Jurgen Klopp just asked Virgil van Dijk: “Is Robbo ok?”
Van Dijk gives thumbs up, says: “It’s fine, it’s a scratch.”
Klopp beats his chest and roars: “Yes, Robbo!”
No wonder… Robertson, once again, barely put a foot out of place. Argument to say he’s in best ever form.
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Had a pretty good opportunity for a goal similar to last week’s as well had Naby had a better view of the pitch with that shot he took early on. Had he have just dinked it up on a diaganol to the back post Robbo would have had a free header.
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We made that look easy.
Good win. Shame City will win.
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Had a family gettogether and only watched patches of the game.
Three points and no injuries 
Some key players get a break 
We were rather untidy during the game 
Wasteful. At least one of the chances Mane, Jota and Salah got should have been a goal 
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Yeah! Keita kept losing the ball, all he did was the important thing score the all important goal.
Job done on to the next one. I do wish Robo had even a half decent shot on him though. For someone who is so good at crosses and passes all he had to was pass the ball over their keeper and make those two defenders running back try and keep it out, but he tamely puts it into the keepers hands. Oh well, can’t be great at everything i suppose.
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Thanks to whoever added the subs to the post match poll
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Made a few changes and got the job done. Can’t ask for more than that. Was really nervous at seeing Millers name on the team sheet, but he was sound. That might be his last start for us, you know…what a signing.
Naby was the clear man of the match. Brilliant performance from him.
Tell you who pissed me off though. Jota. A couple of chance to finish the game by playing simple square ball for a team mate on a tap in, and he not only takes the shot, but blasts it straight at the keeper. Quality player, but decision making needs works.
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We made it look they had a chance bunch of tossers created nothing
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There seem to be other opinions on his performance. He did play the 1 perfect pass to set Keita loose for the goal, but I was shocked to see this on fotmob:
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Yeah made a few errors but he did some great enforcing. Knocking big fat defenders over and picking up scratches like Robbo did. We need that as well particularly with players like Salah and Diaz alongside. Might have been missed by some but Newcastle set a very intimidating, physical style with a very high intensity. Millie and Henderson and of course Robbo did a good job however so did Gomez (who hasn’t played much) and Jota.
At least Jota gets stuck in which is more than can be said for some.
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Obviously 3 points are all that matters but we did it the hard way,if we took a few chances that came our way it would have been a breeze.
As it was ,sat on the edge of my chair to the final whistle!
Naby MOTM for me,we are really seeing now why we hung out for him.
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Howe could have done more - he (or his team) would actually have already seen it and know it was a fair challenge. But of course no, he likes to play games.
And of course no manager would have wailed about the unfairness of it, claimed Salah would have gotten the call, and submitted a complaint to the FA over it…
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Took money from MBS. Who cares what he thinks.
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Yeah, he seems to have that habit to blast when facing the keeper, when placing either side would be the better percentage shot (think back to that game with only the defenders on the line). If you’re gonna blast it, you need to do the Alan Shearer type of shot. Avoid blasting at the keeper’s head, as that’s the place where even armchair keepers will instinctly save to protect their face.
The decision making aspect is what Klopp and the coaching staff will work on with him. Also, can see his link up play has improved a lot since he first started for us.
No where near Bobby capability in link-up (who is?), but something to improve upon. Probably our best attacking header of the ball. Good at the snapshots when at an angle from goal, and for the Suarez style scurries. He’s the player in our team most likely to be on the periphery of the match, but then conjure up a goal from no where. He also has that Portugese fire in him to make sure the ref is aware of the other team’s antics.
Suppose it was one of those days with our forwards. The Mane counter, when he should have taken a touch to get in better position before hitting it. The Mo one on one when he did everything right, except his magical left foot let him down on the final touch when trying setting up the finish. The Andy looped cross when Dubravka was in no man’s land, when a ball along the floor was the obvious crossing lane.
But we are now an efficent team, where on these type of days, we’ll force out the result in some other way. We’re in unprecedented times here, in contention in each competition. Yes, the Man $hitty results bring 2019 deja vu feelings, but there’s still four games to go. Pep may yet implode.
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We need City to hopefully loose to Madrid and not make their holy grail final…dent their confidence and then we see a draw against Newcastle or the Liverpool boys at Villa help us out on the final day 
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Had to listen to the game on Talksport and genuinely thought we were getting battered. Constantly talking how fragile we looked, how our high line was “getting away” with offside calls and barely mentioned Liverpool even having the ball. It was honestly a bit of a cheerleading session for Newcastle. Towards the end of the game they started mentioning that Newcastle “haven’t really threatened today” which I thought was odd since that was not the impression given for the other 85 minutes of play.
Then after the game I look at the stats, read in here (where honestly quite a few of us are more critical than the team deserves) and watch extended highlights to realise that we totally dominated the entire game with a rotated squad on a short week (why did Man City get the late kickoff after playing a day earlier?). Love seeing Keita on form, I’m an acknowledged ‘stan’ for him, also Gomez continuing to play well at right back is a huge boost.
I’m pretty disgusted by the commentary around Newcastle. I know it’s been mentioned many times before that their owners are murderous, dictatorial oil theives but now we seem to have hit the backlash to that kind of “wokeness”. Several times in the build up to the game the commentary team talked about how “brilliant” it was to see the new owners interacting with the fans, without any mention of their other pastime of executing gay people. The entire match was then, as previously mentioned, a cheerleading session for Eddie Howe - who is still dodging questions about the ownership that he chose to work for - and the new signings such as Bruno Guimaraes but once again without mentioning that his signing was only possible due to the theft of a nation’s natural resources by Newcastle’s owner.
Then, I see on Twitter that Jake Humphrey did the TV presenting and before said “As always with this club people are queueing up to have a pop”. Two major problems here…
- Always? Really? Do you, Jake, honestly think Newcastle are big enough to “always” have a queue of critics? Aren’t Newcastle fans historically the biggest critics of their own club?
- Why do you think Newcastle are being critiqued now, Jake? Is it possibly because that new great form they suddenly discovered is off the back of signings and managerial appointments made with blood money by a man who executes children? Possibly? And whose criticism is it you’re worried about, Jake, was it Amnesty International by any chance? What a fucking wanker.
I do know he somewhat walked those comments back by saying any praise of the club is only praise for “Eddie and the boys” but those players and your pal Eddie all chose to work for this person who uses slave labour and murders journalists who criticize him. Then they think they’re fine to just wash their hands of it, refuse to answer questions about the ownership and say nonsense like “I just focus on the football” - you don’t get to just focus on the football when you work for a murderous dictator you insencere, money grabbing, moral sink hole.
Don’t get me started on the Premier League, the British government, the fans and everyone else who allowed this deal to happen. Newcastle fans just today have flooded messages to the child killer telling him how much he has restored hope to their club. Seriously, fuck every single one of them. I’d have walked away from Liverpool in a heartbeat if that were us.
Fuck Newcastle United, fuck bin Salman and fuck everyone who cheerleads, celebrates and enables this disgusting sports washing venture. May you all drown in the blood of those murdered children. Twats.
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Newcastle created noting, defensibly we were solid. It looked close because Jota dicided it was his day to score instead of passing the ball.
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Yeah, the result is the only thing that could make anyone think this was an even game.
A one goal lead is never comfortable, but this was as comfortable as it gets. Normally, a one goal lead means there will be a period towards the end where the opposition manages to create some pressure, but that never happened here.
They had the theoretical threat of Saint-Maximin on the break, but in reality nothing materialised. One attempt from outside the box was the only thing I registered in the second half.
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