Newcastle United v Aston Villa Match Thread

[citizenDJ]

What on Earth was Vlaar doing there to let them in? Good grief!

[ez]

A let off there

[Goldie.7]

First half = Garbage

[JUAN PABLO]

HT    just edged off , midfield on top

let off at end

disapointed we didnt score

Newcastle cant be any worse  second half esp with Lamberts awful HT talks

[brontebilly]

Agreed, Delph has been very quiet. We look comfortable to be fair. First goal will be crucial. Desperately could do with a better player than Kea in midfield. Can't understand what Baker is doing in the team but Vlaar is the one making mistakes thus far.

Need more from our full backs going forward and Westwood to keep up his form.

[l_mckay]

This game is for the taking second half,if we can get the first goal the crowd will turn own them

[pooligan]

Doing our best to concede in injury time again !!!

[Deano's Mullet]

Westwood  playing pretty well. We've frustrated them quite well but Gabby looks our only threat up front, Benteke won a few headers but a bit off the pace, Weimann some good touches. Should have been 1-0 down just on half time but they didn't take their chance.

[Mister E]

Haven't scored at home for how many games? - that miss demonstrates why.

We have played reasonably well: the closing down, the wing play, better from Westwood. We just need to be more ruthless in front of goal.

[Irish villain]

On days like today Westwood looks a top six player. Hasn't happened often enough this year.Gabby look on his game and with some big matches coming up could be about to go on one of his little runs of form.

Need to keep pressing second half.

[UK Redsox]

Two great crosses early on from KEA that should have been capitalised on

[Mazrim]

Vlaar falls over, Baker, seeing the danger, gets sucked to the ball leaving us in greater danger. Dear me. Still, they've defended well on the whole. We really could do with putting these lot away. You can hear a pin drop in there. If we score, the fans will get on top of their players. IF we can score.

[E I Adio]

First half = Garbage

I should switch over to the Villa v Newcastle game if I were you.

[Chipsticks]

Good, comfortable half for us so far. We've kept both their crowd and attack very quiet, and they've literally been feeding off scraps and the odd defensive error. Oddly, we've had more possession than expected and passed the ball around quite well, on the contrary to Lambert's media comments.

- Westwood has been very effective in the deep-lying play-maker role, and has rarely put a pass wrong, also nice to see him looking to go forward for a change, rather than every pass being sideways or backwards.
- Bacuna actually looks like a right back and has been solid, amazingly.
- You can see how badly Newcastle are missing the flair and creativity of Cabaye and Ben Arfa
- Biggest downside is that we should be ahead, hopefully we won't rue our misses
- Delph still giving the ball away a fair few times, surprisingly KEA's outshined him a bit.

[Olneythelonely]

Playing decently. But I'd imagine that was our "good half".