This was the team for the 5-0 thrashing at Leicester City, including the three second-half substitutions.
These are our individual player ratings of yesterday’s performance.
Martin Dubravka – 3
- Five shots on target and five goals pretty much sums up Dubravka’s afternoon. He was good in the first half when he made a vital stop on Ben Chilwell, and also came out to punch a promising cross from Harvey Barnes. Newcastle were still in the game though when Dubravka was beaten by Vardy at his near post for the second goal. Vardy struck it cleanly but it was a save Martin should have made. We always praise Martin for making the saves to keep Newcastle in games. This time he made the error that slammed the door shut on Newcastle’s hopes of getting anything out of the game.
Emil Krafth – 3
- The Swede did not seize his chance in coming back into the squad. He failed to handle the threats from Ben Chilwell and Harvey Barnes. He was easily beaten on a one-two that freed Chilwell through on goal but Dubravka did well to react. On the fourth goal, he gave Mark Albrighton far too much space as he easily picked out Vardy for the header. Both Krafth and Javier Manquillo have failed to impress enough in their opportunities this season.
Fabian Schar – 5
- Schar put in a committed effort but the back four went to pieces in this game. Fabian failed to react quickly enough on Ricardo’s run for the first goal. Though to be fair he was tracking Vardy. Schar had a crucial headed clearance in the first half that he gathered for a run up the right. However, he foolishly opted to shoot rather than trying to play Muto through. Put in some risky challenges in the second half as he had obviously grown frustrated with the events of the evening.
Jamaal Lascelles – 3
- Lascelles inexplicably drifted inside to track Vardy on the first goal even though Schar already had him accounted for. Lascelles was the leader of a back four that was easily picked apart by Leicester. As captain, he again did far too little to rally the lads as their heads dropped.
Paul Dummett – 3
- The deflection for the third goal was harsh on the local lad. However, he failed to adequately track Vardy on the fourth goal or handle Ndidi on the fifth. Dummett also struggled at left back and drifted inside too often which left a lot of space for Leicester City on that flank. He tried his best but was unable to handle the threats that came his way.
Miguel Almiron – 4
- Started very well with a few early runs. However once the first goal went in Almiron failed to have any impact on the game. Steve Bruce must find a position that suits him. The right-wing may not be it.
Isaac Hayden – 3
- Fought hard and was busting his gut to get to Ricardo on the first goal. He was not helped by a struggling Sean Longstaff in the midfield. His tackle on Dennis Praet was very reckless and the subsequent red card killed the game. Hayden shouldn’t be the scapegoat though because he still put in maximum effort.
Sean Longstaff – 3
- In his return, Longstaff was off the pace the entire game. He was obviously rusty and seemed to get easily winded chasing the game. Sean didn’t track Ricardo after Atsu was beaten on the first goal. He lost the ball in a good position on a pass from Joelinton that led to Hayden’s tackle on Praet. This is a game the local lad will likely want to forget.
Christian Atsu – 5
- Was one of the few players who offered anything going forward. However, his final ball was lacking again. He was beaten on a one-two that led to the first goal. However only he and Hayden were in a full sprint to try and get to Ricardo. Worked hard in an ultimately futile effort.
Yoshinori Muto – 5
- Have to feel sorry for Muto. He finally gets a start but was substituted due to the red card. He looked alert in the final third and was active. However, he couldn’t get his feet sorted on a Isaac Hayden shot that was a missed opportunity.
Joelinton – 5
- Was far too isolated and starved of service again. Had a few decent passes when in possession. Going down to ten men doomed Joeltinon to another game on an island up front. The Brazilian is trying but it’s not working out for him at the moment.
Subs
Ki Sung-yueng – 3
- Ki made no difference when he came on the pitch. The midfield was still overrun and he provided little going forward. Ki was also too slow to track runs or to close down any moves.
Andy Carroll – 6
- It was lost cause by the time Carroll was brought on for the ineffective Joelinton. Andy was in the game just to get a run-out. He worked hard though as he tried to press Leicester City when they brought the ball out from the back. Had nothing of note to contribute in the attack as Newcastle weren’t bothered by the time he came on.
DeAndre Yedlin – 5
- There was nothing to judge Yedlin on as he came in for Almiron on the right-wing. The game was lost when he came on and Newcastle were just waiting for the final whistle.
Who Was Newcastle's Best Player In 5-0 Submission At Leicester City?
- Fabian Schar (21%, 186 )
- Andy Carroll (21%, 181 )
- Christian Atsu (12%, 103 )
- Jamaal Lascelles (7%, 58 )
- Sean Longstaff (6%, 55 )
- Isaac Hayden (6%, 54 )
- Miguel Almiron (5%, 44 )
- Yoshinori Muto (4%, 39 )
- DeAndre Yedlin (4%, 34 )
- Emil Krafth (4%, 34 )
- Joelinton (3%, 27 )
- Paul Dummett (3%, 25 )
- Martin Dubravka (2%, 20 )
- Ki Sung-yueng (1%, 8 )
Total Voters: 868
121 comments so far
#BoycottAshley ( OP)
Sep 30, 2019 at 8:56 PM
Comment #81Jane
Will Rafa be due royalties if Bruce copies his formula?
Lee Charnley Bunga Party
Sep 30, 2019 at 9:00 PM
Comment #82Its actually got so bad in midfield that I wish we could have Colback and Saviet available !!
343 again but lets have Almiron wide left , Muto up front and Joelinton wide right which is where is most comfortable
Longstaff and Ki in the middle and is Willems fit? If not maybe put Manquillo at LWB and Yedlin RWB
jane
Sep 30, 2019 at 9:01 PM
Comment #83is that in his contract?
cyprus
Sep 30, 2019 at 9:19 PM
Comment #84VAR really doing its job. Player was two yards on side, offside given, no goal.
VAR check, goal given. Last year it would’ve been still, 1-0.
jane
Sep 30, 2019 at 9:27 PM
Comment #85but if the ref had blown his whistle VAR wouldn’t have been able to over-rule it.
jane
Sep 30, 2019 at 9:36 PM
Comment #86“Young attended The John Henry Newman School in Stevenage, and played school football alongside Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, who was in the same year.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Young
toon22
Sep 30, 2019 at 9:37 PM
Comment #87Hearing that the traitor just left the club ?
jane
Sep 30, 2019 at 9:41 PM
Comment #88where are you hearing this?
lochinvar
Sep 30, 2019 at 9:44 PM
Comment #89At the moment we’re just 4 points behind Man Ure which makes Sunday’s game look like a six pointer – for both clubs !
Lee Charnley Bunga Party
Sep 30, 2019 at 9:54 PM
Comment #90Man Utd are so poor and to be honest we should have got a result against Arsenal first game of the season both are way below what they used to be!
Proper team setup and with Rafa as manager we could have been beating both of them
Nicky the ball tosser
Sep 30, 2019 at 9:59 PM
Comment #91I also think he should stick with the formation that was so successful for us for the second half of last term. Top 6 form.
This idea of opening up and attacking more is a bit far fetched. We are no better in terms of quality, so why is is a good or realistic aim. We’ve essentially replaced Perez, Rondon, Kenedy and Joselu, with Joelinton, St Max and Carroll, the last two of which have barely featured. Right now, we are actually inferior compared to then in terms of quality.
We need St Max and Carroll fit and playing, and we should essentially be playing Rafa’s 3421 for the remainder of the season. The players know it, and know how to execute it, and we are in trouble.
Lindisfarne
Sep 30, 2019 at 9:59 PM
Comment #92https://twitter.com/alanofthenorth
Lee Charnley Bunga Party
Sep 30, 2019 at 10:10 PM
Comment #93@Nicky
The problem is Brucey promised “Front foot” football clearly told by someone in the regime to try get the fans back onside with promises of golden football without a plan to actually play that way!
The first thing every decent team does these days is properly press and make it hard for the other team so many chance are created by winning the ball from defenders these days but we never seem to do any of that this season hardly winning any tackles
Get the basics correct as you say by the end of last season we were regularly scoring goals and attacking teams so it can be done
Jail for Ashley
Sep 30, 2019 at 10:11 PM
Comment #94Oldgit1,
From earlier and your post about cutting Bruce some slack and people pointing out who the real villain is. Bruce walked in to the job knowing exactly the discord between the fans and owner, he was asked by his mates and family not to take the job, not only did he ignore their advice he made a statement saying he didn’t care what had happened in the past and that Ashley had been straight with him, this is despite club legends and his mate being shat on by his new boss. His mate Mclaren didn’t want to be anywhere near the place but took the job when he realised his luck had ran out and he’d never manage in the PL again so came as a last chance saloon, do you honestly think that in the very unlikely scenario of Bournemouth hijacking our recruiting Bruce he would have agreed to come, not a chance. He knows full well that this project is doomed to fail but wanted one last crack at the PL. Under this model the very most we can hope for is a top ten finish and that’s if all the stars align, he as a ‘fan’ knows we deserve a whole lot more than that but is happy to bang the party drum, no asking for facilities or questioning transfer policy, he is as complicit as Lee Churnley and Alan Pardew in the whole sorry mess and deserves every bit of criticism that come his way.
bill
Sep 30, 2019 at 10:16 PM
Comment #95Steve Bruce was an idiot to take the job. Sheff. Wed looks a much better prospect to me.
In conclusion, he deserves all the abuse he is getting.
Lee Charnley Bunga Party
Sep 30, 2019 at 10:18 PM
Comment #96It would just be our luck that Sheffield Wednesday get promoted playing attacking football and we get relegated by a low points total playing “football” if we are lucky!
lochinvar
Sep 30, 2019 at 10:20 PM
Comment #97Man Ure fans are clammering for a new manager after their worst start in the Premiership in years. What they need is a more experienced Manager with strong player connections to their club and who “has acquired a wealth of European experience” as deemed by their former Chairman Peter Kenyon.
Meanwhile Newcastle United now need a new and more youthful manager with attacking flair and who needs to build his ambitions with a magnificently supported club possibly under the ownership of Peter Kenyon.
Swop Old Gunner Solskar for Steve Bruce.
Sorted.
Maybe.
bill
Sep 30, 2019 at 10:20 PM
Comment #98“Ashley had been straight with him”. Does this guy have any brains at all?
We all know how the parasite works. SB was told by everyone not to take the job. He is obviously nice but dim.
bill
Sep 30, 2019 at 10:22 PM
Comment #99Swapping Ashley for the Glazer family might be better but not perfect.
Mister Tuff
Sep 30, 2019 at 10:33 PM
Comment #100Mr Tubbs …………………….oot
Junior Tubbs………………..oot
Bwrucie……………………….oot
Trailer Trash…………………oot
Caravan Club Members….in
Reilly
Sep 30, 2019 at 10:34 PM
Comment #101https://mobile.twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/1178783145937833984
jane
Sep 30, 2019 at 10:39 PM
Comment #102U23s lose again 0-1 to Swansea U23
https://twitter.com/NUFC
Nicky the ball tosser
Sep 30, 2019 at 10:54 PM
Comment #103Need Lejeune, Ritchie, Carroll, St Max in as soon as possible and I think Fernandez now too. 5 good players, and plenty of experience and maturity amongst them.
Also need another quality centre mid and winger in January. QUALITY.
We need to be well prepared, of course, and that was where Rafa was so vital to us, but at the end of the day where you finish in the league is essentially down to the quality you put out on the pitch.
Reilly
Sep 30, 2019 at 10:56 PM
Comment #104https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/sean-longstaff-brands-newcastles-capitulation-20361707
toon22
Sep 30, 2019 at 11:04 PM
Comment #105Who’s the next victim ?
Oldgit1
Sep 30, 2019 at 11:35 PM
Comment #106@jail it appears Bruce is Charnley signing, I know what you are saying and I am on record as not wanting Rafa to leave. However, Bruce accepted the job against all the advice given to him so knew what he was coming into.
This club is the biggest he has ever had, he has spent his entire management with small clubs and saw this as an opportunity of a lifetime. Right or wrong, all I’m saying is give him the ten matches you would give any other manager, then see how it goes.
I think he realised that Joelinton wasn’t going to get enough goals this season and I believe he pushed for Andy Carroll and also wanted Gayle to stay. Remember when Rafa was here Ashley would have forced Rafa to either send Gayle out on loan of sell him.
We haven’t seen ASM yet, hopefully he can spark the season off.
I understand your feelings re Bruce and yes we should never have employed him and perhaps he should have listened to the advice of others, he didn’t. But you and a few on this blog have condemned the guy. I don’t believe he has had enough games to warrant the abuse he is getting. He ain’t going anywhere yet, whether you like it or not.
Essex Geordie Bill
Sep 30, 2019 at 11:35 PM
Comment #107So Brucie is threatening to ring the changes against ManU, That should be interesting!
How about just playing the U23s, at least there’ll be some energy in them.
Sports Direct FC
Sep 30, 2019 at 11:43 PM
Comment #108EGB
I would change the whole eleven if possible. Not sure if AC or ASM are ready to start. bring back Ritchie if possible and even give Matty L. a start.
Essex Geordie Bill
Sep 30, 2019 at 11:46 PM
Comment #109For the music lovers, the missus and I went to a one day festival in Maldon and the headline act was Davy Dodds, must admit I wasn’t familiar with his music but he was bloody good.
Former front man for Red Jasper who were a prog rock band in the 1980s, I’d be surprised if some of the blog don’t know of him, apparently wrote some stuff for the Unthancs and Steeleye Span.
Worth checking out on Youtube!
Mister Tuff
Sep 30, 2019 at 11:47 PM
Comment #110Oldgit – Ki.
If you watch Ki when the opposition have the ball nine times out of ten he does not mark or harass the opposition.
But he positions himself in an open area several feet from any player.
Seems a strange tactic to employ when we are trying to get the ball back.
In any event – although some like him – he is not the answer to any midfield issues we have.
Nicky the ball tosser
Sep 30, 2019 at 11:48 PM
Comment #111Quality, experience, depth and balance Mr Ashley. Proper assets out on the pitch each match day. Can’t succeed in football without it, as you well know, you scalliwag and chancer. At least people outside Newcastle are waking up to him and our desperate plight. That has to be positive.
Bleatin' n Bruced
Sep 30, 2019 at 11:58 PM
Comment #112Bruce knew his capabilities were not up to par for a premier League club and certainly knew his capabilities fell far short of the guy whose warm shoes he was sliding his feet into.
He also knew as a Geordie apologist of old who famously swerved our attentions only to gladly tiptoe up and down the mackem touchline, that he was exposing himself to deserved ridicule and the incredulity of frustrated supporters who had just had the rug of hope yanked right from under their feet – again.
He knew that Rafa leaving was for very compelling reasons – no ambition, strict transfer policy, no managerial say, abandoned academy plans and the drudgery of running on a tight book-balancing budget just to survive the drop each year.
So he can’t be shocked to find he has got a hybrid team of players he had no hand in assembling and who know their hopes of career glory are not to be found here. He can’t be shocked to find he joins the ignominious crew who brought us high goal count beatings. He can’t be shocked because his pals warned him not to do it because of all the above.
He deserves what chance then? You have to be kidding surely? The guy knows he’s jumped into bed and sharing pyjamas with the bullying oaf who has wrecked this clubs identity and continues to wring it’s neck in front of us and watches closely to see what our reaction will be because he gets a laugh and money out of it. Win-win.
Bruce had his chance and he blew it when he left that championship club. He should not have come here. I reckon he knows that only too well but he’ll take the money anyway because of his thick fat neck.
toon22
Oct 1, 2019 at 12:06 AM
Comment #113Oldgit
It’s never Jabbas fault
ChicoUSA
Oct 1, 2019 at 12:06 AM
Comment #114I think there is a fake tweet out there saying Bruce and his assistants have left the club. The tweet mimicking an official NUFC announcement…
https://twitter.com/Percycola
Sports Direct FC
Oct 1, 2019 at 12:08 AM
Comment #115Too bad its not true
ChicoUSA
Oct 1, 2019 at 12:12 AM
Comment #116Agreed. But I can’t imagine Ashley and Charnley ever making the right move in a timely manner. They will procrastinate until Feb or later! 😉
Oldgit1
Oct 1, 2019 at 12:12 AM
Comment #117Agree mr tuff, not often I do.
Bleatin' n Bruced
Oct 1, 2019 at 12:16 AM
Comment #118Big question is how could Ashley hope to attract anything better than Bruce? He’s played all his cards now and they are all face up. He can’t even promise a top of the line manager that he’s changed his mind and wants to invest in the club from bottom to top and try and win stuff because nobody in their right mind would believe him. To me it looks like the end game where he digs in and hunkers down waiting for a buyer and will just get the usual parade of low grade coach hoping he’ll find the one who keeps the club just above water until he can jump.
Nicky the ball tosser
Oct 1, 2019 at 12:17 AM
Comment #119https://twitter.com/hashtag/BBC606?src=hash
Superb this. Dips ma’ lid to your sir. Calls in to live radio and expresses our plight perfectly.
ChicoUSA
Oct 1, 2019 at 12:34 AM
Comment #120Tsunki,
The only type of manager I could see coming into this mess would be one who is simply after a big pay day. For example if Fat Mike called Fat Sam and said here is the deal: come take the job for a one year guarantee of 5M. Keep the team up and that will be 10M.