Newcastle Fan

I am sure he will only get better and bulid on his start with us but.. 1) for someone who is more of a 10 than a 9 he's yet to have a single assist with us, quite often he can turn and put of the wingers through but he takes too much time. 2) for a giant of a striker he dosn't try much to win aerial duals, i noticed we stopped trying to kick it long to him. Hopefully these are things Eddie and the team will be able to work with him on going forward.

He's not a bad player but honestly one of the best things that happend to us is that he got suspended for the final, he loses his head so easy and the whole team gets affected by it.

The most annoying thing is how much turmoil West Ham are in right now, our goal came in and you can see both their fans and players almost giving up and what did we do? sat back and kept misplacing and losing every ball, not challenging for anything and pretty much asking them to get back in the game, almost felt scripted how bad we were yesterday and how much we helped them get their confidence back and go on and win it.

It was a really strange performance and Howe described it rightly as unrecognisable, we comfortably beat Benfica in the Champions League and knocked Tottenham out of the cup just a week ago but today not a single player looked good. Even players like Tonali so consistant and good were struggling, no one looked confident with the ball and everyone looked weak without it, i can't recal seeing a performance like this since the Steve Bruce days. Its also made stranger by the fact that we actually rested players for this, and even the players we brought on were just as bad as the ones we took off.

Not even a debate that he's been fantastic for us in midfield and just watch his performance in the cup final to see just how good he is. However with Miley starting to shine we need to rely on him less, his style of play works but it seems to have taken a toll and we can afford to sit him out a bit and try something else.

He felt like the only one trying to hurt them and even he hasn't had the best of games.

I echo what i said about him a week back, for someone starting every game for us and Brazil he can't keep having games when he's one of the worst players on the pitch regulary.

So many questions have to be asked of him today, why did we play so negative against a team in turmoil, why mess the formation up at half time and make us worse, why take your best striker off when its only 1-2. Love Eddie but on the back of 3 good wins that was disgraceful.

How the hell does a player playing for a champions league club and his national team put up a performance like that.

Didn't look like a pro footballer today let alone a premier league one.

What a fucking shit show.

What the fuck are we doing today.

Why are they sleep walking in this game.

Rubbish game so far.

Gordon with an incredibly shit start.

Looked good yesterday in midfield, he worked really hard and seemed to be at a good place physically. The second goal was all his work by pressing them to lose the ball then providing the assist to Woltemade.

The most squad player player we have.

Absloute top class player for us, so pleased for him. More pleasing to me is that with Thiaw we finally have an able replacment for the oustanding qualities Schar brings to the team.

Perfect performance today.

Best left back in the world.

I am not impressed so far to be honest but he will get better with time.

Insane performance tonight, world class.

He looks like our worst forward player, totally shit in the final third and dosn't help out the defence as much as others. At some point he was chasing that Simons kid and he just stopped and let him have a free shot at our goal at a crucial time.

Elanga just stopped and left his man free to score.

Yeah i thought he did well for the winner, the run actually pulled their defenders away from Tonali and Bruno who both could've scored.