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Bristol City – The Strengths and Weaknesses
Bristol City Strengths: Very good attacking wise. Bristol City have very good attacking options, with Jonathan Kodjia grabbing 20 goals in the Championship last season. Lee Tomlin was also very prominent at the end of last season, managing to save the club from relegation. This summer’s signing, Callum O’Dowda also proved to be a very good addition at £1.3m. He’s a …
Has giving the captaincy to Lascelles created a problem?
Jamaal Lascelles was rightly awarded the captaincy after his contributions towards the latter part of last season in terms of leadership. He stood up when others cowered under the pressure of a relegation fight and for a 22-year-old to do that was mightily impressive. It certainly struck a chord with Rafael Benitez, who has made Lascelles central to his plans at …
Tactical Musings: Newcastle United 1-2 Huddersfield
So, Newcastle United pick up their second defeat in two games. Gulp. Schoolboy defending aside – what went wrong yesterday? And what will Rafa Benítez be picking over in the coming days? Ineffective Positional Structure What is positional structure, I hear you ask? Essentially, it describes how a team’s players are positioned in any given situation – it’s important as …
Why we must continue to trust in Rafa
Imagine a fan base full of optimism despite having recently experienced relegation. It should be a club in turmoil if logic dictates. But it’s not. Why is that? Well, in this case, it’s due to one man and his name is Rafael Benitez. One of the top ten managers in the world came to Newcastle United when they were in a dire situation. He could not get us out of that …
Is Jonjo Shelvey the answer to our creative woes?
There were a lot of lessons to be learned from the opening day defeat against Fulham and one of those is the lack of creativity in central midfield. On Friday, we set up with Jack Colback and Isaac Hayden in the centre of the park, but neither had the ability to take the ball from the defence and create from deep. This caused a blockage to the final third and …
Opposition View: Newcastle United vs Huddersfield
Fulham is behind us and 52,000 Geordie’s will be behind the Magpies on Saturday afternoon, when we start again, we forget about the loss – we regroup and play against the dangerous Huddersfield Town.