I'm reasonably happy with that side. Drinkwater will provide more creativity than Bakayoko would. 

Always optimistic when Cesc isn't closed down within 5 seconds

Newcastle are playing even deeper than Swansea, so we will have to be a lot sharper today than we was against them.

Edited December 2, 20178 yr by Scott Harris

Just now, Scott Harris said:

Newcastle are playing even deeper than Swansea, so we will have to be a lot more sharper today than we was against them.

They are pressing high as well though, hopefully all the tracking back will tire them out

Any good streams?

Oh f**k 

Started poorly and we’ve been punished for it. I f**king hate Newcastle.

f**king knew they would scoe first!!!

Awful, awful defending. Not surprising considering how slow we have started.

f**k sake

That has to be one of the luckiest goals of the season.

The curse of Newcastle continues.

We haven’t looked at all

Wake up!!

Christensen should've jumped for it

However much we praise Christensen he deserves some stick for this one. Got outmuscled for the header against Gayle..

Has anyone noticed how poor our tackling has been this season ? Only Kante seem's to go in fully committed.

On 01/12/2017 at 12:25, The Fish said:

Geordie in peace here. 

Couple of things;

First off, re: the tickets, the club didn't take the full allocation (for whatever reason) so the fans bought every ticket that was available. https://www.nufc.co.uk/news/latest-news/chelsea-a-ticket-news-17-18. Seems daft to have a dig at Newcastle's travelling support when we travel in numbers, more often than not this season they've been shifted for the tv cameras, and it's not like they're short away journeys. 

And secondly you should win this one fairly easily. We're not playing well, we're missing our captain and best defender in Lascelles and an alright wide threat in Atsu. Joselu can't score but Benitez doesn't fancy Mitrovic, we look shaky at the back and Shelvey isn't pulling up any trees in the centre. We'll probably switch back from the 442 that saw us lose to Burnley, Bournemouth, Man Utd, and Watford. So we'll likely set up 4-2-3-1 and try and frustrate you, keep you to chances from outside the box. Luckily you've nobody that can score from distance... right?

I'd put money on Chelsea -1, and to keep a clean sheet.

Got the 3,000 full allocation. Don’t know what the post is about.

w**k defending from Alonso. Half hearted waft at the ball.

Handball in the build-up..

Always though Gayle would be a good addition to any big club.

Haven’t started yet. We’ve just woken up in the Matthew Harding as well!

As good as Christensen is, he’s no JT in the air that’s for sure!

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

Has anyone noticed how poor our tackling has been this season ? Only Kante seem's to go in fully committed.

Not surprised Scott all we have to do is breath on someone and we get booked for it

1 minute ago, Blue Exile said:

w**k defending from Alonso. Half hearted waft at the ball.

It's been happening a lot this season, our players keep making nothing tackles. They keep trying to get a little toe on it rather than boot it clear win the tackle firmly.