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Daily Newcastle: Leicester 0 Newcastle 3
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Iain flies solo and swiftly reviews Newcastle's walk in the park that surely firms up their position as one of the favourites for Champions League qualification.
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Transcript
Introduction and Congratulations to Kevin
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Hello and welcome to the Daily Newcastle. My name is Ian Mackay and for the very first time I'm flying solo tonight to review the Leicester-Newcastle game that's just finished.
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I should have had Kev with me, but Kevin is in the hospital. He is bouncing his new baby girl, Bonnie Esther, sorry, Bonnie Macy Esther off his knee.
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She must be nearly three hours old now. So massive congratulations from me, Kev and Jen.
First Half Overview: Newcastle Dominates
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Also from, I'm sure, Michael, Joanne and Nicola.
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We are delighted that Bonnie has finally arrived. What that means is I've now got this really awkward podcast to do where I've never...
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I've never just talked on my own. bit dangerous, so go on for about four and a half hours, but I shall try and remain relevant and let's stick to what we need to talk about, which was the game tonight away at Leicester, which Newcastle have won as easily as we predicted that they would last night, 3-0.
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three ni It didn't quite start the way we thought it would start, with a Leicester corner after 20 seconds. But I'm jumping the gun. In this first part, I want to just look at the team that came out.
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I think we predicted that Eddie would go with the same 11 again, and that's exactly what he did. But in doing that, he confirmed that Kieran Trippier was OK. Alexander Izak was OK.
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Joe Linton was OK. So all of those knocks were just knocks that not but they could run off. Anthony Gordon had finished his suspension, but wasn't in the team.
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Didn't even make the bench, so fingers crossed. That's not a continuing issue, but just just just giving him an extra extra few days rest before the big match against Man U next Sunday.
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So yes, the game started and Leicester had a corner after 20 seconds, which is a real shock. This is a Leicester side who have lost each of their last seven home games without scoring. They haven't scored at home since December the 8th and just typical we were expecting that Newcastle would be the team that would allow them to do that.
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app After that early scare though it was what we had hoped it would be, some free-flowing football from Newcastle, an incisive break down the left, Livramento doing his overlapping full-back bit again, putting a fabulous ball right through the corridor of uncertainty.
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I knew I'd be able to work that into one of these one day. Jacob Murphy on the far post to take a very well taken goal. Typical Newcastle really, fast transition, the speed of thought, far too much for a Leicester side that from the off looked a little bit at 6,007.
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Newcastle one up, we're wondering if fair that's a sign of things to come and Ten minutes further in, it looked as if it might well be. The ball was sort of half cleared. Schauer won tackle just in the Newcastle half.
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And whilst Murphy pelted through the middle to try and give him a brilliant through ball to make, Schauer had other ideas. He took a shot. He took a shot from 55 yards, which I learned afterwards is the yeah longest shot in the history of the Premier League to hit the woodwork.
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Shah's shot, beat the keeper, hit the bar and bounced back down. Murphy was sprinting through, managed to miscontrol it twice and still have time to put it in for Leicester defenders wondering why they had stopped to watch where the ball was going rather than running back and and marking Murphy.
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They did look a complete mess. So we wondering how many goals were going to be. And Newcastle continued to dominate in that first half. another good Another good break by Liveramento towards the end of the half, which resulted in a ball for Izak to have a dribble. it It broke to Joe Linton, had a good shot on target, which was pushed out, but pushed out right into where Harvey Barnes could score and and very respectfully didn't go on any wild, crazy celebrations against his old team.
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just simply received the acknowledgement of the rest of his team that he put us the three meal up and then we coasted through to half time, three up and looking every inch like the class above Leicester that we we we really are.
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Now I'm not going to go on for too long on this. As I said, I'm going to stop now. That was the first half done.
Second Half and Final Score
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Here's a word from Bionique.
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We will do that, Ken. Thank you very much for that advice. And Kev's supplement will be including large portions of baby milk.
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Into the second half and Newcastle huffed and puffed a little bit to try and continue their goal scoring. Understandably, I think they eased off a little bit. It was a little bit like when Man City went two up and then declared.
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Newcastle did a little bit the same. To be fair to Leicester, they did make a better game of it. There were a couple of substitutions as Juan Anote and Mavadidi came on.
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and And that made them more combative in midfield. and I think they took the centre-half off, whose name escapes me, and Lewis moved... Sorry, no, they took Christensen off at left-back, moved Lewis, who was playing as a third centre-half,
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and went four at the back instead of five, put the extra man in midfield. They were much more combative in the second half. and Still couldn't really string more than two passes together. The number of times they would try a forward ball that would roll through to Pope. and Yeah, they they didn't look like scoring, to be fair to them.
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And of course, they have managed to complete an eighth game at home without scoring, thereby setting a brand new record. not just for the Premier League, but for any football league side in England.
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We coasted a little bit. Understandably, Howe turned to the substitutes bench to rest some of his big players, if we can call them that, before we have this double header of two home games, which are vitally important for us to get six points. We'll look at that later on.
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But against much stronger opposition than Leicester could provide. at Manchester United on Sunday, day followed by Crystal Palace on Wednesday. it was Bruno and Joe Linton who came off, first of all, for Miley and Longstaff to come on, getting up at least a half an hour run out for both of them, which was excellent to see.
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Longstaff putting himself about. Haven't seen him have a decent run out for quite some time. Of course, at the start of the season, he was the player we needed in midfield to be able to to win a game. It seems a little bit of a forgotten man now. And even Eddie was hinting that this might be his last season.
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Everton very interested, apparently. But we'll see how that plays out later on.
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Isaac and Murphy came off. And Wilson. And Asula came on. Asula chanted for by the crowd before he came on. He gets 20 minutes.
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And he ran about. He looks massive. He looks fast. He looks powerful. He looks like he either wants to score a worldie or... I don't think... He's still got a lot to learn, clearly.
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He's very, very raw. and I was quite impressed with Wilson, actually, when he came on. He was running hard, closing down lots of the easy balls that the goalkeeper might have been trying to make.
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and Good to see him back looking like he's approaching full fitness. What he needs is the goal to give him his 50 goals at Newcastle to to relax him, I think.
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But fingers crossed, we'll provide a very useful tool in the box as we go into these last eight games.
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Newcastle coasted their way through. They had a few harem-scare-em moments, and which weren't really harem-scare-em at all. and It didn't look like scoring very much.
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And I'm honest, the game sort of petered out towards the end. Newcastle set off a 3-0 after about 80 minutes. It didn't seem like they were being very ambitious at all to try and go and get a fourth and a fifth and a sixth and a seventh, which would have put us up into fourth.
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But instead, we've ended up winning 3-0 very, very comfortably. A lot of the big players have only played for an hour or 70 minutes, so should be in a better position to recover fully for the game on Sunday.
Newcastle's League Position and Future Prospects
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And the three points, it's very, very useful. Totally expected, of course, but you do have to beat what's in front of you and pick those points up. Now, I think it's important to just have a look forward, and I'm going to do that.
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So three points tonight, three points tonight that lifts Newcastle level on points with Chelsea into fifth place. Chelsea ahead on goal difference. I think they should have a plus four on us goal difference. We're a point ahead of Manchester City, knock them into the Champions League places and push Aston Villa down to seventh, two points ahead of them.
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Now, The reason why it's fantastic that we picked up these three points is that we have a game in hand on all of those teams. And whereas we've been hoping that we can get our noses in front and stay ahead of the Aston Villas, the Bournemouths, the Brightons, the Man Cities, the teams that are chasing down one of the last Champions League places, for me,
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The fact that Arsenal drew and Nottingham Forest lost on Saturday and that we have a game in hand on those two teams means that I think we should be looking upwards.
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We shouldn't be worrying about whether we're going to finish ahead of Man City in fifth. We should make it our mission to overhaul Nottingham Forest, who are third at the moment.
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And given that we play away at Arsenal and they have a game against Liverpool, which could easily be six points lost for them. Why aren't we chasing down Arsenal for the runners-up spot?
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Maybe I'm being too optimistic with that. But, you know, was being optimistic about the Champions League being on way back in December when everyone was wondering if we were going to even be in a European race.
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I think think the Champions League is very much on and I think this win tonight with the game in hand actually means that we can afford to lose one of these last eight games now and still it'd be in our own hands to finish in the top five.
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Hopefully we'll be in an even stronger position after a home game against Manchester United and a home game against Crystal Palace because everybody else will only have one game to play in the time that we're playing those.
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ah You know, and we could be three, four points ahead of fifth place then. And I think we would all then be looking forward to to getting in points off Aston Villa, to playing Chelsea, to playing Arsenal, because draws are good enough in those games if we're already above them on points.
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I'll leave you with that thought. It's only half. It's only half a podcast tonight, but then there's only a third of the regular team here. So I'm OK with that. and I'm going to go to bed dreaming of runners-up spots and looking forward to the Manchester United game, 4.30 on Sunday, and that's on Tele2.