Newcastle United (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Crooked_rain]

Not bad at all. Pretty solid all around job.

Great game by Foden and Julian.

We gotta slap the clowns giving Pep an earful thinking they know better than Pep!

BTW Pep is sending a clear message:

The team is fricking exhausted and he still does not trust Kalvin Philips. If he's not getting time now, what is his role?

Yeah it's a shame he can't really trust Phillips because I thought Rodri could have done with being taken off for the last 20 minutes

I thought he started getting uncharacteristically quite sloppy with his play, which you can only put down to fatigue.

 

[SamTheGuru]

Phil Foden is overrated. Haha. Coming of age tonight for Phil

Calm down. :) 10 times better than mid week, but a long way to go yet. :P

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

I was one of the concerned Citizens pre-match, credit where it's due we got the job done.
Quite liked the performance to be honest - gotta score to beat us and that looked unlikely again this evening.

 

[Bill Walker]

Phil Foden is overrated. Haha. Coming of age tonight for Phil

Number of times I read "Foden isn't the answer in midfield" last week. Hope you're all eating humble pie, a fucking massive slice of it. :)

 

[wattle]

Watching from sunny Italy. Perfect day. Phil outstanding. Season shaping performance by him. Kovatic an unbelievably good signing and Gvardiol was superb 2nd half. Some of his No look passes into midfield when under pressure were brilliant and will be a great weapon for us going forward. Rodri and Haaland looked knackered at the end. I love a small squad but we defo need at the very least one in to ease the pressure. No one under performed which is a great sign after the tough week we’ve had. Oh yeh, the ref was a disgrace - but he always is against us whether on the pitch or on VAR

 

[Mick_]

It was men against boys and only one team wanted to win that.

 

[coolcity]

Must get to arsenal in the league now without dropping points

I can never understand comments like this. We're the ones everybody has to outscore in terms of collecting points. Where we are when we get to Arsenal doesn't mean a thing, it's where we are after match 38.

 

[Eccles Blue]

What’s the illustrations on Pep’s tee shirt. I missed the beginning of his interview.

 

[Father Paul]

Thoroughly enjoyable. Foden brilliant in central role and very impressed with Kovacic too.

Rodri excellent as usual until final 10 minutes when you could see he was completely knackered. He seems to run that defensive midfield role all game, every game with no respite. It's disappointing that Calvin Phillips can't be be reliable as a sub to help him out.

Calvin must be sold and replaced immediately. Sorry to have to say it I don't like knocking our players but it is a waste of a shirt. Rodri is going to get a serious injury if he is to be run into the ground again this season.

 

[Bill Walker]

Our defence looks tighter than a constipated ducks arse.......Ace recruitment from City.