Match Thread Newcastle United v Everton - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[Bob Latchford]

Alli is an easy scapegoat but he’s going to find it tough to get back to form amongst this shower

 

[Feathers79]

Geordies now have Burn, Trippier and Targett in a new look back line...

With Howe not being the best defensive coach and this being their first match together i can see our 3 quick attackers turning them over.

Mina should shackle Wood...with their main threat being Maximin...

I think we score 3 against them...

Total [Poor language removed] again tonight to many players in starting 11 just don’t want it enough or care about this great club pisses me off they are on large amounts of £ for playing [Poor language removed] football hopefully frank will out a few of these donkeys and there’s a few of them ?

 

[gianthogweed]

The 2 subs was a body blow the team lost any real pace when Gray went off

 

[RomanReigns]

Newcastle could have had 6 tonight

The formation we played tonight was horrendous the team looked like they had no clue what to do with the ball

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

Do we have a player capable of stopping ASM?

Seriously... Keane and Holgate are utter S...

 

[roy vernon]

Yet again I thought Tony Gordon was our best player, but, that really was uncomfortable watching. Anybody who thinks we are not in a relegation fight is deluded. A win against Leeds is a must for us now, I'm not sure how we do that because Leeds, with their high tempo style, are exactly the kind of team we struggle against.

 

[Curtis]

We just collapse when teams apply a press

 

[blueblueskies]

No left back and then losing Gray and Mina didn’t help at all. Need DCL back and put Richy on the left

 

[blu87554]

They have absolutely no protection from our snail-like midfield.

Our 2 midfielders got easely covered by Newcastle, and frank didnt do anything about it.

 

[Dykovski200]

Spot on. They got stuck in and diced with potential red cards but it worked for them. We backed off completely.

Once Gordon got crunched we hardly saw him after.

 

[daza_1973]

That game matches the crushing disappointment of seeing the phantom menace when I was a teen

How wuud lol

 

[Dublin blue 75]

The Brentford game was a Cup tie, the Newcastle United game was a Cup final and we were found wanting. Welcome to Everton Frank Lampard.

This. When there is no pressure, occasionally we deliver. There will be pressure for every league game remaining now. Past history suggests we could then conceivably not win another game for the remainder of the season. Seasoned bottlers this shameless bunch of failure specialists.

 

[Fansince1988]

We were bullied out of that, early injuries didn’t help matters.

Great game for Lampard to see our problems first hand, yes we were bullied, we can’t play just Allan and Gomes together it doesn’t work. I would imagine VDB will play with Allan in the next game.

 

[zukai12_]

Getting properly worried now

 

[Mashtray]

Only positive really is the DVN walks into that midfield.

Doucs too when he's back