Watched the first half back and think this even more now about the importance of whether teams can match us physically and our intensity Dont think newcastle were actually that disastrous on a tactical level or anything, most of our success came through winning second balls and DCL bullying cbs i think. We rarely played through their press (only really when a mid dropped into b3 and we had decent lhs combos) and were often forced longer/more direct, a bit like vs brentford where we were trapped wide and long but the difference being that the long balls caused us a problem in that game because it just led to possession loss after loss as brentford could match the physicality. Stach playing as the R10 helps a lot. We also forced newcastle long a lot with our press, but newcastle didnt have an aerial outlet like DCL, or the midfield to win second balls, especially after nico g went off
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