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Aston Villa 1-1 Newcastle United - 24/09/16, post match from pg. 27


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Rafa's grind out 1-0 mentality will absolutely never work for NUFC. He needs to change. ASAP.

 

It could work, just not with the payers we have.

 

Fairly sure we'd not lost a point from a winning position till today, all the players are drilled to defend well. Obviously it gets difficult if you put yourself under about 4 attacks in a row, the defence do need A rest. Mitrovic has done my head in there, not fussed what others say. All he needed to do was play it simple.

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Rafa caused that with the subs. Hayden clearly uncomfortable playing rightback and there is no point bringing Mitro on when the players you need to feed off him have dropped 20 yards deeper.

 

Would have taken the point before the game though, key thing was to not lose two league games in a row

 

Yep, can't understand why Tiote is even in the team. He was completely the wrong player to bring on as we were going to get pushed further back

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Rafa caused that with the subs. Hayden clearly uncomfortable playing rightback and there is no point bringing Mitro on when the players you need to feed off him have dropped 20 yards deeper.

 

Would have taken the point before the game though, key thing was to not lose two league games in a row

 

Who else are putting RB though? Someone had to fill in there.

 

Bringing on Tiote was more the issue. Lost all legs in the middle.

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Rafa's grind out 1-0 mentality will absolutely never work for NUFC. He needs to change. ASAP.

 

Gayle missed a one-on-one and Diame scuffed a sitter! That's why we didn't win.

Those misses were beyond ridiculous, just not good enough. We needed 3 points today

 

 

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Rafa caused that with the subs. Hayden clearly uncomfortable playing rightback and there is no point bringing Mitro on when the players you need to feed off him have dropped 20 yards deeper.

 

Would have taken the point before the game though, key thing was to not lose two league games in a row

 

Who else are putting RB though? Someone had to fill in there.

The fact that Lazaar wasnt put on speaks volumes

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Rafa's grind out 1-0 mentality will absolutely never work for NUFC. He needs to change. ASAP.

 

Gayle missed a one-on-one and Diame scuffed a sitter! That's why we didn't win.

 

Diame also missed that strange situation where Ritchie's shot was blocked, fell to Yedlin who passed it to him right at the penalty spot and he skied....expectation should be fore an attackerto put that on frame. Not sitter status but a golden chance.

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Rafa's grind out 1-0 mentality will absolutely never work for NUFC. He needs to change. ASAP.

 

Gayle missed a one-on-one and Diame scuffed a sitter! That's why we didn't win.

 

Aye and then we opted to kill that potential threat and sit back on 1-0. It will never work for Newcastle United.

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Probably get members crying here, but sick of this defiance from Rafa sticking with this one up top bullshit. It's not working that well, And it's hardly necessary in this league to play with one up top, when on paper or spend wise have one of the strongest back four's in the league. Gayle needs Mitrovic next to him so he can make dummy runs pick up scraps and give opposing back 4's something to think about with both strikers in the box,Diame isn't offering anything as a number 10.

 

Also if your playing one up top, why keep starting games with the smallest figure? We have Mitrovic & Murphy both over 6ft, but choose the 5"8 Gayle?

 

We just don't appear adventurous in this league, I thought end of last season we would be really aggressive going forward in this league, bully sides, but it doesn't appear so.

 

Can't really pick on players, because I'm starting to think it's how we are setting up.

 

 

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Sels inability to deal with aerial threats was always going to cost us at some point, he's just not progressing in that area and you've got to start question him getting in the team ahead of Darlow now.

 

Clearly Diame and Gayle does not work, it's been our worst front line so far this season and we paid the price today with poor finishes from them both. Mitrovic and Perez have to play midweek, they deserve the chance after another woeful display.

 

We only have ourselves to blame after today, Villa were there for the taking, so poor in the first half and with the chances we created when we were on top we should have been comfortable for the win at half time.

 

On the balance of play a draw is probably a fair result, it's just a kick in the teeth when the first half it looked like there was only one team in it.

 

We can't dwell on it too much, we need to get back at it and get a win midweek against Norwich, last week most of us would have taken 4 points from the 2 games, given other results this is now imperative to keep in distance of the top of the league. The next few months see us having some easy games on paper and we need to make a charge to the top of the table.

 

It's not the end of the world but it's another setback in what's proving to be a more difficult campaign than most of us anticipated.

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Rafa caused that with the subs. Hayden clearly uncomfortable playing rightback and there is no point bringing Mitro on when the players you need to feed off him have dropped 20 yards deeper.

 

Would have taken the point before the game though, key thing was to not lose two league games in a row

 

Who else are putting RB though? Someone had to fill in there.

The fact that Lazaar wasnt put on speaks volumes

 

You want to put a left back that struggled on his debut in a new league on in an unfamiliar position in a game where we've ended up severely on the back foot? Doesn't say much at all to me.

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Rafa's grind out 1-0 mentality will absolutely never work for NUFC. He needs to change. ASAP.

 

Gayle missed a one-on-one and Diame scuffed a sitter! That's why we didn't win.

 

While that's true, the reason we didn't create more chances like that was because of the sit deep and soak up pressure attitude. We'll drop more points than we'll keep with this mentality.

 

We deserved everything we got because of the mentality, there's absolutely no reason considering how shit they were in the first half to sit deep and give them the confidence to get back into the game and invite pressure on us.

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Knew they were gonna equalise after we missed the chances that we did. It was totally on the cards.

 

We bossed the first half but let Villa come into it in the second.

 

We have to win now on Wednesday against Norwich. Lose to them and we have some massive catching up to do.

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