Newcastle (a) post match thread

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Newcastle were never really in the game but took their chances when they got them, City thought all they had to do was turn up, score 1 then piss about for the rest of the match and then bugger off home with 3 points. Doesn't work like that. I hope Pep gave them it tight in the dressing room at FT

Mountainous task of catching and overtaking Liverpool now!

The worrying thing is what he said at HT because it made no difference at all and we lost the 2nd half 2-0!

 

[warringtonblue]

I think Pep had to take De Bruyne off but in hindsight the timing was wrong. Their crowd was suddenly up for it and our players sank. After he went off no one got control of the game. Not Silva, not Bernardo and not Fernandinho. A midfield three that good cannot all play so poorly.

We should have been 2 up and De Bruyne not booked. Instead that mistake is the catalyst for the loss. But we still should have scored another. I don't know why we keep throwing games away when winning. A lack of killer instinct, complacency...something isn't right.

We will not catch Liverpool now. Three tough games coming up, even if we win all three the gap is 4pts and they have a game in hand. The pressure is off them. Their game tonight is suddenly a lot easier and they can play more relaxed and open the 7pt lead again. Our chance to put real pressure on them over the next couple of weeks has gone.

Of course we will keep pushing but personally we need to now prioritise the CL and FA Cup. We have the chance to go all out for the CL this season. Top4 is a cert so lets rotate for the league. Blood Foden and Garcia some more and be fresh and ready to push on in the CL.

What on earth makes you think we are good enough to win the CL? I’d say that was as close to our strongest possible team last night

 

[Indaparkside]

What on earth makes you think we are good enough to win the CL? I’d say that was as close to our strongest possible team last night

One off games are different pal we have the class. It’s our year

 

[warringtonblue]

One off games are different pal we have the class. It’s our year

Unfortunately up until the final it’s a 2 legged affair

 

[Indaparkside]

Unfortunately up until the final it’s a 2 legged affair

What I meant was we’re quite capable of turning anyone over especially at home keep the faith. Got a good feeling this year m8

 

[SWPISHOME]

What on earth makes you think we are good enough to win the CL? I’d say that was as close to our strongest possible team last night

Of course we're in with a shout to win the Champions League, Every top team in Europe suffers surprise defeats. After we beat Liverpool 2-1 and you were asked if that team could win the champions league what would your answer be?
On our day we're good enough to beat any team in Europe.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

We have been sussed

Lower teams just put 8 or 9 players in the box and there is no room to play through them with tippy tappy football . We then resort to crosss and we have 1 striker who we expect to score against 5 or 6 defenders .

They are happy to clear for a corner as we are shit at corners

They then get a break and score . Leicester palace and Newcastle played exactly the same way and we carried on doing the same shit that doesn’t work.

You can’t turn a defence that is sat on its 6 yard box

 

[warringtonblue]

Of course we're in with a shout to win the Champions League, Every top team in Europe suffers surprise defeats. After we beat Liverpool 2-1 and you were asked if that team could win the champions league what would your answer be?
On our day we're good enough to beat any team in Europe.

I understand what your saying but that now our 4th “surprise” defeat in about 6 weeks

 

[ctid1894]

Pep could of played Foden & Sandler and give Dave & Fern a rest, we have a 25 man squad he needs to use it.

And if he had there would be uproar on here if we didn’t win 9-0.

 

[SWPISHOME]

I understand what your saying but that now our 4th “surprise” defeat in about 6 weeks

I think it's safe to say we're in a bad patch, Seen as we havent went through a spell like this in about 2 years!
Last night showed along with the Leicester and Palace performances that you can't just turn up and expect to walk away with three points. Personally I think all those defeats we didn't work hard enough didn't look like we had hunger to put those teams to bed even after leading in each of them.
For some reason last night we didn't look like a side that had 7 wins on the bounce.
Pep will turn it around he's too good of a manager not to, He's a serial winner, He'll be just as pissed off as much as we are.