Newcastle United v Aston Villa Match Thread

[supertom]

Get Delph off who is a waste of space again and bring on Sanchez to strengthen the midfield. Gil on for Gabby is the other obvious change though I do worry he'll get bullied again.

I actually thought he had his best game in a while.
Still not brilliant, but I didn't see too much from TC. Westwood warmed up and started dictating things before the goal.
Sanchez would be a liability today. The ball is pinging round everywhere and he'd be a red waiting to happen.

[itbrvilla]

No guts, no passion, no quality, no fight ...

not sure that's the case today: an individual error at the back, is all.

No quality is true. So poor with final ball and waste full with free kicks and corners.

[Dan England]

It's a team with relegation written all over it. We were by far the better team that half, had got the NUFC fans getting on the backs of the players and then concede a very sloppy goal. In a similar way last week we conceded goals from poor decisions and defensive mistakes. You can't make the mistakes and miss the opportunities we have and stay up.

We need a HUGE 2nd half.

[Morten]

We started all right, but what a soft goal to concede. After that we looked disorganized in both defence and attack. It could easily have been 2-0 from the corner, no one was marking their striker.

One thing that has continued from Lambert is that we put everyone in the box, when the opponent have a corner. So when we clear it, they can launch it back into the box without pressure. Why not put Agbonlahor between our box and the middle line to chase the clearances ? That said, he has been ineffective as always. We need to bring on Gil in the second half. They will probably sit back more now, so we need more creativity to open their defence.

Newcastle are not very good and yet they score an easy goal. Hope really is fading if we cannot match this Newcastle side today...

[citizenDJ]

Just saw Berahino's goal for West Brom. Very good.

*sigh*

[JUAN PABLO]

im expecting a 2-1 villa win and get us back on track

its going to be one of those matches

[Tuscans]

Looking at the league table right now and the gap is getting bigger and bigger. If Sunderland pinch a win today with Burnley it's going to mission impossible.

[supertom]

I'd be tempted to switch Sinclair to the right for a bit. He's not getting much joy from Janmaat. They look weaker on their left side and Hutton is more comfortable bombing forward to double up than Lowton, who looks uncomfortable on his left side.

[ozzjim]

He had half the Hawthorns to hit it in.

[David_Nab]

If we can salvage a draw that would be something to build on.But you saw after the goal went in we looked ragged the team is shot , your talking a year or more of being beat constantly even a new manager isn't having an effect.

[cdbearsfan]

come on come on come on

Is that orange or green?

Looks white and gold to me.

[Jimbo]

Some of us need to sort our heads out. The only option we have is to fight, or we may as well forfeit all our remaining games, go home and trash our bedrooms like surly teenagers. Fight, for fuck's sake, and stick together. And then we can do all the pissing and moaning we like when our fate is sealed. But only then. We've got a war to win and if we're gonna go down, we'd better go down fighting.

The players, especially.

Exactly.  Tell that to the players.  There's sod all we can do about it.

All we can do is our part. Save up the self-flagellation, negativity and told-you-sos for when it's beyond doubt. Let's try a bit of positive thinking.

[eric woolban woolban]

If we don't get anything today we're doomed. 

I can't see us scoring so believe this is it.  Final nail in the coffin and we're not even in March.

[itbrvilla]

Looking at the league table right now and the gap is getting bigger and bigger. If Sunderland pinch a win today with Burnley it's going to mission impossible.

Frightening!

[brontebilly]

I think Cleverley has been perfectly fine, quite positive, trying to get on with it. Delph has been really bad, Westwood has had good moments, Benteke is the best player for either side and Gabby is the worst.

fine but offers nothing

whats the point with westwood playing too

Think Westwood has played well so far. Cleverley has been ok but he doesnt take any risks or provide quality really.

Not sure how Delph has been really bad, I must be seeing a different game.

Worried about Lowton, think there is a good chance he will get a second yellow.