Newcastle United 1-0 Southampton (17/08/24)

[Danh1]

Just now, huss9 said:

better level of pre season opposition last year?

Valid point. Them games in America were like league games the way we played. 

[huss9]

Just now, Danh1 said:

Valid point. Them games in America were like league games the way we played. 

and the heat in japan was different level also.

[Superior Acuña]

Love Joelinton’s totally ungraceful celebrations

[HaydnNUFC]

7 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

Think it’s harsh to say he didn’t look interested personally. Was definitely not himself and didn’t play well at all, but he hasn’t had a pre season.

 

Agree that they were shite despite keeping the ball (means nowt). Was also concerned at how poor we looked prior to the red card. No intensity or anything, was like night and day compared to Villa at home first game last season. 

 

Thought that. Even against Forest 2 years back; play off winners at home like today. Night and day compared to today in terms of level of performance. A little vexing.

 

 

Edited August 17, 2024 by HaydnNUFC

[Mattoon]

Gordon just spent the summer wasting away on Southgates bench and barely had a kick pre-season so he's probably a little confidence knocked and rusty. Give him a month and he'll be tearing it up again.

 

Don't think there was a lack of effort from him fwiw, he put a shift in when we went down to 10 and his role changed, he was just off it today, but then who wasn't? 

 

 

Edited August 17, 2024 by Mattoon

[Danh1]

9 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

 

Thought that. Even against Forest 2 years back; play off winners at home like today. Night and day compared to today in terms of level of performance. A little vexing.

 

 

 

We were just sloppy and as if we were going through the motions. Not often we are like that.

 

 

[Joelinton7]

One of their coaches pushing Eddie against the wall. Since when did Southampton become so horribly small time. Comes from their manager I’d imagine. 
 

 

[LFEE]

Thought Southampton were good. Definitely their setup give us problems. All over the pitch they seemed that bit sharper. They dealt with the physical presence of Joelinton well also whoever it was they put up against him.

 

Of the three opening games under EH definitely our poorest. Thankfully they pretty much gifted us our only opportunity which we did well to punish.

 

AG not at the races. Body language not the best either but hopefully overthinking it.

 

Didnt understand the red card if the other got a yellow. Either both red. Both yellow. If one is a red then you can’t give a yellow to the other. Just doesn’t make sense.

 

Back four did well and Hall subbed at right time. Quite telling Trippier got no game time though again maybe overthinking.

 

Midfield was poor. Bruno way off the pace. Longstaff similar. Joelinton held us together.

 

Not really the game to judge the forward line. Isak did well for the goal. Wide forwards did very little.

 

Very good three points all things considered.

 

 

[Shadow Puppets]

12 minutes ago, Joelinton7 said:

One of their coaches pushing Eddie against the wall. Since when did Southampton become so horribly small time. Comes from their manager I’d imagine. 
 

 

Don’t think that’s Eddie.

[Rod]

1 hour ago, HaydnNUFC said:

Good result given the circumstances of the game and although I would've probably taken a point after the sending off I certainly wouldn't have done at half time after realising just how poor of a side they were. They really aren't a good side. Which makes the (limited sample of) performance of the first 25 minutes a bit more galling.

 

What did people think of Gordon's performance btw? Many around me thought he didn't look interested.

He was poor to be honest.

[Pata]

21 minutes ago, Joelinton7 said:

One of their coaches pushing Eddie against the wall. Since when did Southampton become so horribly small time. Comes from their manager I’d imagine. 
 

 

 

Pretty sure it's Tindall doing the pushing ffs. God I hate social media, trying to make a big deal out of everything.

 

 

Edited August 17, 2024 by Pata

[The Bonk]

Funny that we have a healthy animosity towards these lot as they couldn’t be further away from us as a club or city.

 

Those League Cup games had some spice and that’s carried into today. 

[Joelinton7]

9 minutes ago, Shadow Puppets said:

Don’t think that’s Eddie.

Can’t tell tbh, just went off what the post said 

[80]

3 points, which is all that will really be remembered of this in months to come. Glad we ground the result out, could prove vital in May. Think Pope was really the difference between a win and one of our February-March performances.

[Mag_in_NZ]

10 hours ago, OCK said:

 

You watching Boro classics or something?

 

Watched the game in Hong Kong…….google word predict & translate’s a bit dodgy here 🤔🤣

 

 

Edited August 18, 2024 by Mag_in_NZ

[Danh1]

1 hour ago, The Bonk said:

Funny that we have a healthy animosity towards these lot as they couldn’t be further away from us as a club or city.

 

Those League Cup games had some spice and that’s carried into today. 

Their board is a good read. Bitter, as you can imagine. 

[Disco]

1 hour ago, The Bonk said:

Funny that we have a healthy animosity towards these lot as they couldn’t be further away from us as a club or city.

 

Those League Cup games had some spice and that’s carried into today. 

It’s the most nowt place you could ever hope to visit n all. Their club is the perfect representation of the city. 

 

6 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

Their board is a good read. Bitter, as you can imagine. 

#AnnounceLink

[Alberts Mustache]

Deck that clown. 

 

 

Edited August 18, 2024 by Alberts Mustache

[Conjo]

2 hours ago, LFEE said:

Thought Southampton were good. Definitely their setup give us problems. All over the pitch they seemed that bit sharper

 

 

 

Think that is the classic first game of the season for a newly promoted team simply outworking the established team. With the exception of working harder than us and being extremely cynical/dirty with their constant shirt and arm pulling, they were very unimpressive I thought. Will be a massive achievement for them if they somehow manage to stay up.

 

11v11 I think we eventually would have won more comfortably than we did as they got more and more tired.

[80]

21 minutes ago, Conjo said:

 

Think that is the classic first game of the season for a newly promoted team simply outworking the established team. With the exception of working harder than us and being extremely cynical/dirty with their constant shirt and arm pulling, they were very unimpressive I thought. Will be a massive achievement for them if they somehow manage to stay up.

 

11v11 I think we eventually would have won more comfortably than we did as they got more and more tired.

Yes, you can't keep missing chances like that and stay up. Was the kind of game they'll probably rue in a few months.

[KingArthur]

9 hours ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

We weren’t really bad FFS. Half an hour of the first game of the season. 

Yea, I mean at home against promoted team. They kept the ball really well and our press didnt work. We dropped to 4-5-1 quite quickly. 
 

I have no doubt we would have been better as the game went on, but suurelta it is not wrong to critize the first half an hour? It was also first game for Southampton. 

[Coffee_Johnny]

6 hours ago, LFEE said:

Thought Southampton were good. Definitely their setup give us problems. All over the pitch they seemed that bit sharper. They dealt with the physical presence of Joelinton well also whoever it was they put up against him.

 

Of the three opening games under EH definitely our poorest. Thankfully they pretty much gifted us our only opportunity which we did well to punish.

 

AG not at the races. Body language not the best either but hopefully overthinking it.

 

Didnt understand the red card if the other got a yellow. Either both red. Both yellow. If one is a red then you can’t give a yellow to the other. Just doesn’t make sense.

 

Back four did well and Hall subbed at right time. Quite telling Trippier got no game time though again maybe overthinking.

 

Midfield was poor. Bruno way off the pace. Longstaff similar. Joelinton held us together.

 

Not really the game to judge the forward line. Isak did well for the goal. Wide forwards did very little.

 

Very good three points all things considered.

 

 

Gordon, Isak and Bruno not quite clicking into their game is a concern. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen too many times. 

[WilliamPS]

2 minutes ago, Coffee_Johnny said:

Gordon, Isak and Bruno not quite clicking into their game is a concern. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen too many times. 

Is it a concern?

 

We already know they can play well together. What extra information is there from the first game of this season versus 40 odd games last season?

[LiquidAK]

I don't think there's any need to read into the first 28 minutes of the season and jump to negative conclusions about how the rest will go. We had plenty of games last year where we started slow and turned it on in the second half to get the win, not to mention the understandable caveat of rust on the part of one of our key players (Gordon).

 

Our defensive resilience over the 90 was very encouraging though. Reminded me of the season we got Top 4 - uncomfortable viewing but there was ALWAYS someone in the right place to block a shot or make a tackle. Could've played another 90 and I don't think Southampton were scoring.

[Ben]

With all things considered, it's a cracking 3 points.