Newcastle v Liverpool – Match banter!
Posted on December 11th, 2010 | 305 Comments |
It’s a welcome return to football after what has been a turbulent week for Newcastle United after the shock sacking of Chris Hughton, and the even more shocking appointment of Alan Pardew.
A lot has been said over the last week, and I’m not too pleased with the contempt that Chris Hughton was seemingly treat with by the Newcastle hierachy, but it’s done now and won’t be reversed. Now is the time for football though, and although I understand that there will be some protests, I hope that they are kept away from the players. We don’t want a repeat of Hull City!
It’s important that Newcastle try and win the game today, or at least get a point. We are about to embark on a tough run of fixtures that includes away trips to Birmingham and Tottenham with a home fixture against Manchester City sandwiched inbetween, so we really need to pick up points when and where we can.
Alan Pardew believes that Liverpool are there for the taking though and will be looking to get at them and assert our own game on them. Talking to The Chronicle, Pardew said this abut the match;
“Newcastle v Liverpool is a great fixture – it’s two teams who will be going out to win the game.”
“My view of the game is that we have to expose their back four. We won’t sit back, we’ll have a go and see what we get.”
“Hopefully we start well and the crowd get behind us and we go on and win the game. But it’s a great game to start.”
For a more detailed look at the team news and injury headaches that are affecting both sides you can cast your eyes over my match preview if you haven’t already done so.
The match will be beamed live around the world on various channels and will be broadcast on ESPN here in the UK. However, if any of you guys and gals know of any decent streams out there and wish to share it then please feel free to post the link in the comments section below.
It’s been a dramatic week for all involved with NUFC thus far, but now we have an opportunity to forget the turbulence and concentrate on a game of football, for 90 minutes anyway!
Howay the lads!
Newcastle: Tim Krul, Danny Simpson, Steven Taylor, Sol Campbell, Jose Enrique, Joey Barton, Kevin Nolan, Cheick Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez, Shola Ameobi, Andy Carroll.
Subs: Steve Harper, James Perch, Alan Smith, Wayne Routledge, Danny Guthrie, Peter Lovenkrands, Nile Ranger.
Liverpool: Pepe Reina, Glen Johnson, Martin Skrtel, Sotiris Kyrgiakos, Paul Konchesky, Dirk Kuyt, Lucas Leiva, Raul Meireles, Maxi Rodriguez, Fernando Torres, David Ngog.
Subs: Brad Jones, Martin Kelly, Fabio Aurelio, Christian Poulsen, Joe Cole, Ryan Babel, Milan Jovanovic.
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Same 11 that beat Wham, Mackems and Arsenal…