Newcastle United vs Sheffield United

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EPL Week 31 - Sunday 21st June 2020 - St James Park​

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Officials:

Referee: David Coote
Assistant Referee: Gary Beswick
Assistant Referee: Nick Hopton
Fourth Official: Darren England
Video Assistant Referee: Peter Bankes
Additional Video Assistant Referee: Harry Lennard

Coverage:

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Live TV Coverage:

 

[true99blade]

Can't blame JOC for this.

Robinson has been alright and has been making runs, it's the fact that every player but Bash and Lundstram have got 50p feet and no imagination.

Robinson was shambolic today.

 

[BettingBlade]

Please enlighten me.

Gladly,

You’ve picked out 2 players, purely on how much their transfer fee was.

Berge has not played in his natural position once and McBurnie has not had anything like the service required to be a goal scoring threat. They are in no way at fault for this diabolical performance.

I notice you haven’t picked Norwood up on being at fault for 2 goals and generally been absolute shite. Our defence other than Basham has been utterly fucking useless.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Forget European football, mid- table finish now

Probably, maybe lower end of mid.

 

[JPSharpy93]

The pace of Almiron and Saint Maximin combined with our own silly mistakes has destroyed us. They don’t deserve to have won that 3-0 but we deserve to have lost it 3-0.

 

[Revolution]

It’s hard to separate Stevens, McBurnie and Norwood as the worst player on the pitch.

all 3 desperately poor.

only Basham has kept up his pre lockdown standards

 

[metalblade]

In both games since the break Egan has been fucking useless but so has most of the team WTF has happened to us?

 

[bromtom]

Robinson was shambolic today.

To be honest I zoned out after the first went in so he could've been appalling today overall but hardly the loose thread that unravelled everything. Even if we had Prime JOC today with the rest of the team playing like they'd drank a gallon of vodka before the game we'd have been no better.

 

[DeanLearner'sCat]

If Enda Stevens has ever played worse than that in his professional career I'd be very surprised.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

There's a context to this, and this is me trying to be kind:

1. The loss of best laid plans and all that, just prior to Villa. A usually settled side trying to regroup.
2. The red card, sent things to shit.

Those factors go some way towards explaining the performance but don't fully account for the level quality on show there. Individual errors and sloppiness all over the place. The usually ever reliable, just were not.

Perfect timing to be going to Old Trafford.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Already got Man Utd mates saying our ‘purple patch’ is over and how they’ll put 6 past us. Come on blades show some fight

They couldn't put six past anyone, seriously.

 

[BettingBlade]

They couldn't put six past anyone, seriously.

Didn’t think Newcastle could manage 3 against anyone

 

[Bladesman98]

They couldn't put six past anyone, seriously.

Well if we play anything like today I wouldn’t be shocked, even if I don’t rate them that much

 

[Seanshoreham]

What concerns me is that we were thrashed by a poor side

 

[originaltrueblade]

Poor performance all over the pitch

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Thank God we're already safe. We've been the worst team in the league so far since the football resumed.

 

[AWetFlannel]

Yeah. Players and formations are meaningless...

The same players and formation have done us great this season, duh.

 

[Seth Rollins]

Gladly,

You’ve picked out 2 players, purely on how much their transfer fee was.

Berge has not played in his natural position once and McBurnie has not had anything like the service required to be a goal scoring threat. They are in no way at fault for this diabolical performance.

I notice you haven’t picked Norwood up on being at fault for 2 goals and generally been absolute shite. Our defence other than Basham has been utterly fucking useless.

Yes your right. Norwood was crap as well.

 

[Alan Duffy]

Honestly can’t understand as soon as we had Egan sent off, jags, moose & Lunny on, change the spine, we were shite all over the pitch, gifted a very poor team a 3-0 win, I think our squad is seriously unfit/injured to not swap those players in straight away, we are allowed 5 changes so could have done that and still had two changes allowed
Need to sort out our shit quickly Wednesday is coming round fast, champions league to far now but still FA cup and Europe still a realistic chance but my god we need to address our passing!

 

[Russ]

 

[BettingBlade]

We actually looked quite good for the first 10-15 minutes as well, but the passing was just a bit loose, but it stayed loose all over the pitch in really dangerous areas.

Once Newcastle realised we were passing it like a pub team, we didn’t stand a chance really.

 

[Greg.]

They couldn't put six past anyone, seriously.

Very easily they could on Wednesday I fear
They put 4 past Newcastle who we barely managed a shot on target against!

 

[ghandi]

What concerns me is that we were thrashed by a poor side

Yeah but remember Watford beat Liverpool 3-0.

 

[Espania blade]

It's the pace that undid us, all over the pitch we were left wanting, we really look lightweight, it does worry me for next season.

 

[HVR]

We’ve always had a tendency to pass it about in midfield with no urgency. I wonder if the lack of an impatient crowd is somehow not triggering our players to get on with it. But if you have 15 passes around the back, and then your 16th pass is to the opposition’s striker, you’ve no chance.

 

[BettingBlade]

Anyone who bought a ticket should get a refund for that performance....

 

[mcbladeface]

They couldn't put six past anyone, seriously.

The most famous of last words

 

[HammerInPeace]

Wtf? Just seen the result..
Thing is, you're probably learning more from games like this, than 1-0 wins.

 

[bromtom]

The most famous of last words

They'll score 6 even if we only play half as crap as we did today. We absolutely honked.

 

[Gimli]

Beers on the bus time

Think Norwood and Stevens must have had their beers on the bus on the way up to Newcastle

 

[Kev Gee]

A huge wake up call for the players and staff.

Some players have let the media hype goto their heads.

You've achieved nothing yet.

I reckon there will be a big reaction against Man Utd.

Back to basics.

If not then we will get battered.