Newcastle United 2 - 1 Stoke City - 16/09/17 (post match reaction from p21)

[afar]

Well it is a horribly built squad, that i definitely agree with. When you look at us, we have a solid midfield pairing with a solid back 4 behind it, pace and guile on the wings and work rate upfront.

 

There's a lot of things we lack but we are definitely balanced, something the like of Stoke can't really say.

 

Disagree that they're unbalanced like. They've got a great keeper, a solid back three, Pieters is solid, Johnson would be a better fit at RWB than Diouf mind. A solid enough midfield with a cracking playmaker, they lack a top striker mind.

 

Easy to forget these beat Arsenal, were unlucky not to beat Man U who are trouncing everyone at the moment, and should have won at WBA who are giving bugger all away before we played them.

 

They were lucky to get a point at WBA, it was a smash and grab affair. Agree with you on beating Arsenal was a great result (although they were very fortunate, it was constant Arsenal pressure and they had a perfectly good goal ruled out for a phantom offside). They would have been lucky to beat Manure, a draw was a fair result, still a very good performance though against a team bang on form, who are putting away the goals and stopping them going in.

[Ameritoon]

They're a decent team, but nothing above average. I don't think anyone is going to be showing them respect and sitting back just because they have one or two hit-or-miss attackers who can be great every few matches.

[Figures 1-0 Football]

As good as anything outside the top 7.

 

[louistoon]

It's actually quite funny tbh, what's the point of buying loads of attacking midfielders if the CMs you buy are utterly garbage. As critical as i am of the likes of Shaqiri, Jese, Bojan etc etc, how stupid can you be to have CMs like Fletcher or Whelan behind them.

 

Utterly pointless.

 

Palace are a lot like that as well. Cabaye is past his best and there is no one else.