Scunthorpe v Newcastle United League Cup match banter!
Posted on August 25th, 2011 | 138 Comments |
Hello, good evening and Welcome. Newcastle United are in action in the League Cup tonight away to Scunthorpe.
For a more in depth analysis, take a look at Jimbob’s excellent match preview but let’s catch up with what Alan ‘The Quiet Man’ Pardew has been saying ahead of tonight’s game.
First up, after losing to Stevenage in the FA Cup last year, he’s keen to avoid another cup defeat at the hands of the underdogs:
“It’s a tough place – the crowd at Scunthorpe will be buoyant. It’ll be what I would call a proper English game of football, and we can’t get caught out by the passion of the opposition.
“We need to match that, which was something we didn’t do at Stevenage.
“I was a new manager, and not particularly familiar with the squad, and I was disappointed that day. I don’t want to be disappointed on Thursday night.“
Pardew is keen to build on our decent results against Arsenal and the Mackems, but also sees this an opportunity to try out a few players who have been unused so far:
“I’m caught between a couple of things. Obviously I want to keep the momentum we’ve gained.
“I want to keep a clean sheet, if we can. But I need to see some of the ‘squad’ players, but they’re not squad players – they’re potential first-team players.
“Some of them haven’t had an opportunity, and some could be involved on Sunday if we get an injury and someone needs to play.
“It is obviously a game where we will look to make sure the squad is in good shape too, because we have had almost 14-man games this season.
“There’s one or two who I definitely need to rest, and there are one or two who I need to give games to because I want to keep them up to speed.
“There’s not a lot of difference in this squad between the top and bottom of it, and everybody plays their part.”
Having been ‘giant-killed’ a few times ourselves, it’s probably wise not to be over-confident, even if it is against a League 1 side without a win to their name yet this season. On paper we should be able to dominate this game from the off but, alas, football is played on grass rather than paper and I don’t think we’ll have things all our own way.
Still, I’ll go for a win to us and suggest a 0-2 scoreline.
Team News
Scunthorpe United: Lilis, Nolan, Nelson, Canavan, Wright, Togwell, Ryan, Norwood, Dagnell, Grant, Barcham.
Subs: Slocombe, Palmer, Thompson, Duffy, Collins, Godden, Thewlis.
Newcastle United: Krul, Coloccini, Simpson, Williamson, Raylor, Cabaye, Gosling, Marveaux, Lovenkrands, Ba, Best.
Subs: Soderberg, Saylor, Abeid, Smith, Vuckic, Ferguson, Sammyobi.
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