Newcastle at home actually had quite a few injuries and were basically left with only the starters who could line up the starting 11 and had to start the substitutes, as they lined up in a 433 with defenders Schar, Lascelles, Livramento, Trippier, midfielders Joelinton, Guimarães, Miley, and in the front line Isak, Gordon, Almirón
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Lined up in 4231 with defenders T. Silva, Badashile, James, Cucurella, backs Enzo Fernández, Ugochukwu, attacking midfielder Gallagher, wings Sterling, Palmer, and forwards Jackson
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Both teams started out with a lot of emphasis on their team structure, with Newcastle being so short-staffed that it is now impossible to play with substitutions as a way of strengthening the attack as before, especially with substitutes on the field and having to be very aware of the defense, while the
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With the game tied 4-4, they were sure that their strength was their high-speed forward line, and they planned to play a fast attacking game in their own half of the field after intercepting the opponent's passes, allowing the front three to break through the opponent's defense.
But after 12 minutes of play, Newcastle began to allow the right side to generate passes that
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Originally defended well, but the defense backed up deeper when defending a pass, resulting in Newcastle getting the ball out wide and Miley generating a gap in the 20-yard box, which he passed forward, at which time
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Badiashile ran out with Ugochukwu to try and block, which was also meant to be offside, but Cucurella on the right didn't pull out in time, leading to Miley's forward pass, which turned into a one-touch goal instead of being offside, and Isak was able to easily turn around and one-touch the ball in the 11-yard box.
Cucurella did actually run forward, but he was obviously a bit slow, Badiashile had already released Isak to go forward and Cucurella was dragging him back, he really wasn't paying attention to the central area, but Badiashile did take a bit of a risk by pressing forward, at least you could see the
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The defense doesn't seem to be unified
Newcastle was feeling it after taking the lead.
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The defense wasn't very good, and they were more interested in pressuring the offense next, though
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's counterattacking ability was still strong, and at the 21:00 mark Newcastle center back Lascelles took the ball in the middle of the field and tried to push it forward, being
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Clipped the ball away and then used a direct pass to allow Sterling to take the ball and try to go straight into the box, Trippier was forced to foul and receive a yellow card, which resulted in Sterling playing a very nice free kick straight into the goal.
At 24:00 Newcastle used Gordon to make a long run down the left, T.Silva went to cover him and ended up falling over while trying to clear the ball, a sight never to be seen from the previous T.Silva, which was actually a warning sign at that point
Newcastle quickly began to target
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They thought that Cucurella's habit of going up for assists would create space for crosses, so they stepped up the attack on the right, with Trippier starting to go up and join forces with Almirón and Guimarães running to the right, creating a numerical advantage in this area, and all three were able to make crosses.
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There wasn't much they could do about that, allowing Newcastle to get the ball up in the area on a number of occasions, and they had to counterattack as soon as possible after Newcastle's passes ended.
But the space in the back created by Newcastle's pressure also allowed the
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Utilization. At 31 points.
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Newcastle's defense was vulnerable at this point, as a quick pass to the center of the field to Enzo was parried away.
The first half ended in a draw, after the two teams came up in the second half, Newcastle started to change their tactics, they tried to minimize the ground game to push forward, instead, they wanted to give the ball directly to the central striker when they crossed the center line, the main purpose of this practice is not to let the players push too far forward, so that the back side can always keep the four people can be horizontal in a row, try to lower the
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The edge rushers can rush the opportunity
It's been very successful.
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The wingers did get fewer chances in the second half
At the 59th minute, Gordon drew the ball from the left side and sent it to the center, Lascelles was unmarked in the middle of the field and scored a header. In order to prevent the Newcastle players from pressing on, T.Silva had already moved to the outside of the field to defend the ball, and the center of the field was handed over to Badiashile, however, there were too many Newcastle players, and Badiashile was unable to take care of the ball that was already in the back of the field. Lascelles came up behind him, and Cucurella also had a defender, leaving Lascelles completely unmarked.
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The Defense Delivered
