Match Day Thread Milan v The Returners

Get him off, Murphy and Longstaff

 

I would have taken 0-0 half time at the start.

Continue for another 15-20 minutes and then bring Wilson on

 

We look lethargic

 

I would say they've done well but once again it's glaringly obvious needs removing

 

Burn is unfathomably poor. No, sorry, what’s unfathomable is how we didn’t address it.

Yet again Isak isolated, Bruno doing nothing, Tonali doing the work of two men and Longstaff looking limited. Murphy is like a kid who won a competition, Gordon has his moments but is so raw. Pope shaky, Botman, Schar and trippier keeping us in it.

 

Not losing but on another night we could be 3 down.

The players are getting rinsed all over the pitch.

Where’s the leader. Some players are going turtle mode.

 

Have all season. But it’s Howe, nothing will change.

 

I agree. Unfortunately.

Needs to change this up second half. He won’t of course because we are not losing.

 

I suspect he's more likely to remove Gordon isak.

Burn offers absolutely nothing but everything is going through him. It's bizarre

 

Burn is just the absolute opposite of what you want in a modern LB.

Murphy has been fine, as he has been ever since Howe came in to Newcastle, hes just a decent player and I see no reason to get rid.

 

I'd take a draw 100%. If we can get 6-9 points in our home matches (huge ask of course) then it's about trying to get a result or two away from home to progress. In terms of players we're the 4th best team in this group, we can wish and hope for more but realistically this is a good score-line so far.

 

What’s frightening is this has been the pattern in every single match. If we’re just relying on having better players, we’ll struggle because you can have “worse” in a plan and easily beat us. Look at Brighton.

It’s alarming how EH seems to think if we do the exact same thing every week it’ll miraculously work. But not surprising - it’s exactly what he did at Bournemouth.

 

We did sign players, they're just apparently not allowed to play for us.

Hall and Livramento are monumental wastes of cash.

 

Players are getting frustrated with Burn. He is killing attacks.

We just aren't playing like we were last season. We really miss Willock.

 

Pretty accurate assessment to me.

 

We did address it, the club went out and signed a LB.

He just never, ever plays

 

Yep, because the “tactic” was for burn to give it to willock. This is why EH masterstroke was make Tonali do Willocks role. So rather than work on a plan, it’s just “we play 433 like this” then just swapping players around. It’s ****ing weird.

 

Which is strange because they had a lot of shots.

 

Murphy off. Move Gordon to right; Isak to the left. Wilson up top. Tonali behind Wilson as AM.

 

Signed a prospect, as if we somehow had a top end Lb to learn from. I’m actually quite angry. There’s too much naivety at Newcastle.