Newcastle (A) | Wed 27th Sept | EFL Cup | Post Match Thread

Anyone who watched the game can see the difference in Newcastle attitude between the two halves. It was night and day.

Couldn't get near us in the first half and well out of the game....unfortunately we couldn't take advantage.

Half-time, Howe has a word with the ref......asks "Can we kick them now?" Ref agrees and the rest is history. Despite that hustle and bustle of the first 15mins of the 2nd half and the mistake for the goal.....they weren't really that good.

I think the new found energy shocked us for a bit and the fact the ref gave us nothing (or them yellows) played in the the Barcodes hands.

I have to admit....I was routing for Phillips to put in some sort of performance and take his chance......but he's just not at this level.
 
eastmanc said:
Don't understand what sky were going on about with the 'if you would have seen the sides at the beginning of the game you wouldn't have give Newcastle a chance'. City had at best a scratch team out there. Pep more or less said before the game that the League Cup this season isn't a priority . His team selection reflected that.
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Peps body language in the game was one of relaxation till the officials got under his skin, he would’ve loved the first half control & performances of Bobb etc. like you say, the sly narrative of Newcastle reserves against the treble winners was a joke, both sides were much changed
 
eastmanc said:
Don't understand what sky were going on about with the 'if you would have seen the sides at the beginning of the game you wouldn't have give Newcastle a chance'. City had at best a scratch team out there. Pep more or less said before the game that the League Cup this season isn't a priority . His team selection reflected that.
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If its not how much money we have spent on the team or bench its the bullshit we have a stronger team and should win easy even though we made 8 changes

Fuck em
 
Literally a game of two halves. Bossed the first half, bullied the second. They probably deserved to win. I don't think pep wanted it that much, but you can tell he hated losing.

Bobb did well as did Doku when he came on. Grealish was poor, but I won't kick him for it as he's coming back from injury.

Can't dislike the Geordies at all and I hope they win it now and batter the rags. I like Eddie Howe. I reckon if he was Spanish or whatever people would think different of him. We have a strange relationship in this country with English managers, everyone seems to see them as boring. I think he will win them a trophy sooner rather than later and you can see he's a decent coach by how some of the players he has have become so much better since he took over.

Anyway finished wanking him off now....

I was gutted we lost. I can't often get away tickets and we never lose when I watch city. Can't win everytime though eh
 
Before the game I told my Mrs. that we would likely lose the game.
Watching it, my take on it is as follows:

Bobb took the challenge well and played like he has played for the 1st team for a long time. I want to see him have more game time with the big guns around him, he's another special talent.
Rico didn't have his best game but was solid enough especially as he was their target man, getting hacked at every opportunity in the 2nd half.
It was a game that Grealish will want to forget very quickly. He was predictable and barely tried to take on anybody.
Kalvin is not Rodri and he was nowhere near that standard. He wears the blue shirt so I will always get behind him, I hope that was an off day for him.
Newcastle didn't turn up 1st half but bringing on Guimaraes and Gordon flipped the game on its head, and they picked up the tempo which had the desired effect.
Joelinton is a bully who should have had multiple bookings, it was so obvious.
The ref looked like he had taken a bung from the barcodes.
The commentary was awful and anti-City from the kickoff. Why did they have to mention how much players cost and that we were a full strength team, wtf?

I'm not bothered we are out but it gave some players 90 minutes which they needed.
 
Bit disappointed to to out so early but to be quite honest 5 or so games less is probably a godsend.

Newcastle just wanted it more than us that second half and got the rub of the green, I think pep leaving Haaland on the bench clearly shows our priorities.

No idea what the ref was up to, second game in a row we've had someone who let things get out of hand in an otherwise non nasty encounter. His refusal to pull up players for fouls early on let things get heated. Particular should out to his insane logic of booking a Newcastle player for kicking the ball away in the second half, after letting four of them get away with it in the first. I do think Phillips was lucky with that challenge though, with var you could just see them focusing on the contact rather than the context and showing red.
 
AshtonBlueMooner said:
Put that game to bed and move on. Not at our best but that’s symptomatic of the amount of changes made. Get off our players backs, they’re pulling the shirt on and doing their best, regardless of whether we believe they’re good enough or not. Pep clearly thinks they’re good enough and that will do for me. Some of our ‘support’ drives me to distraction. We’re one City family and we should act like that. We certainly did when we were at our worst and we absolutely should be now that we’re in dreamland. Keep the faith. CTID
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I can't overstate how much I agree with this. God but we come over as a bunch of spoilt mardarses, sometimes. Didn't think it would come to that — not with City fans.
The first ten pages of any post-match thread should be discounted, especially when we lose. They are purely and simply about venting — “we were shit”, “Phillips was shit”, “that was shit”. We weren't shit, Phillips wasn't shit (although I now don't think he has the level to play at City, but then the level is the highest in the world at present), and that wasn't shit. We lost — 1-0 to a pretty good team taking part in the Champions League, at their own gaff. Not good, pretty disappointing… sure. We played some very good, controlled football for most of the first half. A couple of goals could have gone in, and it would have changed the game. Then they got in our faces in the second half (as you would expect), and it paid dividends for about fifteen minutes or so. That happens.
As for the media noticing when we get beaten, well, I can't say I'm all that surprised. Because, other than a semi-meaningless charity match and an end-of-season match when the league was done and dusted, we haven't been beaten for months and months. Not by anybody — not Bayern, not Real, not Arsenal — not in anything that has counted. So yes, it's a big deal on the very rare occasions that it happens. Because we are now the ogre, and everybody, without exception, likes to see the ogre trip up from time to time.
Anyway, it's my own fault. I shall stick to my usual rule of not looking at the post-match thread until the next day, and starting at about p. 20, in future.
 
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