The same new manager bounce they had last week when they let 4 in without reply? That's a joke of a reason and it doesn't hold water.
English core, what difference has that made before? It's only used if we lose and isn't when we win with the same mix of players. An English core is bollocks, we had more of an English core than against a much better Liverpool side but we weren't up for this game.
As for home game, isn't it the only home game they've actually won this season. Why hasn't home advantage helped them before today?
Must win game, it should have been for both teams.
A kid at centreback, OK, we did have but he was 1 player out of 11. If we'd played more to go at them instead of starting slow that wouldn't have even come into it.
Pardew tried to be clever up front and he isn't good enough to do that, he's clueless.