Newcastle Fan

With Bruno back and barring not injuries during the break we should be able to field and ok-ish side and and subs for Chelsea, its just the run that will follow will be very unforgiving and if players start dropping again we will struggle a lot, the next two weeks should be all about proper planning and how we will be managing the squad we have for that period as it will a game every 3/4 days until January.

Another absolute stinker today, what i don't enjoy is that it seems like everything HAS to go through him, and its all fine when he's having many of his better games but on nights light this and recently, we really need to try and have more players create.

On one hand i don't want to be too harsh on him because he's semi-retired but on the other hand he adds very little value that we really need to make sure we don't see him play many more games going forward, hopefully we'll have enough players back to ensure that.

I need to add that he really needs to cut the diving off his game, he's terrible at it and ends up putting us in too much trouble.

The minute you put him up top he loses all his powers

Last two games he's been really off, if i didn't watch him have a brilliant game against Man Utd i would've said he doesn't look ready.

I don't think he has the tools to play as a striker, definitely much better on the wing.

What the fuck was this performance tonight, i'm a big fan of his but today he was off in every department.

Really good today and we looked worse when he came off .

Even with factoring the injuries this was the worst performance i've seen under him.

Longstaff's worst game this season so far.

His height is 185cm but he looks taller than that, didn't look out of place yesterday.

In trying to drastically change the way we played, we saw against Man Utd in the cup that we have a style of play that works regardless of personal, trying to play a completely different tactic today threw a few of our players off.

He was too isolated at the start of the game and had to do a lot of running to try and feed off scraps so its predictable that his hamstring felt a bit tight, think he'll be good for Saturday.

Very poor today, you can tell the load is too much on him, he's brilliant in one game then terrible in the next. needs a rest.

Thought he was very good today however would've appreciated a few more runs from our forward players to give him an outlet.

That chance killed us, it reminded how much we hated him when he was our No.9

Him and Tripp will be starters going forward, wither on the left or right i don't worry much about either but it's unfair on him expecting him to attack players and cause damage in forward areas as he's a much better defender than attacker.

Got a lot wrong today but even he is learning at this level. i didn't feel like we needed that drastic change of formation and set-up considering how well we've been playing, it took away a lot of what we did good and exposed us.

I think we over complicated things with those tactics and made it easier than it should be for them, need a change at half time.

Every striker will miss one or two but its him getting in these positions even in tough games like this is what matters, it was a very hard night for him but he gave it his all and i'm happy we managed to rest him a bit for a huge game on Tuesday.

Back to being a fucking beast, dominated them.

He needs to stop punching people in games; got away with this one and psg.

What a fantastic player he is turning out to be for us.

Didn't see the line ups and subs so i was really surprised when i saw him come on, less so when he was injured but fair play for giving it a shot.