Newcastle 3-2 Saints - Match Thread

[Suhari]

Just now, Lord Duckhunter said:

Why are we still playing a centre half at full back against 10. Stick Redmond back there and getDjenepo  on. 

Or this!

[DT]

Their bloody keeper having a great game

[washsaint]

This is painful to watch against 10 men. Compare how Utd played against 10 men and then look at the slow, ponderous sideways backwards passing.  Embarrassing

[Chez]

Great play Bertrand

[obelisk]

We're not going to score are we?

[nta786]

Our first goal came from good off the ball movement from Minamino to find space.

Everyone looks so static 

[trousers]

3 minutes ago, Suhari said:

Surely Djenepo for Redmond soon?

Is this playing surface condusive to Djenepo at the moment? I'd be tempted to shove Vestergaard up front and lump the ball up to him

Edited 6 February, 2021 by trousers

[OttawaSaint]

You just know that this waterlogged pitch is going to fuck us over. the ball will stop dead and put them clean in. 

[trousers]

Just now, obelisk said:

We're not going to score are we?

Unlikely

[Viking Saint]

Just now, obelisk said:

We're not going to score are we?

Would love to be proved wrong but I agree with you..... 

[nta786]

Bednarek in the book- Almiron did well there

[Saint_clark]

One of their defenders did that exact same thing to Ings earlier in the game and it wasn't given at all.

[obelisk]

Saints far too slow. Time is drifting and now Newcastle have a dangerous free kick.

[stknowle]

They look relatively comfortable. Why are we do clueless when teams sit back?

[Chez]

1 minute ago, washsaint said:

This is painful to watch against 10 men. Compare how Utd played against 10 men and then look at the slow, ponderous sideways backwards passing.  Embarrassing

we are trying. This pitch is hard work to play a passing game.

 

1 minute ago, trousers said:

Is this playing surface condusive to Djenepo at the moment? I'd be tempted to shove Vestergaard up front and lump the ball up to him

Not the worse idea. 80minutes perhaps?

[Saint_clark]

Why is the ref stopping the game there? It's not a head injury!

[Lord Duckhunter]

Just now, stknowle said:

They look relatively comfortable. Why are we do clueless when teams sit back?

Because we don’t move the ball quick enough or get wide 

[nta786]

Even if Newcastle went down to 9 we won’t score

[DT]

Mcarthy’s positioning there was terrible. Big gap top right. Lucky it was a gash free kick

[BotleySaint]

Bednarek having a bad time at the moment. Mike Dean would have sent him off.

[Chez]

1 minute ago, nta786 said:

Bednarek in the book- Almiron did well there

lucky not to get a red in my book. He'd beaten him and was last man. It was cynical professional foul.

[Behind Enemy Lines]

We never score against 10 men...

[LGTL]

They’ve made all their subs, will be down to 9 if he’s fucked..

[Saint_clark]

Newcastle down to 9.

[OttawaSaint]

1 minute ago, nta786 said:

Even if Newcastle went down to 9 we won’t score

We might get to test that theory.

[Chez]

1 minute ago, Saint_clark said:

Why is the ref stopping the game there? It's not a head injury!

no idea. Maybe he thought it was proper bad one.

[DT]

Really need a point here. Such a big 15 minutes. Ralph inert to change. This is where he isn’t great. Adjusting. 

[The Cat]

It's harder to play against 9 men than 10. 

[saint michael]

We take far too many touches before knocking it sideways and backwards.
 

When we move it quickly and forwards looks much better. the back 4 should move it fast and wide as vestegaard was doing before injury 

[obelisk]

Can Saints score against 9 men? Even just one?

We'll find out.

[sydney_saint]

Time to take off one of bednarek or Stephens. Get djenepo on. And it is a must to get at least a point

[Lord Duckhunter]

He’s got to get some defenders off and Djenepo on 

[GDog07]

Don’t reckon we’ll score against 9 either the way our last few weeks have gone.

Nah, probably will, and get it chalked off for a dodgy VAR call.

[OttawaSaint]

We need to get something out of this. Newcastle, 9 men. Our confidence is already low..

[sydney_saint]

It's almost like playing against 8. Pretty sure S-M has run out of gas

[stknowle]

3 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Because we don’t move the ball quick enough or get wide 

Ok, I’ll rephrase the question - why don’t we move the ball quicker snd get it wide in order to break teams that sit back down? 

[Saint_clark]

Just now, sydney_saint said:

It's almost like playing against 8. Pretty sure S-M has run out of gas

He went off for Dummett.

[Saint Pete]

Right, Jannik up top and play more direct now. Short passing tricky on this surface even versus 9.

[Teddeer]

Why do we still have 4 defenders on against 9 men ffs?

[Saint Fan CaM]

If we dont get at least a draw out of this I will start having serious doubts about our ability not to be sucked towards a relegation battle. And that will be the end if the road for Ralph I would imagine. Redmond is an absolute passenger and there are another 5 or 6 not far behind him.

[Saint_clark]

Nlundulu will get a goal for his birthday.

[Toussaint]

Noodles to the rescue!!

[Chez]

get a CB up front to give us some height for crosses

[DT]

Should surely have been Djenepo not Nlundlu

[OttawaSaint]

Stephens for DAN!

[LGTL]

Move the ball quicker FFS

[obelisk]

Saints remain clueless in the final 3rd.

[CB Fry]

We'd better score. We go down to nine men mid week and that's an acceptable excuse to lose nine fucking nil.

We should be able to score one frigging goal against nine man Newcastle.

[trousers]

Just now, DT said:

Should surely have been Djenepo not Nlundlu

Pitch not conducive to a player who likes to run with the ball and he's also injury prone (conditions won't help with that either)

[Noodles34]

Would be funny as fuck

 if they scored. 

Edited 6 February, 2021 by Noodles34