Newcastle United 2-0 Nottingham Forest (06/08/2022)

[wormy]

6 minutes ago, Skeletor said:

Reading other forums to see how our performance was viewed and the overwhelming comment I see on every forum is "Why haven't Newcastle spent more this season/signed anyone?"

 

I know it's irrational but such musings piss me off. If we had spent money half of them would be fuming at us 'buying' success.

 

Proper fuck 'em all mentality only enhanced by a lovely, confident opening day. 

[OoOGazOoO]

Those 2 goals were quality!!

 

An absolute worldie from Schar and such a clever finish from Wilson, that amazing strikers instinct he displayed there.

 

Cracking start.

[Doc]

26 minutes ago, xLiaaamx said:

Don't think much of that Brennan Johnson. Never seen a more invisible player. 

Is confusing me here, must admit I've had a couple.

[Dinho lad]

two lush goals. 

[andyman]

Fantastic start to the season! Can't remember last time I felt less nervous throughout a game.

[Tiresias]

has anyone started a comparative points graph with last season

[KaKa]

8 minutes ago, wormy said:

 

I know it's irrational but such musings piss me off. If we had spent money half of them would be fuming at us 'buying' success.

 

Proper fuck 'em all mentality only enhanced by a lovely, confident opening day. 

 

I love it. They were all expecting us to spend like crazy so they could not give us any credit for any good play this season, but instead scream about Saudi riches.

 

Instead they will be forced to recognise the amazing job Howe and the players have done when we end up doing well this season without going mad in the transfer market.

[alexf]

Absolutely smothered them all game. 

Bruno and Joelinton are great. 

Really liked how we moved the ball around and got it to saint-maximin and Almiron in good areas. 

Only concern was our finishing was poor at times and Wilson seemed to be on his heels alittle too much today, especially first half.

But couldn't ask for a better opening day performance really from all involved.

[joeyt]

44 minutes ago, xLiaaamx said:

Don't think much of that Brennan Johnson. Never seen a more invisible player. 

 

Aye let's write off one of the best young talents after his first Prem game

[RodneyCisse]

Should we have been worried given they had Colback starting…

[samptime29]

We definitely got the ball wide effectively at times. Some nice shielding and quick lay offs aswell.

[PRL]

Got to go back to when we did Stoke 3-0 in the season we finished 5th for the last time I’ve seen us that dominant at home.
 

Wilson looked a little unfit but still dangerous throughout. Pope had a couple of flaps. Other than that thought we were pretty much flawless. Atmosphere was great, ASM was absolute quality and forest could handle us from minute 1 to 90. 
 

Hot take - unless forest do something, they could be in running for a record low points total 

[Paullow]

7 minutes ago, Tiresias said:

has anyone started a comparative points graph with last season

 

We've picked up as many points already as Bruce did in his 8 games prior to his sacking 

[buzza]

Stand outs today for me were the five midfielders.

defence was solid and not worried by forest.

nice goal by calum otherwise I would have said he had a very average game

[Kanj]

Not sure how anyone here could say a negative word about any of those performances today.- it was the first match of the season and we pummeled them. We suffocated and dominated and pushed and tried different ways to get that ball into the box. We were patient at times - working the ball around the box and trying to drive in and deliver crosses etc. 

 

Sure, a few rolls across the box to Wilson and we’d have been free and clear but the fact we are constantly and finally passing and moving is fantastic. Miggy is a fucking handful! Willock was floating all over the pitch and trying to make things work. Bruno and Joelinton were dominant. I loved the effort. We looked confident, the crowd did not get on their backs and get frustrated either. 

 

We’re going to be a force at home ffs. 

[Happinesstan]

9 minutes ago, Paullow said:

 

We've picked up as many points already as Bruce did in his 8 games prior to his sacking 

I think we've earned a holiday to Portugal.

[Mike]

1 hour ago, HTT II said:

Brilliant performance and a great win, totally dominant. I thought Miggy was our best player quickly followed by Bruno. Joelinton was, well Joelinton. ASM was less huffy, more economical and looking to pass more. Wilson scored, but he was often isolated and anonymous which is a worry.

 

As dominant as we were, we did struggle to break them down and I worry about that, we clearly need attacking players and particularly a playmaker. I fear we will struggle against teams who do a Forest with 10 men behind the ball unless we get those players, otherwise we may need to rethink going back to more of a counter attacking team.

 

But that’s in our armour anyway and I’m sure we will continue to develop different tactics and game plans to suit whoever we play.

 

Willock had a very good game and I loved how interchangeable we were in terms of players swapping positions and roles, basically we were very fluid and some of our play was brilliant, until we got to their box where it was often Wilson alone in there. But we fully deserved that win and if Forest set up like that regularly they will go straight back down, they were piss poor.

 

Regarding our former old boy Colback, I thought he was their best player on and off the ball, never misplaced a pass, he did play it safe a lot mind, but tackled well and intercepted well off the ball. Lingard is clearly not match fit and did fuck all, but you could see in advanced positions his quality where he played a few key balls forward. I’m glad we dodged that one, however. 
 

All in all a great performance with some great football, playing much higher up, at a quicker tempo and we look super fit, united, organised, tactically switched on and every player is bang up for it, we cannot, however, rest on this, we need 2-3 extra high quality attacking additions badly.

 

Well done Howe, his staff, the players and Wor Flags for the display. How good is it to be back, the sun is shining, we won and this promises to be an exciting season based on this display. Howay The Lads!

 

 

 

 

 

 

You know we were shit hot when you stop to read an entire HTT post.

[NEEJ]

Any Premier League team that starts Jack Colback deserves to go down. Fuck them. 

[Kanj]

1 hour ago, HTT II said:

Brilliant performance and a great win, totally dominant. I thought Miggy was our best player quickly followed by Bruno. Joelinton was, well Joelinton. ASM was less huffy, more economical and looking to pass more. Wilson scored, but he was often isolated and anonymous which is a worry.

 

As dominant as we were, we did struggle to break them down and I worry about that, we clearly need attacking players and particularly a playmaker. I fear we will struggle against teams who do a Forest with 10 men behind the ball unless we get those players, otherwise we may need to rethink going back to more of a counter attacking team.

 

But that’s in our armour anyway and I’m sure we will continue to develop different tactics and game plans to suit whoever we play.

 

Willock had a very good game and I loved how interchangeable we were in terms of players swapping positions and roles, basically we were very fluid and some of our play was brilliant, until we got to their box where it was often Wilson alone in there. But we fully deserved that win and if Forest set up like that regularly they will go straight back down, they were piss poor.

 

Regarding our former old boy Colback, I thought he was their best player on and off the ball, never misplaced a pass, he did play it safe a lot mind, but tackled well and intercepted well off the ball. Lingard is clearly not match fit and did fuck all, but you could see in advanced positions his quality where he played a few key balls forward. I’m glad we dodged that one, however. 
 

All in all a great performance with some great football, playing much higher up, at a quicker tempo and we look super fit, united, organised, tactically switched on and every player is bang up for it, we cannot, however, rest on this, we need 2-3 extra high quality attacking additions badly.

 

Well done Howe, his staff, the players and Wor Flags for the display. How good is it to be back, the sun is shining, we won and this promises to be an exciting season based on this display. Howay The Lads!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good post mate, but i do really disagree on on struggling to break them down — they packed the box and stuck everyone behind the ball but what I found quite refreshing was the patience on display around the box. We were trying quick pass and move, give and go’s, decoy runs, slide in to the by-line, crossing, through balls or quick over tops to the wingers to get something in. In the past we sat around doing fuck all and then would take shots. I don’t want us to be a strictly counter attacking team because I genuinely do like seeing our guys figuring out and trying new things. Second half you could see clearly Howe let Miggy, Maxi, and Willock free and they were very fluid in attack.

 

It took a worldie from Schar to finally get ahead but I was hugely impressed overall with how we approached it. 

[Coffee_Johnny]

1 hour ago, LV said:

Great result, brilliant performance.

 

Lingard is dump. 

Is dump some kind of clever road man street way of saying good? Asking for a ‘friend’? 
 

Spoiler

 

[STM]

In fairness to Lingard he was involved in their only piece of quality, lovely through ball in the first half.

 

He's in a shite side. He's not great either mind but he's surrounded with champo plodders.

[sixx]

Not that they put us under much pressure but those little sparkles of quality to release the ball, evade pressure and keep possession is on a different level than I’ve seen for 20 odd years. Absolutely no one is scared of receiving the ball. Such a big difference.

 

Bruno and Joelinton were so, so good but everyone deserves credit. With the 5 substitutes we however need Almiron and Willock as impact players. Add a couple of quality players in their stead and we can do some serious damage this season.

[Guest HTT II]

7 minutes ago, Kanji said:

 

Good post mate, but i do really disagree on on struggling to break them down — they packed the box and stuck everyone behind the ball but what I found quite refreshing was the patience on display around the box. We were trying quick pass and move, give and go’s, decoy runs, slide in to the by-line, crossing, through balls or quick over tops to the wingers to get something in. In the past we sat around doing fuck all and then would take shots. I don’t want us to be a strictly counter attacking team because I genuinely do like seeing our guys figuring out and trying new things. Second half you could see clearly Howe let Miggy, Maxi, and Willock free and they were very fluid in attack.

 

It took a worldie from Schar to finally get ahead but I was hugely impressed overall with how we approached it. 

Aye, struggling to break them down was probably the wrong turn of phrase, more that we struggled to make our dominance count in terms of goals or proper shots at goal. On another day (with better players no doubt) with better placed passes and finishing it would have been 4 or 5.
 

I will say this, we wore them down like Man City do, we were relentless and they couldn’t deal with our press, our interceptions, quick play and our fluidity.  
 

That said, unless we sign some actual top level quality attacking players, and a better team than Forest put 10 men behind the ball like they did if we played them and we won’t win and could easily be picked off. It’s a fine margin I know and right now we got it right and that’s all you can ask.

 

I loved that we played 20 yards higher up despite no real pace at the back, pressed hard everywhere and looked for quick passing transitions while in an initial slow build up and especially when we intercepted the ball, we pounced on them constantly.

 

Whatever they’ve been working on in training during pre-season, it worked so well today, I’ve not seen us play like that under Howe last season, even against Arsenal at home. Not to this level anyway.

 

 

Edited August 6, 2022 by HTT II

[Kanj]

Spot on 100% @HTT II

[joeyt]

ahahaha