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Newcastle United 2 - 1 Everton - 05/11/11 - post-match reaction from page 26


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Injury news:

 

Alan Pardew is looking forward to a fortnight without a game for his Newcastle United side, so they can hopefully get some of their walking wounded back to fitness.

 

Already without the likes of Cheik Tiote (knee), Shola Ameobi (hamstring) and Gabriel Obertan (toe), Saturday's 2-1 victory over Everton at St. James' Park came at a cost as another trio of players suffered injuries which forced them off.

 

Midfielders Yohan Cabaye and Sylvain Marveaux, and striker Leon Best all hobbled off during the win, to leave the Magpies' squad looking stretched to the limit.

 

But there is now an international break, meaning Newcastle are not back in action until 19th November when they travel to Manchester City. And that gives the Club's medical staff some time to work with the players.

 

"Cabaye felt his groin, Best hurt his toe and groin and Sylvain did his groin as well," explained Pardew.

 

"When you get clipped like that, it opens up the groin. Two of them were identical kinds of injury. My guess is both those will miss Man City, but we will have to wait and see.

 

"We are probably missing too many at the moment - no Cheik, no Obertan, no Sylvain, no Cabaye, no Shola - we are a little bit down on numbers, so it would be nice to get a couple back for two weeks' time."

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"Tiredness and injuries do not excuse poor ball retention and tactics"

 

Of course they do.

 

No they don't. If you don't have the ball you work so much harder which will make tired players even more tired. It always bugs me when players who can clearly keep the ball and indeed pass the ball about just revert to hoofing it aimlessley. Its actually lazy and sloppy. Again, tiredness or no tiredness.

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"Tiredness and injuries do not excuse poor ball retention and tactics"

 

Of course they do.

 

No they don't. If you don't have the ball you work so much harder which will make tired players even more tired. It always bugs me when players who can clearly keep the ball and indeed pass the ball about just revert to hoofing it aimlessley. Its actually lazy and sloppy. Again, tiredness or no tiredness.

 

Tiredness may not excuse launching it but it does effect you when passing the ball.

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Just in from work, haven't seen anything, don't give a fuck about the performance. To get results at Stoke and again here against Everton in the space of a week and continue our unbeaten run is absolutely brilliant. We don't concede many and we score: that is why we're winning games.

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Just in from work, haven't seen anything, don't give a fuck about the performance. To get results at Stoke and again here against Everton in the space of a week and continue our unbeaten run is absolutely brilliant. We don't concede many and we score: that is why we're winning games.

 

Steady, you'll end up on the MOTD sofa with that sorta analysis.

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Just in from work, haven't seen anything, don't give a fuck about the performance. To get results at Stoke and again here against Everton in the space of a week and continue our unbeaten run is absolutely brilliant. We don't concede many and we score: that is why we're winning games.

 

Steady, you'll end up on the MOTD sofa with that sorta analysis.

 

The facts are that we can score goals for fun and we rarely concede: however you arrive at that situation--total football or counter-attacking blitzes--that is how you win games. People continually saying we're lucky are missing the point: aye, sometimes we get dominated for spells, but we can allow that as we're sorted at both ends where it actually counts.

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