But Cybers a doom twat don’t ya know!Someone has just posted on Twitter - that was the 10th goal we've conceded after the 86th minute in the last 15 games
Not sure that is correct. Newcastle, Stoke, Man City, West Ham, Sevilla, Sheff U, Arsenal, Burnley - 8 by my count (could be wrong). Still a lot though, hadn't realised.Someone has just posted on Twitter - that was the 10th goal we've conceded after the 86th minute in the last 15 games
I agree with this, there's no synergy between the front three currently. All three have quality but aren't quite working as an attacking trio, yet.The front three had good games individually, although wasteful with their chances, but didn’t play well together. It was three individuals doing their own thing and this cost us. Our goal threat was almost entirely down to individual efforts. We should have won that game comfortably.
Traore delivered 2 brilliant crosses but no one in the box. You cannot keep giving him just 25 minutes to shine.We played OK for the most part. I thought Semedo showed positive signs today, Pod and Neto huffed and puffed but never seriously looked like punishing Newcastle.
Traore looked poor again when he came on (confidence low after losing his place?)
Only the bottom four have scored less than us, not sure how that's going to change unless Raul starts scoring two or three a game. I don't see loads of goals in Neto or Pod (the former with time maybe) and no-one else in the team really contributes much in an attacking sense (Semedo can maybe grow into this). We need something more from the centre mids for sure.
It's a point. Our points haul is still good, but that's a crutch as we're not playing convincingly, and that concerns me because sooner or later it'll catch up with us.
I agree with this apart from the Donck bit. He doesn’t need to be particularly creative if Podence and Neto play narrow, the WBs play high and wide and Neves pushes up a little work one of the CBs stepping in. Unfortunately Podence/Neto are often wide, with the WB behind them leaving only 2 people in the box to aim for with Donck often being one of them.There was quite a bit wrong with that today - Newcastle are shite, but Darlow barely made a save.
Saiss is an excellent player, but an attacking wing back he is not - almost everything came backwards meaning we lost any attacking impetus down that side.
Donk is an excellent defensive hard working midfielder but when we play a park the bus style team, he’s the wrong player - he has no creativity
We can’t just rely on the front three and semedo to do something against a team with nine across the back, it’s ridiculous.
even if Ait Noiri wasn’t completely fit, he had to come on tonight (or put semedo LWB and Traore on the right).
as for Rui’s wall - I love Rui, and he’s a fantastic keeper, but that was so obviously badly set up, I assume he was worried mason would allow the kick whilst he was still setting up the wall, so did half a job.
we are a good team - but we’re making it hard for ourselves.