Willock cant play shirley,put Wissa up front and get a solid fluid midfield.A clean sheet would be more than weclome but cant see it sadly.

FWIW I'm not a Willock fan but Miley has looked rather jaded in midfield when he's played there and I'm not sure why Steur was overlooked on Monday night.

Miley does 60 as fullback, worn out.. shunted into midfield v fresh legs.

So unfair.

Joelinton, Nico and Miley, or Steur if Miley is right back.


Oddly I thought wissa has had some decent moments as a 10,but possibly would be better
as a false 9, so no one person in front of him through middle, but others making runs in front of him

Going back to yesterdays press conference; something that Jaissle said was; you can have the best tactics in the world but if players make individual errors the tactics will be irrelevant. No excuse for Hornicek error for their penalty; Joelinton made an error late on in the game which lead to the goal; Pardo's dummy instead of smashing the ball into the net and Willocks miss rings true to what he said. As NP said this morning the bloke has only been in the job for 2 months. FWIW Jaissle has to be judged on results and apart from 2 monday night horror shows it hasn't been a bad start to the season. A clean sheet would be fantastic tomorrow for confidence and as for the starting line up he plays his cards that close to his chest I wouldn't have a clue

wunderbar

GL with your comp entry.

Well once you said you would win I decided it was a waste of my valuable time in entering.

*completely

Good luck in the comp, its a bit of frun for the day.

Sadly I can see the team tonight to not be the team or tactics that most of us would use, I can see something like:

Hornicek
Dedic
Thiaw
Botman
Hall

Gonzalez
Joelinton

Wissa

Barnes
Pardon
Toure/Murphy

Joelinton makes his first start of the season as Newcastle United take on Aston Villa at St. James' Park in the Premier League (kick-off 5.30pm BST).

Newcastle United: Lukáš Horníček, Lewis Hall, Sven Botman, Nico González, Joelinton (c), Yoane Wissa, Harvey Barnes 12 Malick Thiaw 20 Matias Fernandez-Pardo 28 Joe Willock 67 Lewis Miley

Substitutes: 1 Nick Pope 5 Fabian Schär 8 Aladji Bamba 10 Will Osula 14 Sean Steur 17 Bazoumana Touré 23 Jacob Murphy 33 Dan Burn 37 Amar Dedić

Lewis Hall playing three positions at once in that first half, centre back, centre back and left half.

Bish, Botman got the ball first, then the man as did Joelinton, isnt that how the game should be played? Hard?
If you get the man first then fair enough its a bad tackle.

Massive turnaround needed in the second half.

Can see Dedic coming on early.

4-2-1-3, your having a laugh!

Did he play Burn up front at the end?! He needs sacking tonight. 70m striker played well for Juve and this clown plays a 7 foot defender up front.

It's not good is it ?

I've seen a replay and i'm surprised he didn't see red ( ref wasn't even sent to the screen).

At the risk of repeating myself, this system doesn't work and this fella doesn't seem to see it.

Apart from the first 20 minutes or so I found it difficult to watch.

I don't think we had a shot on target other than Botman in the 2nd half.

Wissa was wasteful late on when he should have passed to Barnes or crossed to I think it was Toure.

6 pointa next week.... can't wait.

Horrible football is me being  polite.

We were OK at getting stuck in and working hard

The double booking knocked our ability to tackle, and I don't know how Miley ended up inside Thiaw for the goal. Poor decision not to challenge manzambi for ball, and that's it.

I quite enjoyed the game, despite us making so many bad decisions.

Worryingly Pardo looked dejected 2nd half.

There was lots of signals between him and Nico, first half,... Dunno why.. Summit not right.

Wan bisaka had a good game unti going off injured,.. Our left back was good too!

Frustrating the errors, but I've kind of accepted where we are, so today was a step forward.

We need much improvement, but surely getting
Steur in there will improve creativity, and Nico and Hall are good players.

When Pardo went off, Miley got forward more
and produced some good stuff, of course that
leaves us more open, but that's part of the game.

Not had a home clean sheet since January which is a record 16 games; does that not tell you that something needs changing at the back

the Owners btw are clueless. They are one dumpster fire after another. Incredible there is not some sort of uprising over there if the natives saw how much money they are wasting on these "investments"

Clueless

Newcastle   0   Aston Villa  1

NUFC.COM

Newcastle may have unveiled a new version of The Blaydon Races before kick-off on Saturday, but there weren't many smiling faces at St.James' Park by the full time whistle.

Matthias Jaissle lost on home soil for the first time thanks to a display from his side that bordered on the inept and was greeted by a chorus of boos at half and full time.

The only goal of the game came from Johan Manzambi, who rejected a move to Tyneside in the summer in favour of Villa and was left unattended in the United box to nod home a Joao Gomes cross on 36 minutes.

United's most dangerous moment came early in the second half from the boot of Sven Botman, but unlike Monday's effort, he failed to find a way past 'keeper Zion Suzuki.

Making one change to the side that started at Coventry, Joelinton returned to captain the side from central midfield, Jacob Murphy making way for Matias Fernandez-Pardo on the right and Yoane Wissa fielded at centre forward.

The ineffectiveness of that formation saw replacements warming up after half time; Bazoumana Toure and Will Osula both introduced barely ten minutes after the restart.

The tempo and frequency of United's attacks increased, but the quality of crossing remained uniformly poor with nothing remotely troubling Suzuki as the minutes ticked away and our efforts became desperate.

A team lacking any poise or coherence ended up with Dan Burn leading the attack once again, trying in vain to trouble a Villa side who needed to be no more than workmanlike to take all three points and could have added to their tally.

Jaissle may have spoken about his players needing to show a reaction in this game, but like his selections and tactics, the gap between aspiration and reality at present is visible. The reaction was insipid, the effort misplaced, the spark missing.

To our eyes there is a credibility issue with this coach and his players; a paying audience largely unconvinced by what they've seen and heard thus far this season.

Joelinton lucky Botman confused var, lol.


I'm still not convinced we are that bad.

Deffo poor, but danger is talking us into worse than we are.

Saw the wissa miss again, and osula running offside was a bugga, barnes is too close for a pass, and Toure was probably the ball, but
a lot going on, and plan c being best option for a pass, it's no wonder he shot and missed.

A lot depends on how good villa are... If villa are good then we have poor season

If villa are poor then we need to find somebody else with Coventry and hull or
we could well join them.

As I've said since they have hired him he will and should be judged on results; as it stands at the moment including cup games; 4 wins out of 9; not spectacular but not the worst we have had by far; worrying all the same that they only had 1 shot on target yesterday and Villa carved through them especially in the 1st half with such ease. He needs to turn things round quickly or it could be a very long season