Unai Emery

[Brazilian Villain]

If Unai goes to Real Madrid, will we be able to get Keith Andrews before Barca are in for him?

[eamonn]

Luckily, he was crap at languages in Artane Boys National School, so Spanish clubs are unlikely to plump for him.

[kippaxvilla2]

I would go for the nutter from Atletico.

[Baldy]

Did Unai drop a bollock yesterday? Directly after the sending off, he had 15 minutes to re-organise our shape and strategy for the second half.

He has seen teams play against us who were down to ten men and yet won/drew the match. Get all your players behind the ball and counter attack with your fastest players.

Defensively, we needed Mings leadership skills. Get him on. Move Lindelof into midfield to strengthen it up. Luiz was never going to last 90 minutes. Take Tammy off and keep Bailey on for his speed.

A foursome of Bailey, Rogers, Barkley and Sancho should have given us enough threat on the counter.

Far from it for me to question Unai but our second half performance was pathetic.

[Rigadon]

It’s all about the structure. Every movement is planned. The first goal against and the massive turning point comes from Bailey doing something we’ve barely done all season: hit a badly executed cross field ball when we were heavily invested in their half.  What usually happens is, if there’s no clear forward pass in those positions, we recycle the ball to reduce the risk of what eventually happened (long ball to the winger over what was left of our team).  Bizot made a huge error too. 

Anyway, when the structure is all important, going down to 10 men is a killer and without key players like Miginn and Kamara in there, it’s made worse. 

[brontebilly]

Did Unai drop a bollock yesterday? Directly after the sending off, he had 15 minutes to re-organise our shape and strategy for the second half.

He has seen teams play against us who were down to ten men and yet won/drew the match. Get all your players behind the ball and counter attack with your fastest players.

Defensively, we needed Mings leadership skills. Get him on. Move Lindelof into midfield to strengthen it up. Luiz was never going to last 90 minutes. Take Tammy off and keep Bailey on for his speed.

A foursome of Bailey, Rogers, Barkley and Sancho should have given us enough threat on the counter.

Far from it for me to question Unai but our second half performance was pathetic.

Yep, Emery had a nightmare. Newcastle's best players are in their flanks yet we surrendered defending ours. Ridiculous situation of Barkley and Luiz with huge distances to cover in midfield with Rogers losing every ball up front.

Bailey should have been kept on the right, Rogers left. Barkley gone. 441.

[AV82EC]

He decided to go 4-3-2 for the second half and hope to keep pressure on their imv poor back 4. It didn’t work and shit happens.

The last time I saw a Manager try it and it work was Deano in the 2-1 at Rotherham. Maybe if he’d dropped Roger’s back to the 3 with Dougie and Onana and bought Watkins on with Tammy it might have worked but it’s all ifs bits and maybes. It didn’t work and they eventually got their breakthroughs.

I thought we created much the better opportunities in the first half as well.

[eamonn]

I don't think either side created anything worthwhile at all in the first half.

[Brazilian Villain]

He was at the Derbi Valenciano earlier. Make of that what you will.

[Chap]

He was at the Derbi Valenciano earlier. Make of that what you will.

Visiting his brother?

[Chap]

He was at the Derbi Valenciano earlier. Make of that what you will.

Visiting his brother?

[ChicagoLion]

He needs to rethink our midfield set up, the Onana Luiz pivot looks vulnerable in defence and lacks cutting edge in attack.

He also needs to not start Bailey.

[AV82EC]

Onana and Luiz against a narrow 3 man midfield like yesterday was folly and despite starting the second half with Luiz dropping between Konsa and Mings we just couldn’t get going. The impetus changed when Buendia and Bailey were hooked and Rogers went left and Sancho was right and we were just playing the ball to Maatsen and Cash and spreading their back line. The fact we didnt create more from getting behind them on numerous occasions in the last 15 minutes was disappointing but we did at least start to create and got a deserved equaliser for our efforts.

[Villan82]

Onana and Luiz against a narrow 3 man midfield like yesterday was folly and despite starting the second half with Luiz dropping between Konsa and Mings we just couldn’t get going. The impetus changed when Buendia and Bailey were hooked and Rogers went left and Sancho was right and we were just playing the ball to Maatsen and Cash and spreading their back line. The fact we didnt create more from getting behind them on numerous occasions in the last 15 minutes was disappointing but we did at least start to create and got a deserved equaliser for our efforts.

I'm not picking on you here but posts like this really frustrate me.

It's like we forgot to inform you that three of our best central midfielders are out long-term injured.

This is probably his worst luck with injuries in three years and he hasn't really got options.

[Ads]

That might be true but we are better than Leeds all over the park by many levels of magnitude. Our better players, Sancho, Barkely, Torres, were on the bench. If you want to say that we have 3 players out and a hand behind our back, ok, it absolutely is a factor, but.kets not double that problem.