#FT: Newcastle United 4-1 Chelsea
Venue: St. James’ Park
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Newcastle United
Nick Pope, Fabian Schär, Jamaal Lascelles (Paul Dummett), Valentino Livramento, Kieran Trippier, Bruno Guimarães, Joelinton , Lewis Miley, Alexander Isak (Matt Ritchie), Anthony Gordon, Miguel Almirón (Alex Murphy).
Subs: Loris Karius, Ben Parkinson, Amadou Diallo, Martin Dúbravka, Michael Ndiweni, Mark Gillespie.
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Chelsea
Robert Sánchez, Benoit Badiashile, Thiago Silva, Marc Cucurella, Reece James, Conor Gallagher (Mykhailo Mudryk), Enzo Fernández, Lesley Ugochukwu (Moisés Caicedo), Nicolas Jackson (Armando Broja), Raheem Sterling (Noni Madueke), Cole Palmer (Levi Colwill).
Subs: Ian Maatsen, Alex Matos, Axel Disasi, Djordje Petrovic.
MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN
13’ Goal! Newcastle United 1, Chelsea 0. Alexander Isak (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Lewis Miley with a through ball.
22’ Kieran Trippier (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
41’ Lesley Ugochukwu (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
45’+3’ Joelinton (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
46’ Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
55’ Reece James (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card.
59’ Raheem Sterling (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card.
60’ Goal! Newcastle United 2, Chelsea 1. Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Anthony Gordon with a cross following a set piece situation.
61’ Goal! Newcastle United 3, Chelsea 1. Joelinton (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
69’ Substitution, Chelsea. Mykhailo Mudryk replaces Conor Gallagher.
69’ Substitution, Chelsea. Armando Broja replaces Nicolas Jackson.
69’ Substitution, Chelsea. Moisés Caicedo replaces Lesley Ugochukwu.
73’ Second yellow card to Reece James (Chelsea) for a bad foul.
75’ Substitution, Chelsea. Levi Colwill replaces Cole Palmer.
77’ Marc Cucurella (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card.
81’ Levi Colwill (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
81’ Substitution, Newcastle United. Matt Ritchie replaces Alexander Isak.
83’ Goal! Newcastle United 4, Chelsea 1. Anthony Gordon (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Miguel Almirón with a through ball.
86’ Substitution, Newcastle United. Paul Dummett replaces Jamaal Lascelles.
87’ Substitution, Newcastle United. Alex Murphy replaces Miguel Almirón.
87’ Substitution, Chelsea. Noni Madueke replaces Raheem Sterling.
Chelsea are closer to Luton Town than they are to the UCL spots. Proper rebuild.
Who cares, they won the transfer window and FFP
Take me off this ride
*slaps hands* Poch is at the wheel!
10 more years! Chelsea is back baby!
At the end of the day, Newcastle showed more fight and intensity despite 3 games a week and an injury crisis than we did. Their distinct gameplan was to attack our left back, to play long balls over the top. It was also to disrupt our shape and solidity and it worked in part due to the extreme lack of discipline shown by our players. We made it far too easy for them. That was one of the worst 2nd halves I can remember us playing and we were lucky to only have one player sent off. So much stupidity on our part everywhere you looked.
Btw, our former Academy POTY right back playing extremely well out of position at LB whilst our £64 million LB had another shameful performance was especially noticeable and depressing.
Thank you for Tino, He is a gift at the price and hopefully can be Trippiers replacement and world class for a decade.
You forgot Chelsea are the real winners of that deal since its pure profit for FFP purposes, which is all that matters Ive heard
Same with Lewis Hall, him and Tino could genuinely be our starting full backs for a decade as well as Englands, think they’ll look back on those two deals with regret but if they kept them they wouldn’t have been able to hoard foreign talent for Clearlake
As an avid academy watcher over the years, these are two of the most talented players I have seen to come from Cobham and I was genuinely outraged that we let them both go. Never seen two more obvious successes in my life.
They both won academy player of the year while in Cobham as well no? Strange you would offload them but from a FFP perspective it does make some sense
They did, the sale of Tino makes no sense in terms of FFP because we lost him for very little (and before this ownership was in place). Lewis was better in terms of finances, but still not good at all considering he was outperforming both of our left backs as a teenager playing in his second position.
To be fair, I don’t think they wanted to sell Hall this summer. He’d even extended this contract. But he’s a boyhood Newcastle fan and seems like he pushed for the move, and fair play to Chelsea for not standing in his way.
What’s funny though is that all four goals started from your right flank, not the left
Total capitulation from Chelsea you love to see it
Chels-y
3 point lane
I don’t understand how Todd boehly was smart enough to make his money in other areas but decided to be a degenerate gambler when it comes to football lol
The story of insanely rich people spending lots of money very badly on football is a tale as old as time.
Success has a way of causing people to fall prey to a myth of their self-greatness.
Silver spoon. Plus he seems to be one of those Americans who assumes that the only reason people do things differently elsewhere is because they’re stupid.
If you can fluke your way in to wealth once it’s pretty easy to make a lot more. Also if he was smart to be successful in the first place, maybe the success robbed his brain by blowing up his ego and he’s a different person now
He didn’t fluke his way
Glorious
I wonder if the brexit mystic Paul Merson saw this one coming.
A win, 2 draws, and a loss is still a lot better than I expected when vs Arsenal, Spurs, City, and Newcastle. In fact since the start of the season I’d say this is the first game where the opposition was 100% the better side. We looked disorganized, lacking ideas, could be the international break. First half was a lot better. This is the type of game where Chilwell would have shined, Cucurella is so bad at attacking the left side is barely used. I’ve noticed Reece’s mental isn’t really the best either, feels like he gets a pointless yellow every 2 games. A lot to learn from this game and hopefully Poch scalds the players for a lot of the errors today, looked amateur at points. If Newcastle play like this every week they’ll finish top 3, really impressed by them in spite of the injuries
I was in the Leazes end and first time I’ve seen Cucurella in the flesh since I saw him play against us for Brighton a couple of years back where he looked decent.
He was shocking today. Everything came through our right hand side. Howe seemed to have positioned Miley between LB and CB and it threw Cucurella. He wasn’t sure where to cover.
Mate I’m honestly still in disbelief of the transfer. I’ll never get over it, not for a second was I convinced. 72m on a leftback after buying Chilwell for 50m, and with 2 promising left backs in Maatsen and Hall coming up. 72m is most teams best fucking player and we spent it on Cucurella, who we didn’t even need. Any other position bar right back would have been better and made more sense. His best game for us unironically was probably against Brighton this season in the cup, he played right back and Brighton was resting some players I believe. I mean theres a decent player there, for 20-30m.
Hows Lewis Hall been? I saw all his minutes for Chelsea and I don’t mean to fit into the overhyping stereotype but he was really one of our top players when played, including having 3 great games against Manchester City. He really deserved some assists in those games too, I would have really liked to see him stay and even play in midfield if needed, I think he has the skill set and physicality for it.
Hall is still finding his feet for us. Had 2 or 3 starts. Looked between ok and very good without being exceptional. Clear he’s got the quality to go all the way to the top though.
We lost Lewis Hall for this guy too, all the more infuriating
He’s been crap every time he played against us for Chelsea. I just hope somebody’s explained to him what “shit Coloccini” means!
I’ll give Reece a chance since he’s been injured for so long but I agree with your other points. Our defence was clearly lacking today and I think the two consecutive goals in the second half killed off their confidence
Clearly Bruno and Joelinton play better under Mister Bonesaw than Leftie Lula
#BringBackJair
If I were Chelsea, I would’ve simply played more pragmatically and defensively the second they went down to 10 men to avoid losing 4-1.
Braindead take. We were 3-1 down before the red and had nothing to lose. You guys were 1-1 and could have come out the game with at least a point considering we are dogshit against low blocks and susceptible to counters but hey, anything to defend your boss I guess.
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I mean fuck Chelsea but yours and theirs are completely different scenarios.
God, I forgot jokes aren’t allowed on this sub.
But since you brought it up, the situations were different. Chelsea had already capitulated before the sending off, where Spurs almost took something from the game down to 9.
Poch tried to copy the revolutionary Ange and ended up with the sane result.
Both frauds in my book
“sane result”
what’s that?
The result was a sane one
Poch was suspended and not managing today, but yea sure his fault…
He was, tho. You can still manage from the stands
He was still managing, just not on the touchline. Don’t make excuses for our shit performance.
4 goals. I thought Newcastle didn’t play football?
The pre-match Chelsea thread was something to behold. Saw comments like “they’re gonna sit back and defend deep against us”, as if they’ve never watched Newcastle play at home ever lol.
Yeah they lost 4-1 but did they play a passionate high line while down to 10 men?
9 men*
No
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Andy Jacobs will be in fine form on Monday’s H&J xD