Shayno Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Harper 7 Didn't have too much to do apart from one good save from Cleverley. Thought he looked hesitant with crosses but Wigan didn't produce many of note. Enrique 7 Looked clumsy on the ball first half but was much more composed 2nd half. Defensively sound Colo 7.5 A quiet game is a good game for a CB, Unlucky with that great headers of his. Saylor 7 Couple of stray passes throughout the game and think he looked very slack with Cleverley second chance who was in acres of space while Saylor, the closest defender stood there doing nothing Simpson 6 Cross for Shola's chance in the first minute was a beaut but was bossed about by Cleverley all day who made him look pretty ordinary. Passing is meh for a right back Jonas 7.5 One of his good games where he rarely lost the ball and had some great runs down the left. Could perhaps have done better with his one on one chance Nolan 6 Didn't really have any impact on the game Tiote 7 Solid but the commentator was right in saying he cuts on to his right too often. Pardew should ban him from shooting Barton 8.5 Great game from Joey after a poor match last outing. Won some great contested balls, put in alot of running and his set peices were back to his great standard. Definitely tired towards the end however Lovenkrands 6 Showed elements of the striker we need to partner Carroll with his pace and the way he looks to got onto the end of headers and behind the defenders, and the strikers instinct he showed for our goal today but once he is on the ball he is poor. When he comes deep the ball becomes a hot potato and he always looks to one touch pass it backwards. The way he wasted his opportunity by cutting onto his left and into defenders really frustrated me. Ameobi 6.5 Great tap in. Showed have scored in the first minute which could have cost us. Won some headers, one or two instances where showed some good touch but not enough for the average Premier League team imo. Routledge 6.5 Worse end product than Jonas. Showed some good dribbling and pace though. Best 6.5 Fluffed his chance in front but did well until he lost his footing. Couls his appearance mean Ranger is going out on loan? I think Best could play a similar role. Pardew 7.5 Thought his subs were good and the team played well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Pardews tactics and substitutions were fine, and anyone saying any different has a stupid vendetta and isn't willing to give him a chance. We're 1-0 up, with 20 minutes to go. Trying to shut down the space in the midfield by bringing on a winger for our second striker who is lacking match fitness is perfectly acceptable. Best on for Shola - Ameobi was looking tired and FWIW Best did his job. He chased and chased and put pressure on Wigan bringing it out of defence. Nolan was knackered too, good to get some fresh legs on and a player who is willing to get stuck in. We'd all wish it wasn't Alan Smith but unfortunately he's what we have at the moment. Exactly! Re Smith on for Nolan, if Nolan was left on 90 minutes, you can just see the same people blasting Pardew for not taking him off since he was clearly knackered. Can't win with some people. Would be nice if we had a better sub for CM other than Smith but who else did we have and by his low standards, Smith did fine. He can hardly be faulted today, we needed 3 points and we got them. The way we started the game really suprised me, and was how I expect us to play against the so-called 'lesser teams'. Thought he got the starting lineup spot on too. We won't talk about my thoughts on his second half decisions like... Aye, I've got a proper vendetta against him like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Knew we could win this, Wigan are nothing special and Shola can still score. A scrappy game in truth in which if we'd been more clinically we could have won by more. Impressed with his subs as Routledge was perfect for counter attacking, I think our attacking talent faltered towards the end why Smith didn't run with it I'll never know. Chuffed with 3 points. Also playing 5 across the midfield is obvious tactic, their quality is in midfield with the likes of Cleverly, McArthur and Watson. Flooding that area of the pitch stopped them creating and meant they couldn't mount anything decent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 It's less the substitutions, more the manner of what it was saying - to me, it said to Wigan "Show us what you got" and when that happens with us, we usually find some way of f***ing it up. I just wasn't comfortable with defending a 1-0 lead away from home. A team with more quality and we could have been punished. People need to cut this argument out. In the situation the substitutions were good. I just think we were doing fine with 4-4-2 and there was no need to change that. The subs were fine, but there was no need to go so defensive - we weren't exactly troubled by them. 2-0 up and you've got a case, but with just a goal in the game, you're asking for trouble. We didn't actually play any more defensive though. We still pressed in the same areas as we had done all second half. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayno Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 It's less the substitutions, more the manner of what it was saying - to me, it said to Wigan "Show us what you got" and when that happens with us, we usually find some way of f***ing it up. I just wasn't comfortable with defending a 1-0 lead away from home. A team with more quality and we could have been punished. People need to cut this argument out. In the situation the substitutions were good. I just think we were doing fine with 4-4-2 and there was no need to change that. The subs were fine, but there was no need to go so defensive - we weren't exactly troubled by them. 2-0 up and you've got a case, but with just a goal in the game, you're asking for trouble. We didn't actually play any more defensive though. We still pressed in the same areas as we had done all second half. This, Nolan went to ACM after Loven came off. You might not of noticed but that is down to Nolan being lame. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 good spot Disco, maybe you were watching the game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpal78 Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Where did I say we should have gone all out attack? There was nowt wrong with the system we were playing before he made the changes. Then we'll just disagree. I have no problems for us to go to 4-5-1 defending a lead away even against supposedly a weaker team. I don't see anything wrong with taking a more cautious approach after we've led and like I said the formation did not made us overly defensive, if anything we had decent chances even after the changes...so I'm really not sure where you're coming from. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 I thought Pardew was good today,made the right subs at the right time,and the gameplan was spot on too.Hopefully he'll realise Nolan will be anonymous Wednesday as he doesn't do 2 good games in three days,and never has done for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayno Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 I think folk are going a little OTT with their ratings, like. Get stuffed, my ratings are awesome! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Is West Ham on wednesday night on sky? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Is West Ham on wednesday night on sky? nah arsenal city is Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 The subs were fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Great 3 points, good performance, well done all. We could have won by several and the scoreline flattered them I thought. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Massive 3 points! That was the most important thing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sicko2ndbest Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9333659.stm Beckham is a deal we will be looking to do Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roy the Irish Magpie Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 So happy we got this win but it won't count for much if we lose to west ham on wedensday. All be on p2p to watch it fully hoping we don't screw up at home like we did too many times this season(stoke, blackburn, blackpool, first five minutes of the city match and so on) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Massive 3 points! That was the most important thing. This. I haven't been this stoked for three points in a long time. We massively needed these points and it would've been a sham had we not gotten them after that performance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbers Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Great result, chuffed with the 3 points...3 points against West Ham is crucial too, fingers crossed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Loved during the match the commentators here in America were having a bit of banter talking about Stam and his move to Wigan from a Champions League club. The co-commentator says "Yeah and so did Tiote" then the other guy says "Well I can see moving from FC Twente to Newcastle but FC Twente to Wigan?" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Wigan were awful by the way and you'd hope one of the teams likely to face relegation which will help our own cause of course. Jonas was poor first half but a key figure in the second I thought as he become almost our only outlet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Routledge on Twitter asking who the cricketers were. Also praising our support. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 On Sunday 2nd January 2011, @dannysimpson12 said: Feels so good 2 get a win after the last 2 games! We should have maybe won by more but we won n kept a clean sheet, n once again our fans were crazy! Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Thought our support were amazing today. It was almost like a home match, I don't think I heard any noise from the Wigan supporters at any point during the match. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest toonlass Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Thought our support were amazing today. It was almost like a home match, I don't think I heard any noise from the Wigan supporters at any point during the match. Apart from the twat with the drum! And even he seemed to give up when he realised no-one was joining in with him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Infostrada Sports on Twitter: "Newcastle United have won four of their last five Premier League away matches in which they have held a half-time lead." Who did we surrender the lead to? Villa away under Keegan? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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