Smal

Thought Lumsden was really good and by far our most dangerous player today tbh!

Feel like we deserved something out of the game tbf. Last half an hour we were good after the subs and had some control over the game. We definitely need a more physical presence up top if we can get one. It'd make a massive difference given how we seem to play, relying on second balls and pretty direct football. Booting it long for Barker and Hayles unsurprisingly didn't bear fruit at all.

Cooper with a proper Sunday leaguer after Southampton didn't defend a corner well.

gol! 99th minute equaliser

go on then... when was the last time 3 Newcastle players started a competitive international for England?

Still something in this for us. We've looked much more dangerous the last 10 minutes.

Gordon's made the most sprints by miles as well. If nothing else we are really good at running

0-1 at HT. Southampton look decent tbf. Their midfield and defence are bullying us. I like Barker and pleased she's starting but not sure about her in central areas because of the physicality.

Real lack of composure and quality when we get the ball in their half.

can’t really understand why Boddy isn’t playing. Consistently looks like our best player to me and predictably we don’t look like we can string two passes together in midfield without her.

NUFC women are playing at 2pm tomorrow, which I think'll be on the app? But yeah, international breaks suck when we've been on a winning streak.

There is more room for the RCM to be involved if Willock is playing I think, as it often means the RCM has to sit deeper. Especially if teams try to mark Bruno out of the game as they often do. Longstaff attempted 48 passes vs Bruno's 38 in the last game for example.

Bellingham is peak MOTD player. Slightly better version of Charlie Adam.

The confidence Hall is playing with atm 🫡

Greek guy has made a couple of decent saves tonight

if he can learn to control the ball rather than it bouncing 5 yards straight back off him he’ll be some player

Howe taught him that

Madueke is lazy af defensively. Was a big issue for Chelsea against us.

there is obviously a really good player in Cherki. It'd probably be a bit like having another Ben Arfa where you wonder what could've been tbh. Even though he hasn't been playing every minute for Lyon this season he's way out in front for shot creating actions per 90 and expected assists per 90 across the whole league, and second for everyone's favourite metric expected threat.

I really hate how as soon as he starts playing well the discussion always turns straight to how much people would sell him for. This fanbase needs therapy big time .

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he definitely looks fitter than he did earlier in the season, so yeah he’ll naturally have more pace available as a result

on my rewatch yesterday I noticed he played really well. He clearly loves having Willock in the team as it leaves him less isolated and it means he has someone to help him press high. Willock also plays so high up the pitch that it enables Isak to try to drop deeper and link play more… not everything came off for him but he was much more involved than usual. I feel like I owe Willock an apology. When he’s playing well, the way he plays is seemingly very important for us at the moment.

just doing a rewatch. We were really good. Even in the first half we had pretty much total control over the game.

it’s funny though