Metalist Kharkiv v Newcastle United (leg 2)- Official Build Up / Matchday Thread

Now this is more like it, somebody who understands where I'm coming from and trying to offer a workable solution!

 

That'll be a waste Gandalf as I'll be in Peru tomorrow. Best you hire out all the advertising opportunities over there instead!

 

Damn it, you've foiled me this time, but you won't foil me again!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!



When did I become evil? I think it's snowballed too far for me to tracks it's root now...

 

Hatem Ben Arfa will miss Newcastle's second leg last 32 Europa League tie at Metalist Kharkiv despite having recovered from his hamstring injury.

The 25-year-old France midfielder has returned to training having been sidelined since December.
Full-back Davide Santon has been rested but January signings Massadio Haidara, Mapou Yanga Mbiwa and Moussa Sissoko are all included.

Metalist fact
Before meeting Newcastle, Metalist's only clash with English opposition came in the 2007-08 Europa League against Everton

The first match at St James' Park ended in a 0-0 draw. Newcastle created several chances to score, with striker Papiss Cisse missing good opportunities and having two goals disallowed for offside.

Fellow forward Shola Ameobi is confident his team-mate will find the net on Thursday.
"Papiss is pretty easy-going and he knows he is going to get chances playing in this team," said the 31-year-old.
"With the players he has got behind him feeding, he is going to get chances to score goals, and hopefully he can do that on Thursday. "When he gets on a roll, there's no stopping him, so hopefully he can keep getting into those positions and he can start banging them away."

Meanwhile, Metalist Kharkiv manager Myron Markevych believes the Magpies should be in the top 10 of the Premier League. "As I said after the first game, Newcastle are a very good team and they shouldn't be in the position they are in," he said of the 16th-placed team. "They should be in the top 10 minimum."

 

Squad: Shola Ameobi, Vurnon Anita, Gael Bigirimana, Yohan Cabaye, Papiss Cisse, Fabricio Coloccini, Rob Elliot, Dan Gosling, Jonas Gutierrez, Massadio Haidara, Tim Krul, Sylvain Marveaux, Gabriel Obertan, James Perch, Danny Simpson, Moussa Sissoko, Steven Taylor, Cheick Tiote, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa.

The glaring admission is Davide Santon who gets a well-deserved rest after appearing in every Premier League game this season. That should see Massadio Haidara make his senior debut.

Hatem Ben Arfa, Dan Gosling, Ryan Taylor and Haris Vuckic remain unavailable, while Sammy Ameobi also stayed at home. Mathieu Debuchy and Yoan Gouffran are both ineligible to appear for United in this competition.

 

No cheap last minute flights to the game from Reading International Airport Obi?

 

The tickets are cheap, buy it's going to cost me an absolute fortune to build Reading International Airport, buy a plane and pay for a pilot! Still, it'll be worth it.

 

That's the spirit, it's only money anyway.

 

Any decent streams about?

 

Posted on the first post by Albert

Streams
http://www.firstrow1.eu/
http://www.viplivesports.eu/sports/football.html

 

UK TV: Live on ESPN - programme starts at 5.30pm and Steve Harper will be a pundit, Rob Elliot and Tim Krul having made the journey.

(NB: anyone trying to watch that channel via the SkyGo service will find out that due to contractual restrictions it's not available).

UK Radio: none

NE Radio: Live commentary on BBC Newcastle.

 

Please don't play Shola but say Pardew does, for Christ sake please show some talent Shola. You've been wretched this season, as every other season before this one, you owe us a performance man!

 

from nufc.co.uk interview with Shola
http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20130221/shola-offers-ukrainian-education_2281670_3083835


Frightening

""I've been to this country before and been in plenty of European games in my time.
You go about your business normally and hopefully the younger players look at you and do what you do."

 

Shola starts
Tiote out and Anita in

 

Looking like Cisse on the wing!

 

Krul, Coloccini, Simpson, Anita, Yanga-Mbiwa, Haidara, Cabaye, Sissoko, Marveaux, Cisse, Shola Ameobi.

 

Should be good enough to win it.

 

We need our midfield to be firing on all cylinders as Shola is shockingly poor and lazy, Marveaux is a luxury player and Cisse is not a winger!

 

Cometh the moment, cometh the men.

I'm sure they'll do us proud.

 

I blooming hope so! Think Cisse is going to grab a brace