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In a second successive performance in which Newcastle were pummeled for much of the second half, manager Sam Allardyce has made it clear it’s the team’s defensive performance that let the side down.
Newcastle did get the first goal and it was a tremendous effort from Oba Martins, who controlled the ball beautifully between the two [...]

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Sam Allardyce blamed the defensive qualities of Newcastle today for the defeat, and is wasn’t just the back four who came in for criticism.
He also assigned responsibility for our poor defending to our midfield and even forwards – because they didn’t get the defensive job done today.
We agree with that.

Sam Allardyce - blasts Newcastle’s defending [...]

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Michael Owen could be fit for England’s European 2008 qualifiers, according to Sam Allardyce.
Owen had been expected to miss the England qualifiers against Estonia and Russia next month after having two operations, one on Friday and th other today.
But the surgery in Germany has been so successful that the England striker could be back [...]

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Here are some points we have noticed that Man City today ruthlessly exposed. But at least we have a good idea now what they are, so we can work on them.
One thing that was noticeable was the skill Sven Eriksson has quickly brought into the Man City side - so these skilfull players are available [...]

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For the second time in 5 days Newcastle were beaten by a faster and more skillful team and were almost overrun in the second half. The first half was OK as a contest with Martins getting a great goal for us. To be truthful - but for two wonderful saves by the restored and [...]

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In a pulsating first half with both teams playing attacking exciting football the score at half time is 1-1.
Both teams from the KO made it clear they were going for the win and both teams attacked each other form the first whistle.

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TEAMS

Newcastle: Shay Given, Habib Beye, Steven Taylor, David Rozehnal, Charles N’Zogbia, James Milner, Alan Smith, Geremi, Nicky Butt, Mark Viduka, Oba Martins
Subs: Steve Harper, Jose Enrique, Emre, Abdoulaye Faye, Matty Pattison
Manchester City: Joe Hart, Vedran Corluka, Javier Garrido, Richard Dunne, Micah Richards, Stephen Ireland, Michael Johnson, Martin Petrov, Dietmar Hamann, Elano, Emile Mpenza
Referee: Chris Foy

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On this spot every day - following some good comments and suggestions - we’ll include the four football quotes each day - and also have a question of the day. We’ll post the question on our Newcastle United Forum or we’ll highlight an existing topic that one of our readers has already posted that [...]

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Sam Allardyce has talked about Eriksson’s England record ahead of our game today with Manchester City.
When you consider what Sam says it really does point out how similar England and Newcastle have been over the last 40 years or so – good teams with some great players, but cannot win anything.
Let’s see what Big Sam [...]

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Steven Taylor is as positive as ever and of course is now back in Newcastle’s starting line-up following the groin injury Cacapa sustained last Sunday. We still don’t have any return date on Claudio.
Steven will have to challenge for a first team place this season but he gave a solid performance on Tuesday night with [...]

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We saw the article on Charles N’Zogbia when he zoomed up to 3rd place in the Actim index. So we’ve been looking at the index and we do know that Sam is very keen on the index to gage players performances.
So we’re going to take a lot more notice of this index from now on [...]

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