haha yeh really makes me laugh when peeps say Newcastle will be disappointed. Why? You scored one goal and did not thing else other than feign injury and play dirty and get outplayed for 89 mins. Do me a favour
Pre Match - Newcastle (h) - Wed 8pm
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haha yeh really makes me laugh when peeps say Newcastle will be disappointed. Why? You scored one goal and did not thing else other than feign injury and play dirty and get outplayed for 89 mins. Do me a favour
The media were banging on about the winner being scored in the 8th minute of 5 minutes injury time. They failed to notice that this was entirely Newcastle's fault for their grotesque time-wasting. If they hadn't indulged in the clowning around they would have probably got a point.
The reason we got extra minutes was 3ctimes in the 5 added minute Newcastle players went down faking injury. Pope alone took over a minute and it was obvious that he would blow up as soon as the corner cleared the box
Apart from the goals, the only really good chance we had was diaz's shot that was blocked . That was heading in but we created fuck all. Newcastle got what they deserved because of that kidology but truth being told we created very little even after we got it to 1-1 which is very disappointing
He didn´t do it then because he has class.
More so
Why judged only on the second half?
He was ok, but there were fewer pockets between their defense and midfield, so he linked up play less times. Howe knows his things.
Firmino seems to have woken from a slumber though, more of a spring in his step.
Jota is also back soon. That will ease our attacking issues as well.
I've just watched the City highlights so it seems maybe very strange to say this but the City game was in many ways very similar to ours, the difference obviously being the finishing but goals (half tap-ins) aside City had fewer shots with few clear cut opportunities.
Yeah I know, six goals, but it's not as if there were a ton of shots on target (9 in total). The point I'm making here is not that obviously City finished better but that against packed defences clear cut opportunities and shots on target are likely to be lower simply because of the number of defenders blocking shots. In both cases it was clear which team deserved to win.
I thought he was tragic in the first half bar the involvement for Diaz’s miss after taking it round Pope. I turned it off at half time.
Uh how fucking slow were we in transition ? Newcastle committed bodies , often out numbered us going forward ,wed win the ball back and crab the ball from side to side until they were back in shape. Firmino, Elliott, Diaz would all end up in the centre circle with 9 players in front of them
How are went to get it forward when the number 9 is swapping pound coins with the 6?
Diaz had a great chance early on which he put over the bar. We had plenty of touches in their box. But when they come to frustrate and defend all night (which will change once Nunez returns) we’re never going to get many clear cut chances. It was a one way game
Henry Winter in "The Times" was one of the exceptions. I tend to find him overrated but fair play to the guy for pointing this out.
You can. Salah got 2 assists.
Fair
Hadn’t seen yours 🙂
written in the sheer excitement of it all..😀
great minds an all that..
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