Seagulls and Magpies – Brighton vs Newcastle United FA Cup match banter!
Posted on January 28th, 2012 | 98 Comments |
However I shall reftain from indulging in the practically limitless opportunities for cheap, tacky innuendo about Poyet’s men getting Newcastle United “round the back” and giving them a good pounding and so on… Instead I will just rise above all that, behave myself abd concentrate on telling you that for an in depth look forward to this FA Cup clash, you can do far worse than checking out UTD111’s excellent preview of the game, which has all the team news, pre match gossip and lots of other stuff too. I will also be publishing the official teamsheets for the game below when they become available. If I may borrow a little from the preview mentioned above, here’s what Alan Pardew and Gus Poyet have been saying about the forthcoming game:
Alan Pardew: “For us, it’s a competition we can focus on. We’ve got ourselves in a good position in the league. We’ll be sending a strong team. Brighton are a good team. They play the ball about and move you around. They are good technically, and we will have to be at our best to get the right result.”
Gus Poyet: “It’s a cup game, and you always have a chance, Saying that, in terms of their quality, their performances and the way that they’ve been playing, you would say that Newcastle are favourites. That’s not me trying to put pressure on Newcastle, or trying to play any mind games. That’s just the reality.
“It’s one-off game, and with the atmosphere and the players’ excitement, it’ll be a great game. We will need to be very good and we need to be playing the way we did against Sunderland, because we were very good defensively and going forward. We were decent against Liverpool, and that’s what makes us think that maybe we had a chance. We need to make sure that we are very good on the day.”
The game will be shown live in the UK on ESPN.
Howay the Lads!
Team sheets
Brighton and Hove Albion (4-3-3): Peter Brezovan (G), Gordon Greer, Lewis Dunk, Adam El-Abd, Iñigo Calderón, Liam Bridcutt, Matt Sparrow, Will Buckley, Jake Forster-Caskey, Ashley Barnes, Craig Mackail-Smith.
Subs: Casper Ankergren, Romain Vincelot, Grant Hall, Alan Navarro, Ryan Harley, Will Hoskins, Torbjorn Agdestein.
Newcastle United (4-2-3-1): Tim Krul(G), Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, James Perch, Davide Santon; Danny Guthrie, Yohan Cabaye, Hatem Ben Arfa, Jonas Gutierrez, Leon Best, Shola Ameobi.
Substitutes: Rob Elliot (G), Shane Ferguson, Tamas Kadar, Ryan Taylor, Dan Gosling, Gabriel Obertan, Peter Lovenrkands.
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thanks worky – HWTL – 0-2
but who on earth subscribes to ESPN ?