Newcastle (H) Post Match Thread

[The Preacher]

I thought Laporte was excellent today to be honest.

Me, too. He and Stones are going to become an awesome partnership.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

I thought Laporte was excellent today to be honest.

Seems some of our support smoke spice whilst watching the game.

 

[Neville Kneville]

We were a bit arrogant at 1-0 today imo (and also Aguero at 2-1, shameful). Newcastle scored due to relying on us, trying to entertain the paying public.

Otherwise we did the job against a team who were happy to play the same a goal down, as they would have a goal up.

i wonder how many points these kind of boring ****s have won, by playing that way, against us or anyone, compared to actually trying to win points.

I recon it's not many.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Fernandinho shite again.

Only barged blokes twice his size out of the way, time & again, stopped Newcastle winning 57 free fucking headers & filled every fucking gap our completely attacking overloaded team needed filling, in order to function.

But he gave the ball away a few times, unlike our other midfielders, who were all brilliant at both ends.

So let's drop him.

For fucks sake.

I'd lve some of you fucking lot to put that idea to Stones & Laporte.

Plus, he was our only midfielder in the first half. Sterling and Mahrez out wide and Silva was part of a front three with Jesus and Aguero.

Thought he did pretty well in the circumstances.

 

[Thomas Hearns]

Didn’t play well. Mahrez was disappointing but probably this is down to lack of familiarity with our pattern of play. Ferna was way off his game again.

Jesus hasn’t trained on and increasingly looks like a useful squad member but short of top class.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Plus, he was our only midfielder in the first half. Sterling and Mahrez out wide and Silva was part of a front three with Jesus and Aguero.

Thought he did pretty well in the circumstances.

He made a few bad choices in possession, literally A FEW.

He made lods of fucking brilliant ones & was, as you say, the sole person responsible for the main part of City's midfield, attacking & defending, & is probably the ony player most people know about, on Earth, who is capable of doing that job, as it was done today.

Which other player can do, that variety of jobs ?

 

[Phil1]

First half looked disjointed and wasn’t helped by basic errors.
Second half much improved due to changes and result was never in doubt.
Should have scored 5 in truth.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

He made a few bad choices in possession, literally A FEW.

He made lods of fucking brilliant ones & was, as you say, the sole person responsible for the main part of City's midfield, attacking & defending, & is probably the ony player most people know about, on Earth, who is capable of doing that job, as it was done today.

Which other player can do, that variety of jobs ?

We lacked our controlling midfielders. Ilkay and Bernardo coming on made us secure.

 

[Neville Kneville]

We lacked our controlling midfielders. Ilkay and Bernardo coming on made us secure.

I don't think 'controlling' was part of the plan for midfield, it was 9 players try to unpark the bus & Fernandinho try to run around fixing everything else, everywhere.

When I read comments about him, on here, I can understand why so many people don't realise how good Colin Bell was.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I don't think 'controlling' was part of the plan for midfield, it was 9 players try to unpark the bus & Fernandinho try to run around fixing everything else, everywhere.

When I read comments about him, on here, I can understand why so many people don't realise how good Colin Bell was.

When they came on, I think it was, as before that, we had our "try to run around the parked bus" players on.

Mahrez, Sterling and Silva were supposed to be the creative sparks and Jesus and Sergio scoring.

We didn't recycle the ball well because Bernardo and Ilkay weren't there. When they came on, we did better.

I understand why Pep started with the formers, but Jesus in particular wasn't atnhis best today and Mahrez is still finding his feet and possibly trying too hard.

Fernandinho was on his own in midfield in the first half and he had to make sure the counter attacks were stopped before thinking about anything else