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Morecambe FC 0 - 2 Newcastle Utd - 28/08/13 - post-match reaction from page 43


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Thought we were OK second half. A few of the players looked a bit intimidated by their physicality.

 

The pitch was tiny, that made it a lot easier for them to press us to be fair. I'm glad we're at home for the next leg.

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Thought Sammy was dangerous but unspectacular. He's got flair and a rare semblance of desire, though, so he's bound to get the better of such shite opponents.

 

Pardew's got to start him against Fulham now after the horseshite he came out with pre-game.

 

Overall, total crap, just better than the opposition. HBA won it. It took his introduction to finally have someone capable of making a direct, effective pass.

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Pleased to manoeuvre through that with the win and no injury concerns. Outside the first XI we're shit, we all knew that.

 

Decent draw next round too, no reason we can't have an attempt at a run in this cup for once (Pardew lol). Now for a win on Saturday, aye.

 

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The fucking Amoebas. Fuck off.

 

:lol:

 

You have to give them some credit for actually ending the game on a high.

 

What's strange is you can tell all the players we had were clearly more talented than their Morecambe counterparts, yet we were so badly organised defensively and offensively. I know some of it is from these lads not playing proper games together much, but so much of it has to be down to poor coaching and tactics.

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Elliot - mixed bag

Debuchy - defensively decent, going forward poor

Good - impressive

Mapou - few hairy moments and needs to distribute better

Dummett - gradually improved

Bigi - poor

Gosling - OK

Vuckic - non-existent

Marveaux - flitted in and out

Sammy - shit first half, very good second half

Gouffran - shite

 

Shola - shite but scored

Ben Arfa - canny, two assists

Sissoko - cameo

 

We were lucky really. Took a lucky deflection to see off a League 2 side. At least we won.

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At least it made it evident we require more players tonight. Not that I think it will matter a toss. Shola was exactly what we needed when he came on and Sammy was our MOTM. We were still bloody lucky in spells though. Several players had fucking nightmares tonight.

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