Steve Bruce has admitted that his Newcastle team will live or die on what his strikers are able to deliver. The Magpies secured their Premier League status under Rafael Benitez last season by scoring just 42 goals in their 38 games, and that is a statistic upon which Bruce knows they must improve this time around if they are to avoid another battle for survival. Twenty-three of those goals came from Ayoze Perez and Salomon Rondon, who have since departed, and the pressure will be on new record signing Joelinton and fellow summer arrivals Allan Saint-Maximin and Andy Carroll, as well as January acquisition Miguel Almiron, to provide the required firepower. Bruce said: “I’ve always said...
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