Newcastle 1 Brentford 0 : Mission accomplished for Newcastle United - Could be a canny week this.
Mission accomplished for Newcastle United – Could be a canny week thisIt’s felt like a bit of a whirlwind lately. Tickets for this, schemes for that, articles about the poorly orchestrated distribution of it all, internationals, the draw for the Champions League, drawing Man City in the league cup, Saudi Arabia at St James’ Park and now this. An actual Newcastle match. Not sure what to do with myself.
Tonali’s injury on international duty obviously not too concerning as he took his place on the bench, but the news wasn’t so good on Joelinton, who I assumed was being rotated after a pair of appearances for Brazil. It wasn’t until after the game I found out he had finally succumbed to that dodgy knee and was away to see a specialist. This will surely be for the best given he hasn’t been himself this season, but a blow nonetheless, with a huge set of games ahead.
There was a turnaround towards the end of the half, with Schar taking a shot from distance that deflected out for a corner. Trippier decided against any clever business and went route one into the box, finding the head of Botman. His header to the back post looked like a simple nod over the line for Bruno, but he managed to hit the despairing dive of Flekken.
Anthony Gordon was once again Newcastle’s best player, outstanding on the right hand side today and the outlet through which most attacks went. He must have covered more ground than anyone else in the league this weekend, and it was his chasing down what looked like a lost cause, that proved decisive.
Well, after Brentford failed to do whatever this was meant to achieve, Wilson smacked the pen into the postage stamp. Have it. I’d say Newcastle even went a bit easy on things late on. With half an eye surely on Milan, the substitution of Barnes for Almiron on 83 minutes was the only change made by Howe, meaning that Isak and Tonali stayed unperturbed on the bench. Selection will be interesting to say the least for that one. Despite another weak back post connection from Wissa in injury time the points were secured.
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