Newcastle United (H) | Sat 19th Aug, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[Barcon]

Tough game 4-2 City

 

[SWP's back]

Hope Phil plays a lot better than he did against Sevilla, although I think the heat fucked a lot of our lads up. A lot of pressure on Foden now to chip in with goals and assists in Kev's absence

Phil has provided the pre-assist for our last 3 goals scored.

 

[G-Star Medium Rare]

Ortega Lewis McAtee Harwood- Bellis Gomez Perone Phillips Foden ( capt) Palmer Haaland Alvarez
FU PL

 

[mexico1970]

Son In Law phoned me from Newcastle today and him and his mates are not optimistic in the least. If I tell him that he should be more confident it sounds a bit patronising.

So I just thanked him for the points.

 

[Axel Freed]

Not sure whether the super cup game will benefit us in terms of an extra 90 mins of fitness in our legs or whether the travel and disruption will hamper us. Either way a draw wouldn’t be a bad result, maintains our unbeaten record in all comps bar dead rubbers since early Feb.

I think Newcastle are as close to us as anyone and the psychological boost they’d get from a win away at the #BestTeamInTheWorld could make them even more dangerous this season

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

I think this is as likely to be a 0-0 stinker as much as a multi goal thriller. Think Newcastle will prefer not to get beat, and if they give Haaland as much space as they gave Villa then he'll score a hat trick.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

How is it that Newcastle are rampant after a 4 goal victory at home in which Villa had plenty of good chances yet we are apparently no-hopers after a 3 goal away victory against a more than useful Burnley side?

Wouldn't be BM without flappers flapping bud.

 

[WallyA]

Cant have this be end to end, we need to control the game, they have too much energy.

Rodri, Kovacic, Bernie trifecta in the middle to control and suffocate their press.

Stones seems like he is out injured.

So either Rodri goes CB or, we get Walker and Gvardiol to play wide and get wingers to play inside ahead of the 3 controllers named above. This is how we easily stopped Burnleys ability to press.

 

[Gray]

Get that lanky twat Burn wound up like last season, seemed to unsettle all the Bar Codes.

 

[GSW Blue]

Stuart Pearce just tipped NUFC to win the league!