Newcastle (a) post match thread

The cup games have glossed over the league form. We played well against Liverpool and beat a ten man wolves easily but since December we have lost 4 league games, 3 to
Clubs who lets face it are average at best all whilst being 1-0 up. The next 3 fixtures are all difficult. Be interesting to see how we respond

Spot on.

Maybe the answer is a need to be tactful and have a plan B eg change stategy let them come on to us and resort to counter attacking.
 
I dont think the defeat all came down to KDB coming off. We should of still had more than enough to see the game out.
We werent good enough tonight as a team.
Oh for sure not saying it did, but taking him and Leroy off made us go from bad to worse.
 
There’s still 14 games to play. Who’s to say Liverpool won’t have a few shocking defeats? I’m not saying they will absolutely drop points, but we can’t just give up on the title.
Problem is even if Liverpool drop points we are not closing the gap on them cos we are dropping points. Tonight was the night to not drop points and we failed.
 
Win our next three, and the best the dippers can be us 4 ahead before they go to the rags, we were poor tonight but a long way to go, just hope that is the wake up call the players need! Keep believing.
 
Name a manager who wouldn’t sub KDB off at that moment. It’s a huge risk to leave him on there, and personally I’d prefer Bernardo to the potential of playing with 10 men. I’m sure De Bruyne was disappointing to come off, but he understands that any small foul and he would’ve seen red.
That’s a silly question really as all managers leave players on bookings on every game. Him getting sent off wasn’t a forgone conclusion.
 
We get back to basics tomorrow in training
Dave needs to have a good look at himself . He's been a passenger of late. Where was the fight ,the will tonight from most of them ?
Need to find a settled 11 in prem and CL. Cups will take care of themselves. Pep must find that ingredient again because 2 important league games coming up . There is no rest.
Night
 
Then who is the problem? I still think he should catch a few of them. I'm being realistic about Townsends rocket but I'm talking about the rest. Penalties are saved all the time, and his positioning is purely poor at times.
Tonight the problem was Walker playing Rondon onside, and Ferna giving the pen away. I can talk you through all of the other goals if you like.
Point is that a team playing with 75% possession in most games is unlikely to be blaming the keeper, unless he’s chucking it in. Which he’s not.
 
I do think Newcastle deserve some credit. They got their shape and formation absolutely spot on, gave us no real space between the lines which made Silva totally ineffective and kept KDB out of the game. Our wide players had zero impact and Newcastle defended really well. They also had Rondon who was a real handful all night.

Doesn’t paper over how bad we were and that things were largely down to ourselves, but they do deserve credit.
Totally agree. As bad as our football was tonight they played it well and made it very tight for us. They deserve some credit.
 

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