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    Newcastle United 0-0 Aston Villa - 18/08/07 - Post Match reaction from Page 12

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    It was a game that was needed. The hype needs to stop or at least calm down a whole lot. This is still a team far from being complete. We're only two competitive matches into the season and people are expecting nice attacking football? Has anyone noticed that this is a formation which NONE of our players are used to? I'm not making excuses for the inept attacking display but I fully empathize with BS and realize that we have to calm down. Has anyone noticed how the other teams in the league have started? Spurs lost 2 in a row before recovering today. Manyoo are only on 2 points after two matches. Chelsea were very good for only 10 minutes and then went back into the sloppiness which plagued them the whole game against Reading. No team has started on fire, and we should be analyzing the team's performance in relative to how the other teams, especially our direct competitors (Spurs, Everton and Villa etc.), have done.

     

    Regarding today's performance, I thought Zoggy and Milner were our best players. Milner was trying his darn hardest to create something. Viduka was disappointing and should have come off a lot earlier because at least Ameobi competed for balls in the air. I thought Laursen and Mellberg were brilliant. When Enrique's fit, I expect Sam to give Zoggy a go in the middle in games like these, especially at home. We're lacking that drive in the middle of the park; Geremi's always looking to pass, Butt needs to stop with his playmaking bs and Smith's creative abilities is limited. We're lacking the drive that we lacked when Emre and Parker was in the middle. There needs to be a balance, something which will be hard to find if Smith and Butt are paired together in a game in which the onus to attack is on us. I'm not sure if Barton will be a better fit but we need a playmaker or at least give Zoggy/Emre a real go.

     

    Overall though, we shouldn't be displeased; 4 points from the first couple of games was something most of us would have been happy with and we should be looking at that. Our next few games aren't the hardest as well so we should at least be picking up more points, especially if we continue to be solid at the back, something which most people have overlooked in criticizing the attack today.

     

     

     

     

    Good post  and Agree what i was saying before the game

    Newcastle United 0-0 Aston Villa - 18/08/07 - Post Match reaction from Page 12

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    Poor performance

    Poor result

    Poor Atmosphere

    Poor tactics

    Poor game

     

    Mid table at best playing like this

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    Im not being negative its the truth and two many people thought we would win easily and had to high ecpectations just because we won a game not saying we will finish there just saying we will get a few games like this.

     

     

    SUPERTOON, you are surely on the most knee-jerk-tastic members on here.

     

    Villa are a boring side, they always have been and they usually tend to grind out boring draws and stifle entertaining football.

    At least we remain unbeaten but I think O'neil may have won the battle of tactics this game as they defended well, as did we, the entire match.

     

    I think eventually we'll need a 'Deco type' player at some stage to open up games like these but who knows, Emre may be that very player as hes approaching full fitness.

     

    Bring on the next game I say, we'll learn from this match in various ways :)

     

     

     

     

    Its not knee jerk if you pre match thread i said i expected a tough game where as others were saying we would win 4-0 i am not booing as i expected this game to be like this and we will have more the same

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