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Pre-Season 2018/19: Newcastle United 0 - 1 FC Augsburg (FT)


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Things that stand out:

 

Mitrovic's ball control is woeful, as his ability to know when to shoot.

 

Atsu and Richie look sharp

 

Shelvey running things from deep, it's clear he is going to be played as a holding midfielder.

 

Wolfsburg are shite.

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This Jorman lot are absolutely terrible. If this is most of their first team, I might stick a bet on them to get relegated.

 

EDIT: as good as 20/1 in places

 

Pretty sure they nearly went down last season, didn't they win the relegation play off?

 

Yeah, won in the playoffs. Pretty sure this is a mix of a starters and squad players

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Our positioning and judgement of when to press and when to drop into two banks of four is really, really impressive.  At times we have stolen the ball high up the pitch and countered, but other times we've just got back into our compact defensive shape which allowed Wolfsburg to spend a few minutes aimlessly passing it around their midfield with no clue as to how to open us up. 

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Our positioning and judgement of when to press and when to drop into two banks of four is really, really impressive.  At times we have stolen the ball high up the pitch and countered, but other times we've just got back into our compact defensive shape which allowed Wolfsburg to spend a few minutes aimlessly passing it around their midfield with no clue as to how to open us up. 

 

This is why I think we'll be fine regardless. We may not have the best squad but we've got one of the best managers. He'll have these drilled to fuck.

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