Because Newcastle have beat Sheff United doesn’t mean we should have beat them. They have conceded 3 goals with ten men.
Styles and work rate wins matches not previous results against other teams.
Excited about the remaining games. It’s good to have some Premier League Football back.
I am optimistic because this is like a 2nd season. Just a mini tournament. The players should be better in terms of communication, understanding and tactics.
The excuse of gelling together is now void.
We now can really see what these players are made out of at this level bar Grealish, Mings & McGinn.
I can’t help but think that the Sha have produced some very good players from the academy. Redmond, Gray, Butland, Bellingham.
Local lads that could have come from our academy. We need to do better in that department.
Interesting points to consider.
Dean Smith needs to be more proactive in terms of game management.
He needs to be able to make changes before something bad happens.
Another point is he said that our running stats are through the roof. But our players are unable to uphold their intensity towards the end of the match.
Many things contribute to being a top coach. Being able to close a team out whilst winning and settling for a 2-1 victory is also one of them.
I don’t think that we are a poor side. I think that we are at best a mid table team that play some decent football.
We are in for a relegation battle which is nothing new. What we lack is real quality to see us through some games. We need 5/6 wins before the window reopens.
DS needs to be more assertive when it comes to making decisions. We need another striker to compliment or challenge Wesley and we need a wide forward.
We could have won that game but poor decisions were made from the bench.
I’m very pissed off with that result.
Burnley are a physical and robust team.
We need to win that game.
He has been below par this season.
He has not produced so far, it is very early in the season but he needs to deliver something.
He is playing way too deep to be having any type of impact on this game.
Personally I’ve been fed up with the National team malarky. He is nowhere near that level:
4 games - 1 win and 3 losses.
Am I worried? Slightly but not overly.
We equalised in an away game with 10 players. The difference was out of our control.
We won’t be going down without a fight I know that for certain.
Suso and his team are probably scouting for for a wide player, striker and left back as we speak.
We will end up throwing money at this squad in January if we are in the bottom 3.
If he has a good season and we stay up we may struggle to keep him.
He could go to United, Liverpool, Arsenal , Spurs or Chelsea.
With our owners we could easily get £70 million for him.
I think he had a decent game and was a handful against spurs.
Naturally he is going to be compared to Joelinton & Haller this season because of their physicality and price.
We should be patient with him.
Elmo started because physically he was appropriate for this game. He is more disciplined defensively than Guilbert. Elmo is an international and a decent player at this level.
Taylor impressed me. He won a lot of tackles and he did very well.
The other two full backs now need to grasp their chance when given.