However I see not a lot has changed. Alan Pardew is, against all odds, still in the managerial hotseat, we’re still struggling as a team and we’ve still yet to record a win in the league this season.
United will be aiming to change the last part of that statement this afternoon when newly-promoted Leicester City visit St James’ Park. It’s an interesting one for me personally as I live near Leicester these days and married into a family of which half were born in Leicestershire, so for me today the banter stakes are high.
For Newcastle, the stakes are even higher. Results may have been poor but I cling onto the fact that we’ve salvaged recent draws against Hull and Swansea when we could have hidden and got beat. Again. Although a large part of avoiding defeat has been down to the return of Papiss Cisse who will be hoping to add to his tally of four league goals this season.
Newcastle:
Emmanuel Riviere is doubtful as reported yesterday although the other injury concerns, namely Tim Krul, Daryl Janmaat and Paul Dummett, should be fit to feature. French pair Moussa Sissoko and Remy Cabella returned from international duty with France with no problems while Cheik Tiote and Papiss Cisse survived long-haul international trips unscathed which means that Davide Santon and Siem De Jong remain our only senior first-team absentees.
Leicester City:
Matt Upson and Zoumana Bakayogo are the only injuries that former United caretaker boss Nigel Pearson has to contend with.
Previously…
We haven’t had much of a recent history against the Foxes with our last meetings coming from when we faced each other in the Championship where United secured a 1-0 victory at St James’ Park while only a draw could be mustered against 10-men at the Walkers Stadium.
Historically though we do have the upper hand, especially at home where the 54 games played at St James’ Park have yielded 36 victories for United with Leicester returning home South with victory on just seven occasions.
Overall 108 games have been played to date with Newcastle winning 46, Leicester winning 37 with 25 stalemates thrown in for good measure.
Stats and facts:
The Magpies are the only side yet to score first in a Premier League game this season.
Out of the 17 ever-present Premier League sides in 2014, Newcastle have earned the fewest points (20), scored the fewest goals (21) and conceded the most (49).
Leicester have only found the net once in their three league matches away from home this season.
However they are the second-most efficient scoring team in the Premier League, with 11 of their 62 shots resulting in a goal (18%). Chelsea lead the way with 20 goals from 101 shots (20%).
Final thought…
It’s actually starting to get desperate and we’re almost at the point where we’ve gone beyond a bad start and look to be settling into a battle to get away from the bottom of the table. That will get harder and harder unless we start picking up points and even a win today would only see us potentially move up one place.
But we do need that win and the longer it takes to come the harder it will be to achieve. Haven’t we waited long enough for one now?
Howay the lads!
Date: Saturday, 18th, October
Time: 3pm
Venue: St James’ Park
load of **** Anita
load of ****
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Bris it stinks it really does. Same thing every game, no variation, very poor
kIMTOON(Quote)
nee luck
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Cisse looks as ****** off as you can be, getting sod all service
kIMTOON(Quote)
oooh unlucky. looks better
mark(Quote)
c’mon score from a corner I dare you
kIMTOON(Quote)
Someone posted on here that on average 95% of corners come to nothing. How far off are we from that 5% of effective corners? Any real stat-head out there?
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
wtf Cisse
WTF ❓
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Think I’m losing the will to live watching this
Geordie Deb(Quote)
Shocking miss, for **** sake
Newkie(Quote)
I mean 95% of corners in the league. That’s if I remember the post correctly… which is unlikely, given my basic stupidity.
Fuuuuuuck, Papiss, I love you man, but WTF?
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
unlucky Cisse, looks hungry, was a tight angle 😯
mark(Quote)
What happened to a yellwo for a deliberate hand ball? Should be off, fucking joke
Newkie(Quote)
Howay Lads!!!
GTE(Quote)
Cisse that was **** poor.
Munich Mag(Quote)
sucker punch coming up 😯
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Cabella for Goufman?
This is drudgery. It is supposed to be entertainment, right?
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
Leicester pass the ball round really quickly at times. We need to watch them going forward.
Munich Mag(Quote)
Science is definitely against us today
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Anita off. What has Gouffron done this game ?. The bloke is useless.
Munich Mag(Quote)
Just as papiss misses my PC freezes had to shut down and restart and now can’t get the link back as it says it’s been shut down due to copyright infringement
kIMTOON(Quote)
can see 0-1 coming up.. 👿
Munich Mag(Quote)
need to see more from Sissoko and Colback
They are anonymous
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Got a new link now 😀
kIMTOON(Quote)
**** me who died ❓
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you never missed owt Kim
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Can’t believe that Cisse miss, that was the one and only real chance
kIMTOON(Quote)
heart in mouth stuff this
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Only one winner here I’m afraid.
Munich Mag(Quote)
Haidara coming on
what’s that gonna do
hows that gonna get us the win?
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watch them snatch it
kIMTOON(Quote)
Aliennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnget in
kIMTOON(Quote)
GOAL
OBERTAN
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GaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAABBBBYYYY
Newkie(Quote)
That was a very good goal
kIMTOON(Quote)
great strike that was
nice one Squidward 😆 😛
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😀 gettin Obertan
mark(Quote)
First time we have scored first for ages
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aND now the stream dies!
Newkie(Quote)
cool heads lads cool heads
kIMTOON(Quote)
to be fair he has been our best player today
Massive boost for his confidence too
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Newkie –
http://ifeed2all.eu/watch/290825/1/watch-newcastle-united-vs-leicester-city.html
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Can already hear Tory Boy heaping all the praise on Percy.
Great management by the purple parsnip.
😳 😳
Percy has transformed Squidwards career.
blah blah blah
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Saylor playing injured, made of glass that lad and no CB on bench
kIMTOON(Quote)
Howay Lads hold on for the last 10 mins
PLEASE
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wow we got lucky again
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shocking defending
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Should be killing this off now, too much play in our half
kIMTOON(Quote)
sing when we’re winning
we only sing when we’re winning
sing when we’re winning
we only sing when we’re winning
(repeat)
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
horrible link stop bloody start 👿
kIMTOON(Quote)
Looks like I’m missing our first positive result.
Dubai Toon(Quote)
ffs another miss
kIMTOON(Quote)
Deary me Cisse
that was the chance to kill off the match
**** poor
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Perez looks more composed than Cisse
I like the look of the Lad
No doubt Percy will drop him again after this.
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3 mins added time ffs
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3mins to hang on 🙄
kIMTOON(Quote)
nice work remy
kIMTOON(Quote)
come on ref blow the whistle ffs
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At last 3 precious points, phew
kIMTOON(Quote)
Thank ****, a win! And the scum got buggered, finally the gods smile on us
Newkie(Quote)
Phew!
brisvegas(Quote)
3 points in the bag at last
well done Saylor at the end there too
HOWAY THE LADS
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😯 i thought they would equalise there.. phew
*** Pards gets a win. 😆
good win, some decent performances..
out of the bottom 3 😀
mark(Quote)
Poor game though it has to be said
kIMTOON(Quote)
Drained 😕
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Expect Saylor to be out next game as he was signalling injury to the dugout 10 mins before the end. Who steps up if him and Willo injured?
kIMTOON(Quote)
Well it wasn’t pretty but who cares. Howay the lads !
Munich Mag(Quote)
Kim – we could have been 2 or 3 up in all fairness
but yeah poor game.
Thank **** its over and that monkey is off our back
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Well a win is a win and hopefully will kick start us but i saw a lot in that game to tell me we are in for a very hard long battle in the bottom 6 or 7 . Still it at least was something too cheer and boy do i need that .
Axel(Quote)
BB, me too mate, it’s bloody hard work watching us and has been for a long time sadly .
Jabba should consider this too as I can’t see much tv exposure next season if we survive as we offer no entertainment. Lots of non exposure for his tat shops .
kIMTOON(Quote)
Thank God for that.
I think the Sunderland players were confused because Southampton also play in red and white stripes – kept passing it back to them and shooting for their own net.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
And we’re still in the bottom 3 🙁
kIMTOON(Quote)
Poy8 sacked in the morning ? 😆
Axel(Quote)
I’m glad Obertan is repaying my faith in him. Just me.
funkyjesus(Quote)
I don’t know if anyone else noticed but Tiote put his giant diamond stud earrings back in to sit on the bench. He so gangsta.
Eric Sykes(Quote)