MATCH REPORT – PLAYER RATINGS – REACTION – VIDEO By half-time of yesterday’s match, it’s fair to say I was not impressed. My frustration boiled down to a huge disparity between what the coach and players tell everyone we’re trying to do and what we’d actually done.  Where was the pressing of our opponents? Where was the quick-tempo football? Why weren’t we playing through the lines? What kind of an attempt to build play from the back repeatedly ends with a hopeless long ball? Why Mustafi? Why? Why? Why? We were unimaginative, laboured, meek and dopey in equal measure. Thankfully, despite trying to copy Cardiff’s tactics, Newcastle – a very limited team –...
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