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USG 0 Newcastle 4: Post match reaction
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Iain provides post-match reaction to Newcastle's fabulous 4-0 win in Belgium.
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Newcastle's Victorious Start in Champions League
00:00:17
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to the debut Newcastle my name is Ian Mackay I am your host tonight I'm on my own um as I am on many Wednesday nights but I'm on my own having watched Union Saint-Gélois 0 Newcastle United 4 over in Belgium and Newcastle finally get their Champions League campaign kicked off with some drama of the best kind.
00:00:46
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An absolutely fantastic 4-0 away win. A great performance. um And I'm here to give you the my immediate post-match reaction.
Lineup Changes and Formation
00:00:56
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ah Two changes from the line-up against Arsenal.
00:01:01
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um One in four, Tino obviously out, although delighted to hear today that Tino's knee injury is not a an ACL injury which would put him out for the rest of the season but he should be back within six to eight weeks hopefully he's a fast healer I'll have him back um by the end of November which is good Kieran Trippier took his place pretty standard ah we lined up with 4-3-3 so Dan Byrne playing left back again
00:01:33
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Chow and Botman who I think I'm starting to think are that are our best two centre-halves.
Controlled Performance and Key Players
00:01:41
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They played centre-half. Pope kept his position in goal.
00:01:44
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Of course, Jolinton, Tonali and Bruno played him in midfield. And then we got, as I predicted, Gordon down the left, Alanga down the right, and Big Nick, Volta, Messi, Berber Crouch up front. and Miles off.
00:02:03
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Kev and Joe, by the way, on your predicted line-up last night on the big preview. um Pretty much spot on, Ian. Well done when you had a quick chat with Nicola about it, finishing off the Arsenal review.
00:02:16
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ah But we'll not go we're not go there. We'll not go there. These guys and performed really, really well. I think the first 10 minutes was a little bit of finding out a little bit about each other. Maybe the Newcastle team had heard, as I did, about...
00:02:32
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Union Saint-Gelois being Belgian champions, having taken points off Liverpool in previous European campaigns, and AC Milan, seeing that they'd won 3-1 away from home against PSV in the first of their Champions League round.
00:02:52
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um Top of the Belgian league at the moment. and
00:02:58
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So they did... chat came out looking like I was a bit psyched out by them because it did look on paper. They're in pot four with us. So this was our easiest on paper away game in the Champions League. One we ought to be looking to win if we were going to progress into the knockout stages.
Scoring Strategy and Penalties
00:03:16
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And I was a little bit psyched out going into it. Not really, for the team, not really in great form um and them looking like they really were in form. But I needn't have worried after...
00:03:29
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The first 10 minutes where we sort of sparred a little bit to find out a little bit about each other, we started to take control. think Tonali and Bruno were very good in midfield and Alanga and Gordon going down the wings were terrific.
00:03:48
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They were very, very threatening. Alanga in particular, that's the best I've seen Alanga play for Newcastle. Um, And that's even after the Barcelona game where he set two on a plate for somebody who wasn't there to put us two up at half-time.
00:04:03
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But he was great. He was great. um We scored after about 15 minutes. Half clearance shot by ah shot in by Tonali that looked like it had taken a deflection.
00:04:16
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And I have to admit, I heard the first half in the car on Radio Newcastle. And they said it was a deflection. They could put it down as an own goal for a little while. but haven't seen it half-time when I got home to watch the rest of it, that Nick Valtemada, with the deftness of touches, little back heel to divert to an early shot, which I'm not sure, ah think it would have been an easy save or it would have gone past the post.
00:04:41
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But Valtemada's little flick took it into the other corner and that was us 1-0 up. um
00:04:49
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We just continued playing really quite well. I think we sat back a little bit, um They did have a spell. They did have a spell where they pushed forward and there were a few corners.
00:05:01
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um One way over the bar from one shot. couple shots from outside the box which Nick poked up with very straightforwardly. um But we continued to threaten down the side. Down each side.
00:05:12
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And it was Alanga on a run cutting in that was absolutely scythed down in the penalty area. The defender just lunged at him. Took him out.
Defense and Teamwork
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Clear penalty. um ah Gordon...
00:05:24
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Gordon looking for all the word that he had been practicing his penalties was very, very cool and excellently placed penalty down low to the right where the keeper couldn't get anywhere near it.
00:05:39
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Two up at halftime and we deserved it. We were a little bit lethargic starting in the starting the second half, I thought. um
00:05:50
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Perhaps I ought to play Barone and can tell you about the second half of the next. That's what I'll do.
00:06:32
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So we started a bit lethargic in the second half, and but to be fair, I never really felt there was any worry because Chow and Bachman at the back look so assured. um Even Dan Byrne getting turned inside out by their winger.
00:06:48
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Honestly, I thought he'd left the stadium. he was he was beaten so so all ends up. um Didn't matter because Bachman was there to cover and cut any danger.
00:06:59
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um Newcastle just kept... dominating they dominated the midfield the wingers kept pressing Walter Marder picking the ball up and laying it off to open up the gaps for the wingers who were in an advanced position and I think that's the difference we look threatening with Anthony Gordon running into the final third we don't look threatening with him running back to help out the fullback as he did against Arsenal against Saka so many times um It was ah Anthony Gordon's delightful cross into the box, which bounced up and hit the defender on hand. I think the defender actually just moved his arm out to get it.
00:07:40
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It was a VAR that intervened for us and gave us a third penalty. I know Valtimada was appealing for it, but if it had gone unnoticed, it would have just been standard par for the course in the Premier League.
00:07:54
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However, it's the Champions League and we all remember how Tino got caught against PSG a couple of years ago. So this was a penalty and Gordon did exactly the same routine and beat the goalkeeper.
00:08:07
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The wall's in the back of the net before the keeper gets down
Goals and Game Conclusion
00:08:09
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to it. 3-0. And we can start taking it easy. That's not what we did though. We did we didn't start taking it easy.
00:08:20
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Joe Linton, who huffed and puffed, got himself booked. Wasn't as effective as normal. He came off to be replaced by Miley with half an hour left. And Lewis Miley slotted into that role.
00:08:32
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He looks assured. We can trust him. We trusted him two years ago as a 17-year-old. As a 19-year-old who's been in the gym for two years, I trust him. He's solid. ah Very rarely lets a pass go astray.
00:08:46
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um And the Newcastle kept kept going. There were a couple more substitutions there. as Ursula and Barnes came on. I'm trying remember who they came on for.
00:08:59
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I think Alanga went off. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. and Walter Marder came off as well, obviously, minutes being managed. He's got a big role to play against Nottingham Forest on Sunday, lunch Sunday 2 o'clock. um
00:09:20
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What a fantastic... Newcastle goal, the fourth goal was. It came from one of their corners, which Gordon went out to press the player on the edge of the box and took the ball off him, knocked it up to Barnes.
00:09:34
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Barnes played it through to Asula, who I must say showed a great deal of strength and skill to hold the defender off. Barnes, moving faster than I've seen him move for quite some time, running through for a delightful little ball inside the full-back Bayesula lifted it over the keeper to make it 4-0.
00:09:56
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And the last 10 minutes, I'm wondering, are we going to get a 5-0 away win like we did all those years ago when Rob Lee scored a hat-trick and we beat Royal Antwerp 5-0?
Implications and Future Matches
00:10:06
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Sadly, that wasn't to be.
00:10:08
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But 4-0 is still a remarkable result. Newcastle's biggest Champions League win and certainly their biggest win away from home, which is what they were talking about to start with. I don't think we've beaten anybody more than 4-0.
00:10:22
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even at home. um Wonderful stuff. Wonderful stuff. They played to a man very, very well. I thought Joe Linton was a little bit disappointing, but still put in ah put in a decent enough performance.
00:10:42
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He certainly didn't let the side down. ah He got swapped with Miley, who came in and said was very solid. Alanga was super threatening. Gordon was super threatening. I think we started to see a bit of the future with Volta Marder being able to get the ball out wide to two wingers who want to push on.
00:11:01
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um
00:11:03
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Bruno and Tonali running forward to support the attack. That's what we want. We want more of that against Nottingham Forest. um So well done to Newcastle. A 4-0 away win in the Champions League.
00:11:17
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and I haven't checked But I think with goal difference, that should lift us almost into the top 10 with three points. We'll have to see how are the other results go. I think we were sitting in 13th when we were two up because, of course, we'll be ahead of Liverpool, who have won one and lost one, um but don't have the goals. We're ahead of Chelsea, who won one and lost one, but don't have the goals.
00:11:41
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So long may it continue. Roll on Benfica and Benfica. Jose Mourinho coming to a ground that he hasn't got a very good record at. Um, with a team who've lost their first two games and news to- tonight, I've got a ticket for it.
00:11:59
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So I will be going. I've long time to wait. Is it the end of October? Uh, it's after the international break. Who knows? Might have Wisser, might have Jacob Ramsey in the squad for those that came.
00:12:11
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Um, But yeah, everything's looking up. Newcastle played the way we know Newcastle can play. And we've scored four goals as a result.
00:12:22
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I think that was Newcastle's best team that had out today. um Other than Tino being missing. So, yeah, maybe we swap Burn out for Hall. That's our best line-up, in my view.
00:12:34
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That's why I was predicting it back on Monday night. Look, I'm not going to blather on any more. ah Watch the highlights. Some good goals to see. Two really coolly taken penalties.
00:12:46
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When is Anthony Gordon going to cut his hair, though? What bloody mess. um He looks like Richard Clayderman. that's Does anyone know who Richard Clayderman is? Do you remember that? Anyway, ah roll on Sunday.
00:13:00
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And it's Poster Coglu's Nottingham Forest coming to St. James' Park. Surely we can beat them.