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Nolan playing just off Carroll and Shola, which Tiote allows by sitting deep, has completely tansformed our play. It's brought the best out of Shola, Carroll and Nolan simultaneously.

Disgustingly good penalty.

Fantastic for Shola. Has looked great recently. Brilliant, brilliant penalty.

Clear cut.

This is a masterclass by Newcastle at the moment. Beautiful football.

Seriously, how good is Tiote? My word ...

Thought 442 wasn't cool anymore?

Won't work as well for them because they don't have a Tiote to win the ball and dictate play. Our current formation works very well, particularly with Barton roaming from the right side. Great stuff.

Jermaine Jenas

VDV is ridiculous. What a player.

Brilliant, brilliant player.

Real just had him and Sneijder rotting away on their bench. Man utd could have got both in that Ronaldo transfer. Imagine that.

Modric and Van de Vaart are doing it all really. No one else is really contributing.

Jenas is awful ... any pass over more than two yards he gives away. Incredible to watch.

Great strike VDV!

Modric and Jenas in the centre at Old Trafford, with Jenas as the holding midfielder?!

Tottenham are going to be wide open in the centre of the field. Jenas has already fallen over a couple of times and lost posession. Extraordinarily poor player.

Mancini is an ass.

Looked pretty good at CB. Willing to bet he'd be better at DM than Smith also.

No injuries was the priority. The 4-0 scoreline sucks, but come on ... Smith, Raylor, Perch, Kadar, Loven, Ranger. It's a second team who haven't played much outside of Perch. A few more first teamers in there and we would have fared much better. Just can't afford that though.

Did Carroll get injured on that last play? Or was he just cowering over like that because the shot was saved.

Barton is fuckwit ... we'll lose him for the weekend at this rate.

Jonas has his detractors, but for me he is absolutely invaluable. Just so brave and always takes on so much responsibility, as far as using the ball goes.

Oh laaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwd!

Whats with these subs??? Please God no injuries.

Just to echo the sentiment. Not excited about the Gutierrez and Carroll subs at all.

Where's Leon Best nowadays by the way?

Routledge has been so dissapointing in general this season. However, I think he would benefit hugely from having a more attack minded right back to play off of, and make a bit more space for him. Trying to do to much alone at the moment, and never seems to have any support from the back.

Nah it wouldn't.

Fair enough.

Has no one noticed how much time Rosicky has when he gets the ball around our box?Smith is marking no one ball watching the whole time....setting himself up for another one of his sliding tackles!Dont know how anyone thinks hes playing well!Maybe its a sign how poor we played in the first half.Need some support for Ranger there centre back looks dodgey as f***

Smith just doesn't get it. Denilson and Rosicky have been picking Newcastle apart all game, because they have all the time and freedom in the world.

s**** header from Ryan Taylor btw. I know there wasn't much pace on the ball but heading it down in that position was asking for trouble.

 

It's an easy ball for Taylor to deal with. Could have kicked it well away. It was incredible. I mean if that doesn't hit krul where does it go exactly? Right back to a players feet right in the box. Krul messed up but Taylor was ultimately responsible for the goal. Crazy defending.

 

 

 

It was an incredibly bad header, but how on earth could he have kicked that away?

It would have dropped to his foot. He had time to let it do so and clear it I thought. Only seen it the once though.