Newcastle No2 Tindall admits defensive improvement needed | OneFootball

Newcastle United assistant manager Jason Tindall says tightening up defensively is the focus ahead of facing Arsenal today.

Newcastle remain without a win this season and have conceded 27 times – a stat matched only by Norwich City, who they play on Tuesday.

“We work on different aspects of our game on the training ground. What we don't want to do is prioritise defending and fully focus on that and then lose sight of our attacking play," Tindall said.

“We know we have to be better as a team defensively – we know that – but when we arrived here we knew we also had to be better from an attacking perspective as a team.

"It's all about getting that balance right, about doing the work on the training ground. Some things are going to take a little bit longer than others. There's no short-term fix in football but what you can do is work extremely hard every single day to try and become the best you can be."