Stottie Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Spurs play today, then Man City home to Liverpool and Brighton home to Brentford before we play this match. Brentford have only lost five games all season. Hopefully Toney plays Brighton and then gets banned so he can't play us. Anyway, by the time this one comes around, we may have had some helpful other results and be in a stronger position. Miggy doesn't sound good, but I hope Gordon is fit enough for the bench. We've been a bit Jeckyl and Hyde recently, mostly good but with errors that we didn't see earlier in the season creeping in. Another one just yesterday. It's understandable as the pressure cranks up. I hope the crowd are up for it and not nervy as we saw at the Carabao Cup home semi. That seemed to translate onto the pitch. This is not a game we actually need to win. It's only three out of thirty six points available. I'd put Joelinton back in, play Willock left, and go back to the ol' high press. Their big threat is Rashford in behind, so don't give anyone the freedom of SJP to play him in as happened with remarkable ease between Trent and Nunez in the Liverpool game. Get some defensive solidity back and leave the rest up to the Swedish wonder. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 1 hour ago, Shak said: If Almiron is out for 6 weeks then that takes us to more or less the end of April, sadly. Bugger - scratch what I said re Miggy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufc123 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Joelinton will come back in on the left side. Howe wont bench any of the midfielders. Lots of running legs and strenght, and Joelinton will help Burn against their trickery wingers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Yep ASM for Joelinton the only change. Hopefully Gordon back on the bench to give us some depth back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 3 hours ago, HaydnNUFC said: This may be a bit of an emotional one for the family as we're taking my grandad to this one whose 89 now and doesn't get out too much after my grandma died 18 months ago. He started going to games in 1957 after his service in the army ended but hasn't been since 2006ish. The first video in the OP is the first game he ever took my dad to, paid 6 shilling to get in and stood on the Gallowgate. Felt fitting that his first game in ages was this fixture. Hope you all have a class day. Just throwing this in there for the craic. My Granda was similar towards the end of his life, couldn’t afford to go very much but followed the toon relentlessly until the day he died, always talking about it, etc. The last game he and I went to together was when the mackems beat us 0-3 ?One of the many, many things for which I will never forgive Alan Pardew. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 It doesn't matter what form we're in, I always fancy us against Man United at home. Brilliant chance for us to make our mark in this, hopefully we don't pick up any more injuries Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLvOR Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Think we'll smash them. Totally different side without Casemiro Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinky Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 12 hours ago, HaydnNUFC said: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11246209/newcastle-1-0-manchester-united-matt-ritchie-goal-lifts-magpies Roy Keene.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Pope Trippier Schar Botman Burn Bruno Longstaff Willock Murphy Joelinton Isak 3-0 Isak hatty. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KetsbaiaIsBald Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 I think we’re going to beat them. Final revenge in a game where the players nerves are gone and they can open up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Harder game to predict with the longer break. If it wasn’t for that I’d have a funny feeling that we’d beat these comfortably and I’m never confident predicting a NUFC win. Just hope we don’t lose this 2 game winning momentum because of an International break. It’s a key game to win however we do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Hope wor flags have something big planned. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Warthog Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Would love to see us beat these arrogant twats. But we can't underestimate them - they know how to beat us tbf. We'll have to be at our very best to make it happen. A win would really put us in an unbelievable position. HTL... we can do it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWN Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 This is a cup final. Let's do it 1-0 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Loved the spirit shown by the team last couple of matches. The bench was uninspiring against Forest though. So I am thinking either a satisfying revenge victory, 3-0 will do it, or a ‘look how close we were/are’ message to the piggy-bank smashers. Because win this and we are finishing fourth, with all the profile, class of players and finances that can bring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy84 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 2 hours ago, GWN said: This is a cup final. Let's do it 1-0 Yeah this is definitely the real quiz, Toon win Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Butcher Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Stupid fucking celebration. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 27 minutes ago, Froggy said: Bless Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 23 hours ago, STM said: Yep ASM for Joelinton the only change. Hopefully Gordon back on the bench to give us some depth back. Is Gordon injured? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieDazzler Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Feels like there’s been a momentum shift, crowd needs to play their part making it feel like Arsenal at home last season. That was one of the few games I knew we were going to win from the first kick. There players will have the fire in their belly. I always find we come back from these warm weather camps absolutely on it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 49 minutes ago, duo said: Is Gordon injured? Possibly. They said about 3 weeks and Man Utd will be 3 weeks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosstef Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Sounds like Eriksen will be back for them after the international break. Can't imagine he'll be ready to start though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 10 hours ago, Froggy said: Not quite sure what you are implying with that gif but I will stick my neck out here and predict a huge Toon win. I will be on here afterwards, I hope you are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stottie Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 18 hours ago, GeordieDazzler said: Feels like there’s been a momentum shift, crowd needs to play their part making it feel like Arsenal at home last season. That was one of the few games I knew we were going to win from the first kick. There players will have the fire in their belly. I always find we come back from these warm weather camps absolutely on it. Yes, no nervy crowd please. This game must be about what we can win, not what we may lose. Fulham were set up to beat a very strong Man U team at OT yesterday, but lost on a catastrophic error, the kind of thing that can happen to anyone but is especially common for panicky teams lacking self-belief. With Spurs drawing from two goals ahead, that's the first piece falling into place. Setbacks for Liverpool and Brighton in their games mentioned above would also help a lot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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