Newcastle (a) - Match Thread - 03/01/2021

[Guest seanfox778]

We've not been bad just need a bit more penetration in the final third, second half.

[TrickyTrevLeftPeg]

Dreadful, uninspiring, no attacking threat.

[filbertway]

Big decision to make at half time.

 

Do I stick with watching this shit or do I do literally anything else?

 

I might base it on half time subs.

 

Rodgers will probably wait till Wilson scores his customary 1 lucky chance per game and then itll be too late.

 

[TheUltimateWinner]

Meh, not as bad as people make out but I’m getting bad palace vibes 

[Hales]

I bet our bench are dying to get on. Surely it's written in the stars for Perez to come on and score!

[bfox]

Yep poor. No final bit of quality, wish we could play top 6 every week. Only teams we see, to turn up for 

[Beechey]

Under, I beg.

[Spudulike]

Just now, Mike Oxlong said:

This ref looks like he could replace H in Steps 

Had more touches than Vardy. 

[Sly]

Just now, Dahnsouff said:

Of these 4 minutes, the ball has been in play for what? 1 minute? 

I wish they’d pause the clock, so we actually get 90 minutes of actual football per match. It would change the game so much. 

[Guest StevieLynex]

Just now, kingfox said:

Boring.

 

That was basically 45 minutes of walking football.

Th excuse will be because the players are tired, too many games in such a short space of time...

[simon789us]

Too slow

[Fox85]

That was a crap first half im hoping it can only get better

[coolhandfox]

Obession with playing it back to the CB to play it back to the other, rinse and repeat. 

 

Lost count of the amount of time our first thought is to play backwards.......

 

Similer pattern to the gaems we have lost, loads of ball get hit on the sucker punch. 

Edited 3 January 2021 by coolhandfox

[Ian Nacho]

Boring half. Under on for Albrighton. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

1 minute ago, Paddy. said:

We're lucky to be ranked 20th from corners to be brutally honest.

 

Maddison's corners have been almost universally pony for ages (better today) but it doesn't help us that anybody attacking then has a 50p head

[matty98]

Under on at half time please and give Youri license to get forward more. Ndidi is more than comfortable being the only defensive midfielder.

[Guest Kopfkino]

So awfully slow and ponderous, lacking conviction and crispness. They look anything but fresh

[Buggsteam]

Well that was a crap and boring first half. 
no urgency or drive to get the ball forward. 
 

thought most of these had been rested for today. 

[Gav_LCFC14]

Have they tried passing the ball between Evans and Little Wes?

[Dan]

I'd take Maddison off if he's not fully fit, got vibes of Ndidi/Ricardo about it. Under on for Albrighton. We'll change nothing at HT though.

[Deeg67]

Well, that was exciting.

[justfoxes]

Come on Brendan sort this out for the second half such a frustrating first half just need that something special to get our opening goal, I’d go under for Albrighton swap wings with Castagne & Justin ??

[Manini]

These are more than happy with a point, haven’t fancied going forward at all. Under on for Albrighton has to happen. 

[kristianity77]

4 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

The part where you said we look dreadful - I see you left it out this time, but this was the part which was very wrong.

Well I think with zero shots on target and virtually nothing in the final third apart from Vardys offside goal is indeed dreadful. 

[Aus Fox]

Not a bad half, clearly the better side and we’ve created 3 or 4 half chances. 
The referee is very frustrating, and someone will get a serious injury today if he doesn’t get a grip of the tackles flying in.

Maddison playing well, everyone else can go up a gear or two, we keep going.