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The Football Show pundits analyse why Newcastle have struggled defensively this season after finishing in the top four last season.
Newcastle were beaten 3-2 by Chelsea on Monday Night Football and have now conceded three or more goals in the Premier League 10 times this season.
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Since the start of November only brenford have lost more Premier League away games the Newcastle so defeats coming at Bournemouth Everton Tottenham Lon Liverpool Arsenal and last night conceding goals is a bit of a problem as well on the road let’s have a look at this TW look at that 32 goals conceded
The most away from home joint with Sheffield United Lon have an away match of course mid week but a real concern and of course they’ve missed the number of Defenders being injured and Nick Pope’s being a huge loss and any chances of European football next season their way form will certainly have to
Improve yeah those are worrying Trends and statistics aren’t they there’s two ways of looking at this isn’t there that first of all Newcastle are going backwards or that they so overachieved last season that now they’re beginning to find their feet and inevit will settle down and they’ll move
Forward once again so is Eddie how given Credit in the bank for last season or is pressure mounting on him I think he certainly should have credit in the bank from last season you know to qualify for the Champions League in the way that they did you know with the joint best
Defense in the league let’s remember as well like it has been quite a drop off in that sense at the back um so first of all I think Eddie how does Serve credit in the bank given that you know yeah they were you know for the Champions
League ahead of schedule um but equally yeah it has been quite a drop off at the same time there are meating factors you know they’ve been without Nick Pope Joe Linton Joe willick Sven botman Harvey Barnes Callum Wilson Alexander isach all for significant portions of this season
The the squad is not quite deep enough yet for them to be able to deal with you know that amount um of absences um and so in some ways it’s not surprising to see how inconsistent they’ve been this season especially when they were having to juggle Champions League football in
The first half of the campaign having said that you know I think Eddie how will be really really Keen to finish in the top half because they do finish in the bottom half than that is quite a big drop off and if the club if the club’s
Owners are to um invest more in this squad then given the caliber of managers who are available this summer I wouldn’t be surprised if they became a little bit tempted um to look at their options in that sense yeah it’ll be interesting I think where they finished this season is
Also quite Cru that we’ve seen them sort of coming close to if not falling foul of PSR rules as well so it does feel like they need to sell a top player potentially this summer or at least in the next couple of windows so they’re
Not going to be able to attct to the biggest price that they could possibly do that if the players and the team aren’t performing as you expect and they’ve only lost sorry only won four of their last 14 League games now they’re sort of mared in or marooned in mid mid
Table I should say and the teams around them in that mid table are actually in better form than them as well so there are met factors but it has definitely been a disappointing step back particularly defensively as Mikey says
23 Comments
Settle down!
Backwards? Nah, they've just returned to their more regular level. Last season was an anomaly, Newcastle overperformed while also enjoying Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea all having poor seasons. Moreover this season they had to deal with European fixtures as well as a sizable injury list. Last season they achieved over the odds, this season they're where you'd expect them to be.
They overperformed last season, and haven't improved their squad, in that Tonali and Barnes, their two big signings, have been out all season. It will take time to be consistently at the top table. The media are shameless.
Eddie Howe's managerial honeymoon is over, as he previously had at his previous clubs. The Saudis should hire someone with better vision and tactical knowledge next time
No, they just overachieved last season
Barking a lot after qualify in ucl last season
Newcastle needs to improve inorder to play in Europe league
Newcastle have lost magic touch
The overachieved last season, the deserved it but factors helped, Lihad a huge injury crisis finishing 5th, Chelsea collapsed as did Spurs thus leaving room for them to have the season the did
Imagine spending 300m and finishing tenth with no European football lol
British passport again if this was ten hag he should be sacked 😂
Sky are like that member of the family that you dread coming round 😂 everything is fine until your having a bad run of luck
Who are these people? They are like two middle class blokes down the pub who you actively avoid talking to because they just bore the pants off you. This grey, charmless echo chamber journalism of talking much saying little is devoid of depth to the point you just want to disengage with the entire game itself. Sky, you can do better
Look at who was playimg the games for us last season and compare it to this season and there is your answer.
Pope, Botman, Willock, Joelinton, Wilson pretty much were available all last season yet have missed massive amounts of this one. We sold Maxi and his replacement Barnes again has been missing
Add in to that the extra games and other teams (Liverpool, Villa, Spurs) getting their act together this was inevitable
So you all know injuries affect a team or because it is. New Castle. Haters of Ten Hag.
No wonder why Newcastle played like Antonio Conte's Tottenham Hotspur
It's noticeable that them and Brighton have struggled juggling European footy with league games. They have suffered with a lot of injuries too to be fair. Plus Liverpool, Spurs etc have improved.
I think they're deliberately underperforming to avoid the Saudi scrutiny. Nobody is talking about their ownership anymore.
They can't invest. They need to sell . They spent to much .
All that money spent…
Not sure they’ve gone backwards Many of there current squad are still from there championship dats
Yes they did with so many injuries plaguing the team, not Newcastle we know from last season
Newcastle have a smaller squad than other teams so just a few injuries can be devastating it didnt help with saint maximin leaving and the medical team showing their real treatment on gordan