Newcastle United (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

First of all, 1 point away at Newcastle is not the end of the world. The result in itself is not particularly good but not a disaster.

With that said, I think its a few things thats a bit worrying:
1 - We are the only team Newcastle have faced this season without them looking significantly worse than their opponent (even if they have managed to steal some decent result so far).
2 - I love Pep (and who am I to question him), but if Sean Dyche was our manager, this is the starting XI he would have chosen today, trying to nick a result. We left all our midfielders that have something to offer in attack on the bench and unsurprisingly we as a result had little to nothing to offer in terms of goal threat. Pep will figure it out going forward, he always does. But I think we showed a little to much respect for Newcastles counter threat, and was willing to give up far too much attacking power of our own trying to reduce it. In my opinion, we should have picked a side trying to go at them instead. We weren't playing prime Barcelona away, we were playing a Newcastle side that got destroyed by Fulham last week and that was missing their best attacker.

Luckily, we have a few "easy" (on paper) fixturers going forward which should give us some time figuring out how to make a Rodri-less team work. Whatever the game plan was today, it wasn't it.

And please, let's stop with this silly not starting Foden thing we are doing. We are already missing key players, we cant keep putting our player of the season on the bench.
 
Thuggery from the first minute. How did Joelinton, Bruno etc stay on the pitch?? We gave the ball away to many times in midfield. Should have won that easily.
Thuggery seems to be the go-to tactic against us these days (as well as breaking up the play with obvious time wasting). Players know full well they are highly unlikely to be sanctioned for a foul in the first 5 minutes of a game, as we saw with Havertz last week and Guimaraes today.
 
Not at all surprised to see the stick Grealish is getting haha

Name me a better player today other than Gvardiol? Grealish was really good today, Referee let him get kicked around the place!

Grow a set of bollocks, No Rodders, No KDB and basically no Foden and yet we are still the team to force the game.

These 19 teams are fucking whimps! Cowardly bastards the lot of them, They've all spent multi millions of pounds and still play like a poor man's Stoke City.

We'll piss this fucking league with or without Rodri.
I like this post.

I’m trying to stay out of Grealish debates but today we saw the guy who was crucial to our treble win. He and Josko can be a great partnership on the left.

Rodri and Kev missing arguably means we were without the world’s two best players; certainly its two best midfield players. We need Kev to get and stay fit.

Phil must have some sort of issue that we do not know about that Pep is managing. He showed signs today that he is on the up.
 
Not deflecting at all

Overall Kyle has done better than what you think has happened.

It's more like you are blaming him for everything that has gone wrong

Sorry
Wtf.
You’re putting words into my mouth.
I’ve blamed him for his poor defensive position, which ultimately led to a penalty being awarded and costing us the goal.
 

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