The usual suspects embarrassing themselves after Newcastle 1 Bournemouth 4

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·18 de enero de 2025

The usual suspects embarrassing themselves after Newcastle 1 Bournemouth 4

It finished Newcastle 1 Bournemouth 4.

St James’ Park near empty by the time the final whistle went.

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I gave the pubs an unscheduled miss after the match.

I just wasn’t in the mood.

That mood not exactly improved when I have read and heard such embarrassing nonsense from the usual suspects, following this home defeat.

Articles and comments online, including on The Mag.

Amongst the infantile reaction, apparently the team are a disgrace, Eddie Howe should be sacked, players weren’t trying, wrong team selection, wrong tactics, wrong formation and so on.

I am embarrassed on behalf of these people.

I was angry and frustrated ON BEHALF of the players, it just wasn’t their day, no matter how hard they tried.

And they did try, no doubt about that

Anybody who has played football at any level will have had days like this, where things aren’t going well in a match and the harder you try, the worse it gets. The more you try to force it, the more and more it just doesn’t happen.

The Newcastle United fans who are so over the top in the way they are slagging off Eddie Howe and his players, they should be ashamed of themselves.

It is beyond belief.

The people who have given us so many brilliant performances and results, the previous nine games, getting treat like this. By Newcastle United fans???

What happened to we all win together and we all lose together?

Football isn’t an exact science, players aren’t robots.

Does anybody honestly think that Eddie Howe and his players did anything other than everything they could possibly do, to try and win this match?

Bournemouth played really well, from the very start of the game.

Their touch was as good as ours was bad. It happens.

It was like the Bournemouth players were magnetically attracting the ball, whilst at the same time the Newcastle players had what appeared to be a force field around them that repelled the ball. The number of times passes were mis-controlled, the ball bouncing off our players and gifting possession, often in dangerous places. Newcastle players caught in possession, trying passes that were intercepted when they should have carried the ball, carrying the ball and running into trouble when should have passed.

Thing is as well, a lot of this was due to the attacking nature of the Iraola tactics, coming to St James’ Park and instead of sitting back, Bournemouth attacking in numbers time after time, also getting numbers high up the pitch and pressing United in dangerous places, which is of course how that killer second Cherries goal just before half-time happened. Bruno caught in possession but only because Bournemouth weren’t sitting back, their enterprise was rewarded.

Bournemouth came to Tyneside and won this match, far more than we lost it.

I also think certain Newcastle United fans get far too carried away by the fact two goals were scored deep in added time,, as Eddie Howe and his team desperately tried to force a late equaliser. Nobody wants to get beat 4-1 at home but in reality, at least to me, it doesn’t really matter much whether it was 2-1 or 4-1 to Bournemouth.

What matters to me is that Eddie Howe and his players won the previous nine matches AND that they now bounce back from today’s defeat, go down to Southampton next weekend and get another winning run started.

The over the top slagging off of Eddie Howe and the team is shameful.

If you aren’t prepared to cut some slack for your manager and players when losing a match after winning the previous nine, when will you do so?

Not sure what happens in these people’s heads but in mine, I want to show my support to Eddie Howe and his Newcastle players. I feel like putting my arm round them, not kicking them when they are down.

The way these Newcastle fans go on, you would think it was League Two Bromley and not top six of the Premier League Bournemouth, who had defeated Newcastle today. A Bournemouth side who are now eleven matches unbeaten.

You have to laugh when these lot go on about ‘teams like Bournemouth’, totally ignoring the reality. You aren’t playing the history of the club, the name of the club, you are playing against the here and now manager and players.

I think Andoni Iraola is a really good manager and they have some excellent players. Newcastle United and pretty much every other club, would love to sign Semenyo, for example.

You aren’t playing against the size of their fanbase.

You are facing a club and team who have a strong foothold in the Premier League, who have rich and ambitious owners, who spend significant amounts of money on players.

Whilst Newcastle United were having to sell a couple of their most promising young players in the summer and only able to afford to bring in a few squad players, Bournemouth were buying a £40m striker, other big fees on some really good players, buying players from clubs such as Barcelona and Juventus, bringing in on loan a goalkeeper who set a £71m world transfer record for a keeper, a transfer fee more than any player NUFC have signed in their entire history.

Is it really so difficult to just accept that Bournemouth played really well and Newcastle United had an off day, a very rare off day after such a brilliant run of results and performances?

We’ll support you ever more.

Or is that, we’ll support you ever more, only when you win?

Newcastle 1 Bournemouth 4 – Saturday 18 January 2025 12.30pm

Goals:

Newcastle United:

Bruno 25

Bournemouth:

Kluivert 6, 44, 90+2 Kerkez 90+6

Possession was Newcastle 55% Bournemouth 45%

Total shots were Newcastle 13 Bournemouth 19

Shots on target were Newcastle 5 Bournemouth 10

Corners were Newcastle 7 Bournemouth 6