26-10-2016, 10:13
You can say that again Snooty 
Dreams of playing Qarabag in the Europa League came to a shuddering halt in front of a staggering large crowd of 49042 at St James's Park as North End turned in a performance of such utter dross that it was probably a relief to lose by only six,it could quite have easily been ten.
We made nine changes, Unted made seven although when you bring in players that you have paid over £10 million for it can hardly weaken your side as was proved last night. United's bench could have won games on their own such was the talent on it.
By the time United had taken the lead after about 15 minutes they had already hit the post through Hayden? and Hanley had had a header cleared from the line.
The first came from a free kick Ritchie's free kick was inch perfect, North End's defenders statuesque Mitrovic nodded home with ease. The next bit of meaningful action was probably the game killer, Browne clumsily clattered into Colbackleading with his elbow, both players left the pitch Colback being replaced by Uncle Fester(Shelvey) and Browne to the changing room following the red card.
From then on in it was down to damage limitation, get to half time one down we may have had a remote chnace, but once Diame had scored just before half time from outside the box it was game over. It could have been three when Doyle horrendous back pass(was his only contribution of the night) set up a glorious chance Ritchie confronted by keeper Lindegaard unselfishly passed the ball to Diame eight yards out with an open goal, he virtually tripped over the ball and put it wide.
Would have settled for a four goal defeat however that was the score within 10 minutes of the restart, first a penalty looked soft even from my vantage point in the clouds two miles away, three United players argued as to who would take it, Ritchie won, he scored blasting the ball off the underside of the bar into the net, within two mintues Mitrovic had slalomed past non existent defending to make it four, he got booked for throwing his shirt to the floor after scoring(well he is from the Balkans)
Then the goals stopped for a while at least although the excellent Astu managed to hit the woodwork twice, other chances went wide and Lindegaard saved others.
With 10 minutes to go the faithful away support started to sing "we only want one shot" when Lo and Behold we ventured into enemy territory and won two corners, to an ironic standing ovation. Even funnier we nearly scored Huntington's header was well saved by Sels and that was the sole sum of our attacking for the night.
United rounded off the scoring with two late goals Diame weaved his was through the debris of the defence curling home from 20 yards past a keeper who did not move, Perez then curled one home from inside the box past a keeper who did not move and it was six.
For us Davies sadly proved last night he is not good enough, have doubts about Lindegaard although to be fair to him he is going through a divorce which can't be easy, man of the match the 1400 away fans excellent as usual.
Newcastle United 6 Preston North End 0 Att 49042
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez:
"We play Preston again. They will try to amend the situation; they will try to change things. We will be playing away, so it will be totally different.
"It's another competition, so we have to enjoy it. Normally I say one or two days and after, concentrate on the next game. It will be tough, for sure."
Preston boss Simon Grayson:
"I'm not going through that again on Saturday. This is a big arena; it's a big pitch - they make it big. It will be different on Saturday.
"I'm not going to make promises that it's going to be a different scoreline, but I'd like to think that it will be.
"We could have played our strongest team from Saturday and still been beaten tonight. The league is our priority, but we are hugely disappointed."
Dreams of playing Qarabag in the Europa League came to a shuddering halt in front of a staggering large crowd of 49042 at St James's Park as North End turned in a performance of such utter dross that it was probably a relief to lose by only six,it could quite have easily been ten.
We made nine changes, Unted made seven although when you bring in players that you have paid over £10 million for it can hardly weaken your side as was proved last night. United's bench could have won games on their own such was the talent on it.
By the time United had taken the lead after about 15 minutes they had already hit the post through Hayden? and Hanley had had a header cleared from the line.
The first came from a free kick Ritchie's free kick was inch perfect, North End's defenders statuesque Mitrovic nodded home with ease. The next bit of meaningful action was probably the game killer, Browne clumsily clattered into Colbackleading with his elbow, both players left the pitch Colback being replaced by Uncle Fester(Shelvey) and Browne to the changing room following the red card.
From then on in it was down to damage limitation, get to half time one down we may have had a remote chnace, but once Diame had scored just before half time from outside the box it was game over. It could have been three when Doyle horrendous back pass(was his only contribution of the night) set up a glorious chance Ritchie confronted by keeper Lindegaard unselfishly passed the ball to Diame eight yards out with an open goal, he virtually tripped over the ball and put it wide.
Would have settled for a four goal defeat however that was the score within 10 minutes of the restart, first a penalty looked soft even from my vantage point in the clouds two miles away, three United players argued as to who would take it, Ritchie won, he scored blasting the ball off the underside of the bar into the net, within two mintues Mitrovic had slalomed past non existent defending to make it four, he got booked for throwing his shirt to the floor after scoring(well he is from the Balkans)
Then the goals stopped for a while at least although the excellent Astu managed to hit the woodwork twice, other chances went wide and Lindegaard saved others.
With 10 minutes to go the faithful away support started to sing "we only want one shot" when Lo and Behold we ventured into enemy territory and won two corners, to an ironic standing ovation. Even funnier we nearly scored Huntington's header was well saved by Sels and that was the sole sum of our attacking for the night.
United rounded off the scoring with two late goals Diame weaved his was through the debris of the defence curling home from 20 yards past a keeper who did not move, Perez then curled one home from inside the box past a keeper who did not move and it was six.
For us Davies sadly proved last night he is not good enough, have doubts about Lindegaard although to be fair to him he is going through a divorce which can't be easy, man of the match the 1400 away fans excellent as usual.
Newcastle United 6 Preston North End 0 Att 49042
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez:
"We play Preston again. They will try to amend the situation; they will try to change things. We will be playing away, so it will be totally different.
"It's another competition, so we have to enjoy it. Normally I say one or two days and after, concentrate on the next game. It will be tough, for sure."
Preston boss Simon Grayson:
"I'm not going through that again on Saturday. This is a big arena; it's a big pitch - they make it big. It will be different on Saturday.
"I'm not going to make promises that it's going to be a different scoreline, but I'd like to think that it will be.
"We could have played our strongest team from Saturday and still been beaten tonight. The league is our priority, but we are hugely disappointed."
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