Newcastle United 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur (01/09/24) | Reaction: pg 48 | Goal posts: OP

[Funtime Frankie]

1 minute ago, Kid Icarus said:

Thank fuck. Incredibly lucky papering over the cracks result. Not a good performance and not a good feel about us at the moment.

 

Hopefully the result, us being on a run, and the international break gives us some time and space to regroup, get players back, and find who we are again. 

 

Pope: 8.5

Livramento: 7

Krafth: 7.5

Burn: 4.5 (generally solid but had some bad moments)

Kelly: 6

Bruno: 7

Joelinton: 6.5

Longstaff: 7 Tonali: 7

Gordon: 5 - seriously needs to get out of this sulk he's in

Isak: 6.5

Barnes: 7.5

 

 

 

 

Harsh on Burn, I thought he was good except for own goal and once again.

 

Agree on Gordon's low score

[Holloway]

Deserved win is the strangest take of the day. We dug deep but were very jammy there

[Ste]

Spurs forum is mildly amusing. One guy says they can't afford to play Romero in big games. 

[STM]

Including the cup game, in each one of our games we've looked:

 

Very good in spells

God awful in spells

Showed amazing character

 

I've always been told by cunts like Roy Keane that good sides can play poorly and win games, so I'd be interested to know if that applies to us.

 

We are absolutely know where near our best but all of the pitch we have players battling for their positions for a change.

 

A really good start results wise. If Eddie can get some extra fitness work in their legs and remind them of how good they can be on the ball then we can absolutely compete with Spurs and Co for Europe.....

 

... and yes, had we signed a couple it would have helped. 

[STM]

4 minutes ago, Peppe said:

Unbeaten baby! (Like most babies should be) 

[Theregulars]

Seems to be a strategy for now - first 20 mins and last 20 mins, then hold on for dear life in the middle. I guess that's the energy levels. 

 

Incredible win, brilliant aspects, Howe is a man mountain; another ropey performance and Spurs should have been out of sight.

[Karjala]

Worst performance at SJP under Howe, somehow got 3 points.

[Adrian1881]

Lucky us. It's a history of Tottenham LOL. I can't believe those Fu... haven't scored more than one    LOL. So happy today   .

[Upthemags]

Just now, TheBrownBottle said:

Incredibly harsh on BDB for me - thought he was better than Bruno, Longstaff, Isak in terms of performance - and Pope was as much at fault for the goal 

That ball was not hitting the back of the net as Pope had gotten enough on it to bat it away. Spurs didn't deserve a goal for the quality of the opportunities they created. Game of fine margins this one so a poor score for Burn feels warranted.

[wallsendlad1952]

34 minutes ago, Pata said:

Why the fuck is everyone losing the ball constantly?

Maybe it's as a result of our newly created position of a Director of performance. Pfft

[STM]

1 minute ago, Holloway said:

Deserved win is the strangest take of the day. We dug deep but were very jammy there

 

We could have been pumped 5-1 in that 10 minute spell, no doubt. Not our problem if they can't finish. 

[Yorkie]

Pope - 6. 

 

Livramento - 6 (but got better)

Krafth - 6. 

Burn - 7. 

Kelly - 7. 

 

Bruno - 6.

Joelinton - 6.

Longstaff - 7.

 

Barnes - 7.

Isak - 6 (saved a dire performance)

Gordon - 5.

[Ghandis Flip-Flop]

1 minute ago, Holloway said:

Deserved win is the strangest take of the day. We dug deep but were very jammy there

I see what you mean but at the same time it took some comical defending from us to allow Spurs to score. They were very like Southampton with better quality, almost everything was in front of us and they relied on shots from distance. Their keeper made more proper saves than Pope unless my memory is playing tricks on me

[Kid Icarus]

3 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Incredibly harsh on BDB for me - thought he was better than Bruno, Longstaff, Isak in terms of performance - and Pope was as much at fault for the goal 

Like I say I thought he was solid but had some big mistakes that put us in danger, and scored an own goal.

[Conjo]

It wasn't so much Spurs playing well today as us playing really bad with the ball when I think about it, and we knew Tottenham are very vulnerable to counters and punished them for an obvious weakness.....so......fair enough result?

[STM]

5 minutes ago, Upthemags said:

Statement win.

 

I like matchday Upthemags 

[Keefaz]

Pick the bones out of that. Jesus Christ. Can't think of any stand-out performance. Burn was great until he wasn't.

[TheBrownBottle]

1 minute ago, Upthemags said:

That ball was not hitting the back of the net as Pope had gotten enough on it to bat it away. Spurs didn't deserve a goal for the quality of the opportunities they created. Game of fine margins this one so a poor score for Burn feels warranted.

Pope does his job in the first place and he doesn’t need to bat away the follow-up

[STM]

Burn was absolutely class... until he wasn't. Don't know if that helps.

[Upthemags]

Just now, STM said:

 

I like matchday Upthemags 

Time to press on mate

[Taylor Swift]

Start the next match thread please. 

[Wolfcastle]

Spurs weren't much better than Southampton and Bournemouth really, the problem lies within us clearly.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2024 by Wolfcastle

[Kid Icarus]

4 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

Nowt three wins out of four can't go some way to curing. 

 

It was critical that we came out of today having not fueled the bubbling toxicity. The lads made sure of it. 

 

Fucking GET IN. 

You'd hope so, but I'd also argue that the growing concern (not toxicity) isn't limited to the fans either.

[bobbydazzla]

3 minutes ago, Karjala said:

Worst performance at SJP under Howe, somehow got 3 points.

[Guybrush]

9 minutes ago, Peppe said:

Unbeaten baby! (Like most babies should be) 

Most?!