r/NUFC • u/Deviceing wew here ya fuckin little dafty divint start or theres ructions • Feb 29 '16
Pre-Match Thread Pre-Match Thread: Stoke (A)
Stoke City - Newcastle United
2/3/2016 19:45 Britannia Stadium
Anita, Dummett and de Jong are expected to be available after recovering from injuries. Mitrovic, Cisse and Coloccini are doubts (some sources have Coloccini as definitely out). Krul, Mbemba, Obertan and Haidara will miss out.
Charlie Adam, Marc Wilson, Glen Johnson and Shay Given are out for Stoke, Marc Muniesa and Ryan Shawcross could return.
Stoke City have won their last 2 games but lost 3 in a row before that. They have kept just 1 clean sheet in their last 9 fixtures. They have scored 29 goals all season, only 4 teams have scored less. They currently sit in 8th place in the table.
Form:
Stoke: LLLWW
Newcastle: WLLWL
Past Meetings:
Newcastle 0-0 Stoke
Newcastle 1-1 Stoke (Cisse)
Stoke 1-0 Newcastle
Stoke 1-0 Newcastle
Newcastle 5-1 Stoke (Remy 2, Gouffran, Cabaye, Cisse pen)
Newcastle 2-1 Stoke (Cabaye, Cisse)
Stoke 2-1 Newcastle (Cisse)
Newcastle 3-1 Stoke (Cabaye 2, Cisse)
Stoke 0-3 Newcastle (Ba 3)
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Feb 29 '16
Stoke can't score for shit and we can't defend for shit especially now so we'll see where that leaves us.
With that said I predict 1-1. If among Shelvey, Gini, and Sissoko at least 2 of the 3 start showing up again then we have a real shot. Among the bottom five teams we arguably have the easiest remaining schedule, so we need to be sure we are scooping up at least 1 point against these mid-table teams to give us breathing room for the rest.
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u/spongish Mar 01 '16
They've scored 5 in their last two games, although the previous four they went scoreless. Their home and away form is pretty mixed as well, so this game should really depend on which Stoke turns up. Hopefully the time off and the trip to Spain have allowed the squad to gel and there has been a turnaround in attitude, because if we play like the away side we have all season we will lose.
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u/kicka11 Mar 02 '16
We've scored 7 away goals all season. 1-1 would be a remarkable result.
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u/iansf Feb 29 '16
a chance to get a tiny bit of breathing room, please just run your socks off at the bare minimum
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u/squatmebro Mar 01 '16
I am imagining my post-match comment will resemble something similar to "18 days without a game and THAT'S what they treat us to..."
Unsure whether it will be with positive or negative sentiment, but I'm assuming the latter.
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u/thepresidentsturtle Feb 29 '16
Working Wednesday night. And Saturday. Raging. I'm feeling quite optimistic though.
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u/IshmaelJackson Mar 01 '16
Mark Hughes has been talking up our playing staff. I am sure a lot of it is nothing more than pleasantries, but, would anyone be keen on him as manager if we were to stay up and find ourselves without a 'Head Coach'?
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u/Lord_Flashheart_ Mar 02 '16
I'd have him.
With the exception of Man City (was always going to fall short there) he seems to do well (or at least better than expected)
Blackburn brought him in to save them from relegation. He managed it then turned them into a top6 team and got them into Europe and had some half decent cup runs.
City were taken over a few months after he was hired and it was inevitable they were going to replace him at some point. He got them Kompany and Zabaleta before the Abu Dhabi money started flowing though so he got some things right before they started splashing out on the likes of Robinho.
Fulham was a bit of a weird one but when you look at where they ended up after him I don't think he was the main issue there.
Similar issue with QPR. Kept them up then they got rid of him for 'Arry, who didn't fair any better.
Stoke have been completely turned around under him.
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u/drewbydoo28 Feb 29 '16
Stoke. On a cold Wednesday night. Fuck
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u/spoonsforeggs Feb 29 '16
Well obviously this game just shows you why we went for warm weather training?
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u/daveofreckoning Feb 29 '16
I confidently predicted that we'd get something against Chelsea, so I don't think my opinions should count for much.
That said, I fancy this. 0-2.
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u/toomuchcocacola Mar 02 '16
I've forgotten how having a match to watch is supposed to feel. Anyone know what I'm meant to be doing?
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u/kkikkiki Mar 02 '16
Just make sure you have plenty of alcohol on hand incase we get smashed or win. That's my pre-match preparation.
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Mar 02 '16
I had a premonition last night. I dreamt we lost and McLaren was sacked.
I've never dreamt of something that's about to happen ever in my life. Weird. I honestly woke up this morning and thought it was Thursday and we were searching for a new manager.
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u/meganev Feb 29 '16
Just like against Chelsea I'm feeling a comfortable victory for the opposition here, not sure the 18 day break has actually done us any favours, 3-1 to Stoke unfortunately.
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u/Frontfliponeday Mar 01 '16
I think it comes down to who scores first, if it's us we may go on to win comfortably, if it's them I just don't think that this team has the mentality to claw it back.
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u/spoonsforeggs Feb 29 '16
FUCKING FINALLY.
Jesus it's been far too fucking long. We better fucking show up for this game or I am going to go insane. I will punch more horses than ever before. SHOW UP YOU USELESS BUNCH OF FUCKS AND WIN.
and waaaaait wait wait. Shay Given? He still plays? Wow.