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Finally hauled off Ozil. What a pathetic showing that was from him. Absolutely disgusting.

 

What was his reaction

Same as it was on the pitch not fussed. The man is dead inside.

Finally hauled off Ozil. What a pathetic showing that was from him. Absolutely disgusting.

 

What was his reaction

 

 

More calm than Kaka I imagine.

Sorry, really don't like Ozil.

Finally hauled off Ozil. What a pathetic showing that was from him. Absolutely disgusting.

Good Shelvey impression by Guendouzi there. Don’t get the hype one bit.

 

He is brilliant at transitioning the ball from defence to the attacking players. He is the main reason they've had such decent possession today.

 

Ozil is killing them as he is essentially offering nothing to help out both Guendouzi and Torreira in the middile, either going forward or defensively.

 

Guendouzia and Torreira have used the ball so well.

 

 

 

He does what any average midfielder can do if that’s all that’s asked of them.

I really think this is a terrible take.

There is a plethora of midfielders that never find space and make themselves available to receive the ball, cannot get the ball in tight spaces and either hold onto the ball or turn away from opposition midfielders and maintain possession, play passes into the feet of attacking players further up the pitch and not keep going sideways, backwards or over their heads. I think he is absolutely brilliant at all of these things.

If he had a better team around him it would be so much more appreciated. Think its incredible that people often slate the guy. Reminds me of the slating of Jorginho previously. I would love to have Guendouzi. The number of times we have to watch our dimwitted midfielders punt the ball at Joelinton/Carroll, or fail to find or release Almiron and Saint-Maximin is enough to make me really appreciate the type of midfielder Guendouzi is. He is quality and he will prove it in time.

Willock for Ozil is such an obvious sub doubt Ljunberg does it though.

Good Shelvey impression by Guendouzi there. Don’t get the hype one bit.

He is brilliant at transitioning the ball from defence to the attacking players. He is the main reason they've had such decent possession today.

Ozil is killing them as he is essentially offering nothing to help out both Guendouzi and Torreira in the middile, either going forward or defensively.

Guendouzia and Torreira have used the ball so well.

Chambers is so rubbish man. Step up and meet him you clown.

This is embarrassing.

Get Ozil off man. So useless!

Terrible idea starting him from a defensive standpoint in this game anyway and he doesn't do anything going forward.

The man has fallen off a cliff. Just ambles about popping simple passes around.

Lad at work was saying “to be fair at least we’re having more of a go these days”.  Nearly lost it 

 

Where has this utter myth came from

Satan.

Imagine what his life must be like playing in this system.

Earlier on he was far more consistent in bringing the ball down holding it up and dropping it off, go back and watch the games, you can see his effort and desire has  waned now and continues to do so.

In the instances he does successfully hold the ball up, drop it off, and get forward what actually comes of it? Absolutely nothing. Some other plonker on the team loses the ball or delivers a poor final ball time and time again.

The guy was brought in as a striker and wants to score goals for the team. Per game he currently averages less than one really good chance to score. The guy is getting more and more demoralised.

None of our forward players look like scoring ever.  I'm not convinced at all.

Under Bruce and in this setup? No chance.

Rafa is obsessive about giving players very detailed instructions. Down to which foot they should be using in certain situations.

This must have been tremendous for a young guy like him, who clearly has the athleticism, ability and desire to compete in this league.

Now he's stuck with a manager that has no instructions or advice to give him. His career is pretty much done. He'll be hoping Man Utd come back in and can see that Bruce is messing him up.

If not, he's done. He'll show no progress again going forward and will end up a no mark player. Frightening how quickly fortunes can change under the wrong leadership. So tragic for Newcastle that it's going to end up this way for him.

Rafa had the value of the moajority of our players trending upwards massively as last season came to a close.

Now it is quite the opposite. Bruce has already tanked Longstaff, Almiron, Hayden and Schar's value IMO. I'll even go as far as to say Joelinton wouldn't be looking this ridiculous under Rafa even.

Our second half of the season is going to be a disaster.

That miss today was so bad. Just so casual and dumb.

The weight of the ball was good enough for him to come onto it with his stronger right foot.

Terrible.

Think there will be more striker opportunities this year, Rafa was (rightly so) very rigid in building an attack around Rondon and Perez who both stayed fit all season.

 

This season there will be injuries, two up top at times, more rotation for who supports Joelinton. It’s why we need Gayle and Carroll to be quite honest, this could be our best set of striker options in the past 15 years.

 

What the fuck are you talking about you fucking mong

I think the second half of the season we will not have the fortune we have had.

The injuries will pile up and the team and approach will be exposed.

We'll sink like a stone.

We are the absolute worst.

 

Calm down man.

We are championship standard.

We are the absolute worst.

Did people expect anything else? We’ve been so so lucky so far with results.

 

This.

 

There’s no consistency with this fuckwit in charge. He wings it on a game by game basis.

There's certainly some consistency.

Consistently bad football. Time and time again.

Ha! Joelinton put that on a plate man.

That is fucking disgusting from Gayle. So shit man.

Why on earth has he gone with his left? My goodness ...

We have 4 strikers on lol

Pardew tactics. Throw on all the strikers.

Heard on here Atsu produces the same as Saint Maximin.

You have got to be joking.

Atsu again. With the absolutely horrendous play.