Spuds match thread

[toptoon]

Newcastle United: Nick Pope; Kieran Trippier, Sven Botman, Anthony Gordon, Harvey Barnes, Malick Thiaw, Anthony Elanga, Joe Willock, Dan Burn, Bruno Guimar?es (c), Jacob Ramsey

Substitutes: Aaron Ramsdale, Lewis Hall, Sandro Tonali, Yoane Wissa, Will Osula, Jacob Murphy, Nick Woltemade, Alex Murphy, Leo Shahar

Gordon as striker. BDB at left back (Hall and Tonali rested?)

HTL

[Ragatino]

Newcastle United: Nick Pope; Kieran Trippier, Sven Botman, Anthony Gordon, Harvey Barnes, Malick Thiaw, Anthony Elanga, Joe Willock, Dan Burn, Bruno Guimar?es (c), Jacob Ramsey

Substitutes: Aaron Ramsdale, Lewis Hall, Sandro Tonali, Yoane Wissa, Will Osula, Jacob Murphy, Nick Woltemade, Alex Murphy, Leo Shahar

Gordon as striker. BDB at left back (Hall and Tonali rested?)

HTL

[Ragatino]

Static back 4.

The tactics are gonna be sit deep and hit the depleted Spurs team on the counter attack.

Bags of Pace up top. Willock and Ramsey legs in the middle field.

I don't care how the team wins, how dirty it is just get the 3 points against a completely garbage Spurs team.

[toptoon]

My main concern would be our lack of pace at RB and LB. Theyre gonna need help from the lads in front of them.

[Zippity]

Mind, what an admission that is that our main summer transfer business was garbage.

Tbf, Gordon scored last time out so who knows.

[Zippity]

As one of our WhatsApp group has pointed out, as long as they have a sloth and a snail as their wingers, we'll be fine.

[toonphil]

I'd have played Shahar, Hall, Woltemade instead of Gordon, Burn, Trippier. Pace up front but no strikers. No pace at full back. I'll shut up as long as we win

[Zippity]

Pace up front could work-they've got big injury problems, too.


if we can get an early goal, their crowd will get on their backs.

[Zippity]

Decent start.

[Zippity]

Dominating this but need to score while we're on top because we know how this goes if we don't/

Final ball is absolute shite, though.

[toonphil]

A bit less predictable in our play so far...less side passing. We're winning a lot of corners but yes no end product.

[toonviking]

Dominating and getting corners as always, up until the 30 min mark.

Another 30 min of play, and we have collapsed.

[toonphil]

Dominating is a bit pointless if you can't create proper chances.

[Zippity]

That's a fantastic goal if he wasn't offside...,

[toonviking]

Impossible to see if its offiside or not.