KingArthur

I think we are going to be 5th or 6th. Drawing too many games. Spurs are not great, but have a better squad. Liverpool and Chelsea are far away already.

I must be the worst player ever in this game. Again I have Watkins and Tarkowski (and Dier still to play and score most likely) on the bench..

English is my third language, so maybe uncomfortable is not the right word. I think "not his greatest strength" would be better. Not saying he is poor on the ball. Sorry if this was misunderstood.

True, and missplaces passes like today. But his job clearly is to be more creative of the 2 centrehalves. Try to play longer pass to left wing, behing for Wilson or step out with the ball. Botman plays deeper and easier. Driven pass to Trippier is good one of course. We will see this better against Liverpool or City when they most likely will be pressing high. Love to be proven wrong. He is superb in the most important task, that is defending and had Antonio who is really strong handled well. I love the guy. Just noticed that he keeps the play pretty simple.

No, just comparing him to Schär. Doesn't want to use his right foot, which puts him under pressure unnecessarily. He is great defender and was good today (again). He just was sloppy on the ball, but we were poor with the ball as a whole. edit. For example, doesn't like to step out with the ball from the back, again comparing to Schär. Don't understand why saying this makes people react so angrily? It's not like I say he is poor. Just comparing him to Ake, Blind etc. who have played as a full back even.

For a Dutch that has played at Ajax, he is surprisingly uncomfortable with the ball. Huge difference to Schär, who to be fair is great.

He just seems to play totally different game than rest of the squad. Doesn't make runs behind, isn't waiting to play combinations etc. Waits for pass to feet and starts dribbling. He has the ability to be great, but doesn't seem to have the footballing brain. Breaks my heart to say that because love the guy. I guess he will be sold next summer.

He offers very little to our possessional play. Doesn't link up very well or come to collect it deeper, but just offers to run behind. He is effective poacher in the box, but I would say he is one of the reason we are not scoring much. Or his lack of form is a big reason.

33-year-old from Finland. Saw the UCL game against Feyenoord from Finnish Tv for some reason, cannot recall if it was highlights only, but I guess it was full match. Just somehow started to support from that, and of course couldn't see the games very often, but managed to talk my dad into paying for football channels so could watch almost every game. Have seen pretty much all the games since 2005. First and only time that I have seen Newcastle live was at Craven Cottage during Rafa's Championship season. Huge and loud away support btw. Of course we lost 0-1... Been reading this forum for a long long time and nufc.com match reports and other interesting thing. Took me a while to figure out what "wor" means lol. edit. I was staying at Edinburgh the season when we played Europa League with Pardew, and was hoping to get to game that weekend, but of course we had EL game that Thursday and the game got postponed to Sunday, when I was flying back already.. No one supported Newcastle where I am from. Father thought Shearer was a great player obv tho, but all were Arsenal, ManU or Liverpool fans, and pretty much still are here. Souness' time, Kinnear, Bruce, Carver. Through a lot of shit for team thousand miles away. My local team plays in black and white also, so funny coincidence.

Mitoma seems skilful, but damn that final pass has been awful

Bit worried about how he will fit in to this Howe's pressing game. We really need him to unlock deep defences, but really cannot afford to have someone not press or pass quickly enough. Love the man and hope Howe manages to make it work.

ASM seems a bit lost in Howe's system, but damn he can be a threat.

I would say so. Doesn't need contact

I dont think it came off Willock. He was must have been jugded to be interfering.

I seem to recall Bobby's team got booed in the last home game in his full season, when we finished fifth?

I think England under Southgate has just been too cautious. Yesterday plan seemed to be firstly to stop Mbappe and then figure out a way to score. Walker did nothing because his job was just to stay back. It worked in a way of course cause Mbappe was quiet. Midfield 3 was too defensive imo. RIce offers nothing forward and Henderson very little.

They were pretty decent year ago? Denmark really needs a proper striker. Cornelius and Braithwaite are a total waste of squad place. Danes were very poor tho. Slow build up and didn't seem to know where to breakthrough.

Joelinton has been ridiculously good today.

Damn Fulham is awful

I thought Paqueta looked very slow. New league and team and all that, but needs to improve a lot.

Yes Bruno should be higher up. He was tired and couldn't track back 2nd half anymore.

CM was not the problem today. We had no threat from the wings. Edit. Don't really know why Willock gets so much hate. He at least gets in the box and is some kind of threat. Would make it a lot easier if wingers could actually beat a man.

We are not gonna score playing like this.

Steven Taylor. Fking hell how bad was he. And how much hyped when he first came to first team.

The decision was shocking yesterday that's clear. I mean, if Willock is not pushed, he heads that in. And Vieira says "without the foul, goalkeeper collects it" Guaita was nowhere near to get it, so Willock would rather crash into the GK than score an easy header?