the Newcastle midfield and defenders are looking at him as an option very frequently. That’s also opening up a huge space for Gordon to run into.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Not really we didn’t. Ederson hit it twice to him whereas the Newcastle midfield and defenders are looking at him as an option very frequently. That’s also opening up a huge space for Gordon to run into.

Arsenal are far more attacking tonight though as they have to score multiple times.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Agreed, but they seem to have more pace and desire over short distances, and seem to be more robust in the 50/50s than we are.

Absolutely. Their pressing completely shits all over ours, they're doing to arsenal what arsenal did to us and I suspect they'll do it to us next weekend too.

Look at how hard Gordon is working to make sure nwaneri cannot cut inside onto his favoured foot, not a chance you'd see foden doing that for us, look at Trippier busting his arse to actually stop a cross, when was the last time any of our players did that? They defend as units, we defend as individuals where everything is 1v1 and a single duel lost slices us open completely. It's night and day difference.

 

[bluemoon32]

Agreed, but they seem to have more pace and desire over short distances, and seem to be more robust in the 50/50s than we are.

Most of our players wouldnt win a 50/50 with a fucking teddy bear

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Arsenal are far more attacking tonight though as they have to score multiple times.

But we still give defenders far too much time to get set sometimes. I’m not suggesting turning into Wimbledon but mixing it up a little might help.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Barcodes will give us a game.

The bastards.

 

[cupsforcockups]

Arse foundations built on sand when the going gets tough they fold.Season over for them,let’s watch them go another season with no centre forward and no prem title

 

[freshie]

 

[cheekybids]

Not really we didn’t. Ederson hit it twice to him whereas the Newcastle midfield and defenders are looking at him as an option very frequently. That’s also opening up a huge space for Gordon to run into.

Arsenal are chasing the game & playing a high line but I thought we did it more v Chelsea but it led to goals twice. That said you’ve still got to mix it up.

 

[YaYa's Left Peg]

Barcodes will give us a game.

The bastards.

Stalybridge Celtic would give us a game at the moment pal!

 

[deano ou812]

Good half for Newcastle exactly what they would have wanted. Got the goal and kept a clean sheet, arsenal are getting irate already, just needs a little spark in the second half for them to lose their shit entirely.

Look how vulnerable arsenal have been to direct attacks. Haaland offere everything Isak does and more, savinho offers everything Gordon does and more. If we had passed forward and quickly instead of instantly passing backwards followed by a dozen sideways passes we might have create some chances. Not saying we have to be as deep and route 1 as newcastle are but we have the capabilities to mix the game up and be extremely effective yet we never do. It's just infuriating to see lesser teams do exactly what we didn't.

Unfortunately we seem to get into positions of attack and take the easy option pass sideways or back but seem sometimes fearful to actually play the ball forward and into the box ..

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Barcodes will give us a game.

The bastards.

Hopefully not even Pep is stubborn enough to play a defensive line in their half with Isak Gordon and Murphy playing…

 

[ninjamonkey]

Barcodes will give us a game.

The bastards.

Reality is the opposite, we might give them a game if we've got everybody up and running.

 

[skillman]

Hope Arsenal don’t get too downhearted if they lose. At least they won their other cup final on Sunday…

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

Will say it’s a bit premature for gloating considering Arsenal are perfectly capable of scoring four in short succession.