Newcastle United (A) | Post Match thread

[eversince 76]

Lots of top teams will drop points at Newcastle. And won’t be able to get back after 3-1 down in the 2nd half.
We can’t win all games and sometimes you need to accept it and give credit to the opponent.

The development of Newcastle is interesting to see. With Howe they already made clear it wouldn’t be all big names. And it continued with the players they got in. Not too many. Not the big names. Just about right and fitting the team standards.

Newcastle will be a top 6 team soon. Meaning one of the current top 6 will be out. And whoever replaces the old so called top 4 is fine by me.

As for us today. It was difficult. And again we showed tremendous spirit in fighting back from 3-1 down. Well done.

 

[Phoenix900000]

Considering how poor we played I will take this result to be honest

 

[mat]

Would we. The barcodes would have played 9 in the box to preserve a point.

I'm convinced we'd have broke them.

Two "super Sunday" matches where VAR decided the result.

 

[christened at st marks]

good point in the end

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Look, sometimes you've just got to hold your hands up. Saint-Maximin is an on-off player, and today he was on, as in full throttle on. Pope can't distribute to save his life, but he can stop a shot.
I'll take that. We fight again. Chelsea tonked, Liverpool to be tonked by the rags (I don't think…). Nah, I'll take it.

 

[cookster]

Wasn’t a red card for me. Yellow was right. It was a reckless challenge that stopped an attack, the epitome of a yellow in the laws of the game.

It wasn’t dangerous.

He was out of control.

 

[DATOIA]

Guys one question.. Did we miss Jack Grealish today ? :D

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Foden shite another chance to square it and he didn’t. Like I said we didn’t have a striker we kept crossing now we have a striker and can’t cross. I also don’t understand the no subs part. Just confusing with Alvarez and mahrez on the bench surely they could have helped

At 0-1 we were looking in total control and if Foden squares that ball to Haaland to make it 0-2 (he had an open fucking net!). That changed the game as it gave them a massive boost not going 0-2 down, everything good for Newcastle and bad for us stemmed from that moment.

Simply not good enough from Foden.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Also, that is a clear red card. It's endangering the safety of the opponent and I hope the club demand a full explanation as to why the VAR official recommended a review, and effectively pressured the (relatively inexperienced) referee into changing his mind when he clearly didn't want to.

 

[cucumberman]

will take 1 point all things considered.

Newcastle was all over us and fair dos.

 

[wahablue]

Walker,Rhodri,Foden we’re dross.

 

[sh249]

point gained. poor for lengthy period, but showed decent fight. need to cut out the sloppiness.

 

[Mariosfireworks]

Never seen Pep’s tactics failing so badly ever. Walker is probably the least technically gifted player in the entire squad and Pep play him inverted, allowing potenitally the best counter attacking winger in the league acres of space. All three goals happened through St.Maximin racing down the left side. I’ll take a point, after being 3-1 down, but feel we could easily have won it

Could have if haaland takes that chance at the end and the 1 on 1 he had with the keeper

 

[Brewster's millions]

Even being two down, we really should have won that match. The red card being overturned was a disgraceful decision and the next time someone has their leg broken by a bad challenge, we need to call this out.

Seemed to stop playing with 10-15 minutes left, and a couple of substitutions could have made the difference. Gundogan in particular looked knackered and I think Mahrez running at their defence could have got us something at the end.

Bigger picture though is that we’re still not properly fit, we can’t play inverted full backs when the opposition play with wingers, and we need to buy a proper full back before the end of the window. Once Haaland is up and running though we’ll be probably win it.

Going to avoid the tele now though as they’ll be an avalanche of bullshit about how wonderful Newcastle are and what a genius Eddie Howe is. Newcastle are in fact a shit team, Eddie Howe is actually a gormless twat and they caught us on a really bad day.

 

[Revolver]

Players are not machines. They will have an off day. We can’t win every game. We lost our in form centre half half way through the first half.

Against a team on the up and form wise the third best team this calendar year who treated this like a cup final the lads did great to come from 2 down I am happy with the result.

Well done Newcastle. Great support and their team did them proud.

But it’s great being City fan.

 

[applecentral]

Did well to get back to get a point but that was a poor performance overall.

Individually and as a unit we were all over the place. Everyone running away from each other, spaces too large between players, too many long passes, too narrow in attack and defence, making too many wrong choices and the biggest standout was how much harder they worked than us for a good hour of the game at least.

But a point where we could easily have lost.

Otherwise ok?

 

[blueabdi]

We struggled against 1 guy. We needed focus.

 

[Gumzy97]

Front three next week if everyone's fit should be,

Grealish-Haaland-Mahrez


Grealish and Haaland have signs of a partnership blooming should capitalise on it.

 

[Beanhead]

Anytime you are 3-1 down away against a semi decent team and walk away with a point is a good day.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

2 points dropped woeful today

Woeful? Newcastle gave a superb account of themselves. Sometimes we have to acknowledge the opposition's quality, and the geordies were top quality, especially in the first half.