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  On 28/10/2023 at 19:05, Newcastle Fan said:

Superb today as  he has been of late but he needs to be careful about trying to win too many fouls as the one that didn't go his way towards the end could've cost us, same goes for Longstaff.

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Aye. Bruno is usually quite good at it. But makes it too obvious at times.
 

Longstaff wins a lot of fouls, too. But he is so unconvincing and needs to stop in the wrong areas. To the point where for Pope’s double save against Dortmund. He actually did get fouled. But it looked like a massive dive :lol: he was looking over his shoulder wanting the contact. Then seemed to go down like a mortgage. 

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Yeah, I thought he was brilliant first half and then in the latter part of the second he was quite sloppy, where he was looking for the foul even though there was a passing option available

 

Overall though he's in really good form, just need him to maintain that after an average start to the season

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  On 29/10/2023 at 11:21, MrRaspberryJam said:


agreed. Looked really on it first half. Wish he’d stop chucking himself to the ground to buy a cheap free kick, the refs aren’t buying it. 

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He was finding himself surrounded by players closing him down. In the first half he always found a way out and that set us up for some great plays, in the second half he was getting caught more and then trying to buy a free kick.

 

Hard to know if that was him tiring or not enough options to pass the ball to someone else. I think he needs others to get closer to him instead of waiting for him to do something clever.

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  On 29/10/2023 at 18:02, gbandit said:

Quite, not sure it needs spelling out though. He plays in the most pivotal role in our side and he’s our best player or a top three performer in almost all games (accounting for a dip in form due to his ankle previously)

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Yea, it is obvious, but now that he has started to play better, we are starting to get a grip of games. Of course we are now playing against easier teams than in the start.

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  On 29/10/2023 at 11:05, Lush Vlad said:


Aye. Bruno is usually quite good at it. But makes it too obvious at times.
 

Longstaff wins a lot of fouls, too. But he is so unconvincing and needs to stop in the wrong areas. To the point where for Pope’s double save against Dortmund. He actually did get fouled. But it looked like a massive dive :lol: he was looking over his shoulder wanting the contact. Then seemed to go down like a mortgage. 

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Longstaff is always diving these days.  When he doesn’t know where to go he’ll just fall down. 

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I think his ability to buy a foul is a real talent, and speaks of his ball control and vision - though I do think you’ll get refs like the one at the weekend who’ll stop blowing for FKs after a while, particularly if they may have made a controversial decision against the other team earlier in the game.  When that starts happening, he needs to knock it on the head and start releasing the ball.

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  On 29/10/2023 at 11:05, Lush Vlad said:

Longstaff wins a lot of fouls, too. But he is so unconvincing and needs to stop in the wrong areas. To the point where for Pope’s double save against Dortmund. He actually did get fouled. But it looked like a massive dive :lol: he was looking over his shoulder wanting the contact. Then seemed to go down like a mortgage

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Not quite the simile I was expecting.

 

 

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