Newcastle United (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

East Level 2 said:
There was only one team in it for 70 minutes but Newcastle showed slightly more towards the end as we kept losing possession. That may well have been due to tiredness following the game on Wednesday, but we made the wrong choice of pass too often.
Having said that, the defence were excellent and didn't allow Newcastle to benefit from our errors, and we also created chances (Haaland and Foden) during that period.
As for subs, I think Pep prefers tired players who are carrying out his match tactics to changing the plans to accommodate fresh legs. We don't have a lot of like for like options so he kept the shape knowing we had a full week to recover.
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City were gone after 75 mins dug deep and deserved it
 
I'm feeling rather generous this morning as I've just seen the Spurs v Rags highlights and I award Corporal Jones, yet another partially sighted whistling wanker to come to The Etihad, a staggering 2/10 for his inept performance. I award the idiot in the VAR shed who thought the two fouls by Gordon were not worthy of red cards 0/10.

The dirtiest bunch of roughhouse merchants since Athleti were last in Manchester.

I'm informed that VAR doesn't get involved in yellow cards yet the attempted crippling of Dias by Gordon in front of the CB stand he hadn't seen. Nor did I see the lino waving that ornament he carries, and yet he eventually gave the dirty bastard a yellow. How did he arrive at that conclusion unless he gets a word in his ear? We are being

Newcastle were no where near where I'd thought they be - a sort of Arsenal with the dark arts welded to their boots.

Very stout performance from the whole team, and the two lads, Gvardiol and Kovacic, look as though they've been here for ages.

Foden took the midfield by storm and looks back to the form that saw him best in the competition when he was in the U17 England team.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Just thinking back to the game last night; how quiet was Tonali for them? Did absolutely nothing and they were better after he went off.
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Agreed, he looked like he couldn't wait to get rid of the ball and played conservative passes.
 
Nightmare Walking said:
I don't think we give ourselves enough credit.

When you actually had a look at Newcastles first 11 last night, how many would have actually started for us? Not a single player. We were just better all around the pitch and the quality told last night.
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All things being equal yes. However, after travelling to Greece 72 hours earlier & playing in energy sapping 30⁰ heat, & then seeing our bench when the squad was announced, I feared all of this would catch up with us against Newcastle.

Eddie Howe thought so too. On 75 minutes we visibly wilted, albeit we were still mainly controlling things. Howe made a raft of substitutions & kept raising the tempo in the hope we'd splutter to a stop, but we kept going & thankfully saw the match out.

Rodri was fucked, & we had no one on the bench to realistically give him a rest. We've got a week off to rest & recouperate, so hopefully we'll use that time to bring in another two first team starters, for what looks like another gruelling season ahead.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I'm feeling rather generous this morning as I've just seen the Spurs v Rags highlights and I award Corporal Jones, yet another partially sighted whistling wanker to come to The Etihad, a staggering 2/10 for his inept performance. I award the idiot in the VAR shed who thought the two fouls by Gordon were not worthy of red cards 0/10.

The dirtiest bunch of roughhouse merchants since Athleti were last in Manchester.
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I believe Eddie Howe went to Athleti when he was out of work to study them . I think it shows.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I'm feeling rather generous this morning as I've just seen the Spurs v Rags highlights and I award Corporal Jones, yet another partially sighted whistling wanker to come to The Etihad, a staggering 2/10 for his inept performance. I award the idiot in the VAR shed who thought the two fouls by Gordon were not worthy of red cards 0/10.

The dirtiest bunch of roughhouse merchants since Athleti were last in Manchester.

I'm informed that VAR doesn't get involved in yellow cards yet the attempted crippling of Dias by Gordon in front of the CB stand he hadn't seen. Nor did I see the lino waving that ornament he carries, and yet he eventually gave the dirty bastard a yellow. How did he arrive at that conclusion unless he gets a word in his ear? We are being

Newcastle were no where near where I'd thought they be - a sort of Arsenal with the dark arts welded to their boots.

Very stout performance from the whole team, and the two lads, Gvardiol and Kovacic, look as though they've been here for ages.

Foden took the midfield by storm and looks back to the form that saw him best in the competition when he was in the U17 England team.
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Yeah; I wasn't impressed with Newcastle. They had more of the ball in the second half, but did next to nothing with it. How many saves did Eddy have to make? One, that I remember, and that was pretty routine. The Geordies will do well to replicate last season's finish. Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea can't all be as bad again this time around, shirley?
 
Great result given the opposition,injuries and the fact the lads had just been in Athens.Thought our defence looked solid and Phil was excellent Great day(evening!!)
Horrible KO time
 
Great performance under the circumstances given the midweek efforts.
Brilliant atmosphere and great celebrations at the start made sure I lost my voice before kick off.
Foden was outstanding but a big nod for Kovacic; he was excellent. He drove the team forward and his ball retention and passing rhythm were up there with Rodri. He was the one making the midfield tick over.
Pep is obviously looking for him to push forward into the position Gundogan was playing and the early signs are really good.
Though Gvardiol looked pretty good too…Ake has serious competition now.
I was surprised there were no subs and Rodri looked absolutely shattered towards the end.
 
pride in battle said:
I'm puzzled why your son ISN'T a blue ?
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He's his own man. He grew up as a tot in north Wales, then Japan, then China, and finally France. He would have laughed right in my face if I'd tried to impose being a City supporter on him.
In any case I've never been able to impose anything on him. He's his own man.
 
MadchesterCity said:
I know surely you've failed as a parent!?
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On the contrary, I've succeeded as a parent, according to my lights. I never let my parents make my choices for me, I have always been ferociously independent of family pressure (and indeed peer group pressure). It's the way I roll.
I have brought him up to have the same mindset. It's given me some real old shocks. As a an old sixties hippie, it was not easy to take it on board when over twenty years ago he announced to his mother and me that he was joining the army. He's still there and, being how he is, he's capable of being critical of the army and the way it works. It's the way he rolls.
 
Dribble said:
Mate, I was seriously shitting myself about this match, & seeing the bench turned my shit to diarrhea!

I honestly didn't expect this exemplary professional performance, considering the team were rinsed on Wednesday.

I can't express how pleased I am with what I saw tonight. Newcastle tore Villa a second arsehole last week, & we basically controlled them like a puppet master.

Considering we're far from our best, & struggling for squad numbers, our opposition must be cacking their y-fronts!

Hopefully our injury situation will ease very soon, & we can seal deals for Paqueta & Doku to release some of the impending squad pressure when the CL, Carabao Cup & international breaks kick in.
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Paqueta, you wanna bet? :-))
 
Burtonblue said:
Great performance under the circumstances given the midweek efforts.
Brilliant atmosphere and great celebrations at the start made sure I lost my voice before kick off.
Foden was outstanding but a big nod for Kovacic; he was excellent. He drove the team forward and his ball retention and passing rhythm were up there with Rodri. He was the one making the midfield tick over.
Pep is obviously looking for him to push forward into the position Gundogan was playing and the early signs are really good.
Though Gvardiol looked pretty good too…Ake has serious competition now.
I was surprised there were no subs and Rodri looked absolutely shattered towards the end.
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Spot on . Dominated a good team at a difficult time in the season for us. Thought the atmosphere was good in a tense game and Pep seemed happy enough at the end. Don’t know what people want if they come away disappointed with that?
 
Otamendi's Beard said:
Kovacic was class last night. He made the midfield tick, especially in that first half.

But Phil was MOTM. One of his best games in blue and would've had 3 assists on another day.

Having Dias at the back is crucial.
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That midfield of Rodri, Phil and Kova, with support from Julian and Jack looked fantastic. The team were knackered but Pep clearly wanted the team who had worked so hard to finish the job off, and you could tell how proud he was of them at the end. People who keep writing us off (to be fair that’s usually in here rather than the media) are clueless. Getting 3 points out of that game and seemingly escaping with no injuries from the gbh of howes’s hackers was a great result, well done City
 
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