Both teams actually had a lot of injuries in this game, but Newcastle was actually more serious, especially since they lost Pope, who was a very strong goalkeeper, and that had too much of an impact.
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Lined up in 4231 with Romero returning at fullback, BenDavies, Udogie, Porro, Bissouma at the back, Sarr returning, Kulusevski at attacking midfielder, Sunseri on both flanks, Johnson, Richarlison up front
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Newcastle's injuries have started to return in part, Newcastle's injuries have been worse and they were actually going through a hell of a schedule in the first two weeks, and this game was still in the hell of a schedule, Newcastle lined up in a 433, with defenders Lascelles, Schär, Livramento, Trippier, midfielders Miley, Joelinton, Guimarães, Isak, Almiron, Gordon. Miley, Joelinton, Guimarães, Isak, Almiron, Gordon.
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Newcastle have played almost two weeks with a starting eleven that has almost failed to make up the starting lineup, and the record has actually been very good, but these guys have been pretty tired as well, and they even lost their starting goalkeeper, Pope, for this game, and it's substitute goalkeeper Dúbravka who's been in the starting lineup.
Newcastle were clearly concerned that the goalkeeping issue would affect the defense (which it did), so they started to push forward soon after the game started, clearly not wanting to let the
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Pressing up and attacking causes the goalkeeper to go out of position.
Both teams' midfielders are hardcore, with Sarr and Bissouma battling Joelinton and Guimarães, but on top of the other one
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Arranged by Kulusevski, Newcastle was left with only Miley, and the difference could be seen early in the game, the
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The pressure in the midfield was significantly higher, with Joelinton and Guimarães having to drop back to protect the defense and then counterattack.
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soon began to push up and keep attacking, and Newcastle struck a good counterattack at 8:00
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Because they pressed so far forward, even the center backs stood on the center line, making the offside line disappear. Gordon received a pass and went straight into the box to cross the ball, Isak was about to kick the ball in, but Ben Davies desperately shoveled the ball at the last moment and barely cleared the ball.
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Slowly gaining ground, Newcastle were at a disadvantage in the midfield battle, while the
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Gradually, they saw that if Newcastle wanted to counterattack, they had to rely on Trippier to go up for a cross or a long pass, so they started to try to press Trippier with Sun, intending to press Trippier right into the box while stopping Newcastle's counterattacks
This approach is very effective, Trippier's recent state in the defense does not seem to be very good, before the Everton also had a mistake, and now Sun's pressure, immediately forced to Trippier and have in the generation of passes, but also highlights the Sun's state is very good!
The most crucial scene of the game happened in 24 minutes, Newcastle got a free kick in front of the goal, Trippier opened the ball and dropped it to the left side of the box, Lascelles rushed up to try to catch it, but it was not a good ball to catch, and as a result, Lascelles couldn't completely stop and rushed out of the bottom line, but it seemed like he had a strain on the thigh, and in hindsight, it was actually at this time that Lascelles was injured. Lascelles was already injured and couldn't speed up at the back, which was the main reason why Newcastle's defense collapsed in the end.
Followed at 25 minutes.
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Attacking outside the Newcastle penalty area, Ugogie had already run to the front waist position to distribute the ball to Sun, evolved into Sun singled out Trippier, as a result, Sun launched a step with the explosive power of the cross, Trippier could not block the ball, the ball was kicked directly to the 6-yard box, Udogie easily bounced the ball to break the goal!
In fact, Newcastle's goalkeeper Dúbravka had already begun to be a bit of a situation, he seems to be weak on the two points of standing out and striking, there is the situation of stopping halfway through the striking, this goal is also the last time he went forward when the pace is a little bit wrong, and the angle of Sun can only be passed to the middle of the field, but Dúbravka did not notice that the Udogie has already arrived in front of the goal, his action is a little bit slower, and the Sun passed particularly fast, resulting in the loss of the Newcastle goal. Dúbravka didn't realize that Udogie was in front of the goal, he was a little bit slow and Sun passed a little bit fast, which led to Newcastle conceding the goal.
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Apparently having figured out that Newcastle's Trippier defense was having problems, the offense continued to give the ball to Sun at the 36:00 mark
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Directly launched a long pass, the ball Trippier in the top of the penalty area should have been forward top or top to the goalkeeper, but he did not fully in place the result was not good, the ball bounced up to the right bottom line, the result of the Sun went over to wait for the ball, and then evolved into a one-on-one duel with Trippier, this time, Sun directly over the bottom of the line after Trippier passed towards the six-yard box, Richarlison unattended easily broke through the goal. Richarlison was unmarked and scored easily.
