Beren

I swear to fucking god Longstaff pinging 'em in like prime Juninho would've been too much

Bringing Trips on

This is what I always dreamt about for Newcastle tbh. I'm not saying the talent of the players is unimportant, but to have a team with a philosophy and a way of playing, where rotating even 8 players out doesn't change the identity of the team - that's real, meaningul progress that will result in silverware eventually.

Oh is Rashford on.

Need to play a bit more keep ball. To preserve energy for the weekend as much as anything.

Opposite of the Dortmund game, when the ball just wouldn't break for us. Now the ball can't not break for us.

Gerrin Willock - chuffed for him

YES THIS GIF AGAIN

Take AG off. He's knackered.

Bit nervous to start the game but I actually think he already looks reasonably solid. He needs to get a bit stronger, but showing some good stuff. Clever defending at times, good feet, good passer.

Willock still has a bit of rust, but he's working his socks off.

ETH is going to break the unspoken pact to play B teams here and bring on the cavalry at HT, consigning both thin squads to be knackered at a future important date

Get this Hannibal chump sent off before HT.

2-0 to Fullbacks FC

That ball by Miggy to Willock. Taking the absolute fucking piss, here.

And Hall

Did he look this good at Soton? Tell you what, whoever saw what they saw in Gordon and Livramento deserve a payrise.

Utterly surreal to watch, he's better passer than a lot of our outfield players today

Very good

The defending by Tino too to win the ball. It was 2 on 1 against him, and he beat them! Then the rest of the fucking team

LIVRAMENTTOOOOO

This XI are just on to graft and keep it 0-0 until 70 odd minutes. They're perfectly capable of that.

I feel quite foolish about my predicted XI now.

Dubravka Livramento Dabizaz Lascelles Bernard Acuna Bassedas Bruno Glass JDT Shola