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Newcastle United 6-2 Norwich City - 18/10/15 post match reaction from page 44


Greg

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Probably one of the shittest games of top flight football I've ever seen in terms of the standard of play. Good defending has totally and utterly gone out of the window over the last 10 years or so, and it doesn't really make games better spectacles to be honest. Like watching fucking handball or something.

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Both goals were conceded because the full backs ended up being sucked into the middle leaving a huge gap in behind. Yes the wide midfielders should be covering, but it's the job of the full back to defend the flanks at the end of the day. Crosses are coming in far too easily.

We're playing with two defensive midfielders, it's their job to cover the full backs when they go forward.

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We need at least one more. Have to score at least 4 as our defence is so shite.

Indeed. This clearly won't be the end of the goals in this game, so it needs to be us.

 

Dreading the second half nap now.

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Both goals were conceded because the full backs ended up being sucked into the middle leaving a huge gap in behind. Yes the wide midfielders should be covering, but it's the job of the full back to defend the flanks at the end of the day. Crosses are coming in far too easily.

We're playing with two defensive midfielders, it's their job to cover the full backs when they go forward.

 

Basically, they're all responsible. The player that can see the danger and doesn't have his hands full elsewhere though is Sissoko, it would be daft to see it any other way. Yes, the full backs should be doing it but are doing what the midfielders should be doing, yes, the midfielders should then be covering but aren't, but Sissoko was tracking the runner and then just didn't carry on covering.

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Both goals were conceded because the full backs ended up being sucked into the middle leaving a huge gap in behind. Yes the wide midfielders should be covering, but it's the job of the full back to defend the flanks at the end of the day. Crosses are coming in far too easily.

We're playing with two defensive midfielders, it's their job to cover the full backs when they go forward.

 

The full backs weren't going forward, they were stood in the middle while the Norwich players were out wide taking aim at where they were going to put the cross in.

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We need at least one more. Have to score at least 4 as our defence is so s****.

Indeed. This clearly won't be the end of the goals in this game, so it needs to be us.

 

Dreading the second half nap now.

 

This is the issue. Do we come out now & keep attacking or will we go defensive. The latter doesnt work, our best chance is outscoring them. Work on the defence again in the week.

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One of the best/shittest halfs of football I've ever seen.

 

One of our best attacking performances in a long time combined with one of our most tragic defensive performances since two weeks ago.

 

Sums it up really. Sissoko has been very good.

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First time we've scored three in the first half for 3.5 years. :mackems:

 

Can't even think which game that was?

 

West Brom away.

 

The last time that NUFC actually played genuinely class football imo.

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