Game On! Newcastle v Manchester City

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Game On at St James' Park
Game On at St James’ Park
Good evening everyone. and welcome to this match article which will take us through every twist and turn of our Capital One cup tie against Manchester City.

Before I get onto the match tonight I wish to offer an apology.

You’ll notice there was no match report on the game at the weekend which is basically because I couldn’t bear to write about it. Fickle perhaps, but it was a hard defeat to take and I don’t wish to relive it. I’d also like to apologise for the lack of a match preview for tonight. I had planned to write it yesterday but by the time I finished it was 11pm and after working for 15 hours I was pretty pooped by the time I got home and decided to hit the hay before starting work again just nine hours later. One day I’ll win the lottery and not have to worry about money. One can dream…

Speaking of dreams, this game is about silverware and it would be nice to see us actually win something. Unfortunately though I’m struggling to get myself motivated for this because of the club stance on cup competitions which are, in their own words pretty much, not the priority. For me,we’re in it so why not try and win it?

To stand a chance of winning it though we first have to beat a side who we’ve failed to record a win against in eight years. Manchester City always seem to turn it on against us and no doubt we’ll transpire to give another insipid performance and limp out of what is most likely our most realistic chance of silverware.

The game itself is live on Sky here in the UK so finding a stream shouldn’t be too difficult. If you do find a good one then please share it with your fellow United fans by leaving a link in the ‘comments’ section below. Full team news will be published as and when it becomes available.

I’m not usually so downbeat but with everything that has gone on and continues to go on at our club I can’t help but feel disillusioned about it all. Hopefully tonight the players can give a performance that will start to heal the wounds suffered at the weekend, but this is a cup game and it’s only the result that counts, whether that comes in 90 minutes, 120 minutes, or even with penalties.

Howay the lads!

Newcastle: Krul; Debuchy, Williamson, Yanga-Mbiwa, Haidara; Sissoko, Tiote (c), Anita, Gouffran; Shola Ameobi, Cisse

Subs: Elliot, Dummett, Cabaye, Sammy Ameobi, Ben Arfa, Obertan, Remy

Manchester City: Pantilimon, Richards, Boyata, Lescott, Kolarov, Rodwell, Garcia, Navas, Milner, Jovetic, Dzeko

Subs: Hart, Zabaleta, Nasri, Negredo, Silva, Fernandinho, Demichelis

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230 thoughts on “Game On! Newcastle v Manchester City”

  1. Nevermind–your streams are earlier than mine, apparently. I’ll have to refresh this page carefully!

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  7. Okay, you’re way ahead because I read those comments that said offside before Anita even took the kick. I”m off till half time, kids. Come on boys!

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  11. ***** finish from Cisse, Shola’s offside finish wouldn’t have been needed. 👿 👿 👿

    Anita, that was a garbage finish man 👿 👿

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  21. FSOTC, I have a link to Zeinab Badawi, not sure if I’m prepared to fully disclose details however.

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  25. Well, we’re getting into the right positions anyway.
    Talk about upping your game against better opposition.
    WHY THE **** couldn’t we do this on Sunday!?

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  26. Excellent first half by the toon. Well done the lads.
    Funny listening to Sky Sports commentators trying to talk up everything Man City do…pathetic really.

    Gonna struggle in the second half cos Shola will run out of steam, and Cisse is well off..

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  27. We’re playing ok. We did play like this on sunday. The difference was sunderland were more motivated.

    Today city haven’t even started. They’re almost playing as though it’s a friendly. Don’t be surprised if they up their game for 5 mins & score a goal or 2..

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  28. Easy their munich mag. That was not even close to excellent. It was ok but nothing more.

    Man city have also been ok but nowhere near to what they can do

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  34. Rodzilla@107, couldn’t agree more mate. We just lack class in the final third, as we have done for most of the season. We had 4-5 three quarter chances in the first half, which by my recollectioin was a lot more than we achieved against the makkems. There again, we are only playing against Man City so we can’t expect too much 😳

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  36. Indeed MM, it’s this ‘up your game against the big boys’ bollocks that I don’t get. Almost as if we deserved to win against the unwashed, regardless, so dropped a gear. Bottom team, 1 point, fierce rival, better team on paper…blah blah blah….

    Anyway, game on…

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  38. Rodders@111, it seems that City are playing a completely different style than the makkems, which obviously suits us more. Take Toure out of the City midfield and they’re not the same team..

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  42. MM, that’s why Sissoko should be playing through the middle. IMO. Just in front of Anita and Tiote.
    …don’t ask me what that means to our formation though. 😆 😯

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  49. Johno@121, send all questions (with a SAE) to Trinity Mirror Group. I’m sure they’ll be able to answer your question.
    …oh, wait. 😕

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  50. Hats off to Willamson, a thirty bob centre half keeping 60 million pounds worth of strikers quiet. 😉

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  53. Oops, they are starting to turn the screw on young Dummett 🙁

    Brilliant piece of defending there from Iron Mike 😉

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  60. Our midfield are failing to back track. Come on boys !! Tiote playing on his own again 👿 👿 👿 The rest going through the motions.. 👿

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  62. All work and no play makes Alan a dull boy
    All work and no play makes Alan a dull boy
    All work and no play makes Alan a dull boy
    All work and no play makes Alan a dull boy
    All work and no play makes Alan a dull boy

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  69. We’ve wasted some good posession in the final third with sloppy play. Typical really, we are pish in the final third.

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  72. Sunderland were all over us in the last game. There is no doubt they were more up for it than we were. More motivated.

    There was no urgency in the first half today. I’ve no idea why anybody would think that. It’s not like we were closing man city down or pressuring them.

    We were more organised & disciplined. When we didn’t have the ball we had two banks of 4 with nobody being pulled towards the ball – credit to pards for the organisation.

    Best period so far for both teams was necastle in the first 5 or 10 mins after half time. Otherwise both teams lacking ‘urgency’

    Looks like things are getting ugent now..

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  73. HBA – I think we look more threatening having CFs up there instead of this fake no 9 thing going on – but it would be bloody good if we had a CF who could put the ball into the flaming net like!!

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