I suspect Newcastle won't try to build from the back but will do like Chelsea, just long balls over the midfield and intense pressing to get the second ball. We're absolutely shit when it comes to aerial duels and pretty weak against man to man marking in our half so they could do some damage. Plus they will probably play a low/median block which will make our chance creation very difficult.
I'm not super confident about this game even though Newcastle hasn't been in great form. Like always, if we score early we might have a field day but seeing the absences in our midfield and how tired vitinha looks, it's going to be a rough game…
by graal2008
3 Comments
Draw / Loss
It’s pretty easy to play out of their man to man marking. Just play around them, they are just foul merchants around competent midfielders, hopeless really. We dominated them. We had Pedri and Ding Dong. If you guys have your midfield ready to blast then it’s gonna be easy cruising. If you have the ball they can’t put that many crosses in. 1 or 2 per half, they might just score in those.
Newcastle have many absences, hakimi is back and we are at home so i’d say we are in the best condition to win.