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Date: Saturday 1st November 2014, 12.45pm.
Live on BT Sport
Venue: St. James' Park
Conditions: most efficacious!
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Half time: Magpies
0 Reds 0
73 mins Moussa Sissoko played a one-two with
Paul Dummett before making his way
into the Gallowgate box. His attempted pass to Cabella was intercepted by
Alberto Moreno, but when he failed to clear, fellow Spaniard Ayoze Perez
was onto it in a flash
to crack it past Mignolet. 1-0
Full
time: Magpies 1
Reds 0

The
Resurrection Mag
Alan Pardew:
"It is Halloween!
Bobby Robson had some dark days here, don't worry about that. If you are
Newcastle manager, it is not all gin and tonics and aperitifs. There will be
rough days.
"I always knew, and I kept saying it,
that we have good spirit and good talent. I am not saying I saw the wins
coming, but I knew there was talent.
"Our fans are brilliant - It will be
fantastic in the town tonight - I might even go in myself, the first time for
a while. That is what this city is about. It
breathes and loves football.
"When it does not go well, they let you know, and
when it is going well, they let you know - you take the good with the bad. We have had a long four years. We have had some success and some of that
has got forgotten, but I have always enjoyed it here.
"I love the city and I enjoy the job. I would like to think I am coming
out of this a better manager. It has been interesting and educational. It
tests you, this football club, on a number of levels.
"He (Ayoze Perez) has a knack. He has a lot to learn about the English
Premier League but you know that if something falls for him he will score.
"You sometimes get a player who can do it in training but not on a
matchday, but he has had a fabulous week. Two awards in Spanish football and a
great week here.
"The only sour note of the day was Obertan’s injury. He has been a big
part of the success in these last few weeks, and it is a bad one. We are all sad for Gabby, and we
just hope it is not too bad. But he has done something to his thigh muscle.
"It was a great day for us. Liverpool
are always a big target for this club and we have had some big games against
them. This was not an enthralling
encounter, but it was interesting.
"Brendan (Rodgers) surprised me with his
formation and that unsettled us as first. We struggled to have a foothold, but
we have such pace in the team and we can defend deep. The back four were
terrific.”
Brendan Rodgers (who was once youth
team coach under Pardew at Reading):
"I didn't think we deserved to lose the game, but we didn't do enough to
win it. We had enough of the ball, we had good movement in front of the
ball, we just lacked maybe that wee bit of creativity and invention in the
final third of the field.
"Anything we had to deal with until the goal, we dealt well with
defensively, there were no real issues. But we made a mistake and the
mistake, unfortunately, has cost us the game and that's the biggest
disappointment of it all.
"We have worked very hard for a couple of years to get to this level and
playing against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu says we've been doing okay. We are in a transitional phase and have to do better. It's a wonderful
game for us. It is a big week against the best in the world at the moment.
We will go into the game hoping to get something out of it."
About bad challenges:
"The only one I have seen was Sissoko's challenge on Joe Allen where he
should have been sent off, if you watch that again. That was the only challenge I thought that probably looked not as bad at
the time, but when you see it again, it was a bad challenge."
United are now unbeaten in five and on a winning run of four (in
all competitions).
Midfielder
Mehdi Abeid made his Premier League
bow, becoming the 193rd player we've used in that competition to date
and the eighth PL debutant this season.
The Magpies won their first match against Liverpool in five attempts,
since the hilarious 2-0 home victory of April 2012, when King Kenny grimaced,
Andy Carroll and Craig Bellamy were the butt of numerous chants and Jose Enrique
went between the posts. Krul and Cisse started both games.
Reds @ SJP - Premier League era:
2014/15: Won 1-0 Perez
2013/14: Drew 2-2 Cabaye, Dummett
2012/13: Lost 0-6
2011/12: Won 2-0 Cisse 2
2010/11: Won 3-1 Nolan, Barton, Carroll
2008/09: Lost 1-5 Edgar
2007/08: Lost 0-3
2006/07: Won 2-1 Martins, Solano (pen)
2005/06: Lost 1-3 Ameobi
2004/05: Won 1-0 Robert
2003/04: Drew 1-1 Shearer (pen)
2002/03: Won 1-0 Robert
2001/02: Lost 0-2
2000/01: Won 2-1 Solano, Dyer
1999/00: Drew 2-2 Shearer, Ferguson
1998/99: Lost 1-4 Guivarc'h
1997/98: Lost 0-2 (LC)
1997/98: Lost 1-2 Watson
1996/97: Drew 1-1 Shearer
1995/96: Won 2-1 Ferdinand, Watson
1994/95: Drew 1-1 Lee
1993/94: Won 3-0 Cole 3
Full
record against the Reds:
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
SJP |
79 |
32 |
24 |
23 |
116 |
99 |
Anfield |
78 |
11 |
15 |
52 |
79 |
178 |
League |
157 |
43 |
39 |
75 |
195 |
277 |
SJP(FA) |
4 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
1 |
Anf/W |
5 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
13 |
SJP(LC) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
Anf |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Cup |
11 |
5 |
1 |
5 |
10 |
16 |
Tot |
168 |
48 |
40 |
80 |
205 |
293 |
NUFC last six PL seasons after ten games:
2007/08: 17 points, 8th (scored 17, conceded 13)
2008/09: 9 points, 15th (scored 12, conceded 18)
2010/11: 14 points, 7th (scored 19, conceded 14)
2011/12: 22 points, 3rd (scored 15, conceded 7)
2012/13: 14 points, 10th (scored 12, conceded 14)
2013/14: 14 points, 9th (scored 14, conceded 16)
2014/15: 13 points, 12th (scored 11, conceded 15)
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Waffle |

That was the week that was.....brilliant.
Despite getting off the mark with a nervous victory over Leicester City
here last month, the future looked anything but positive with a daunting trio
of fixtures lined up. At the conclusion of an amazing seven days though, The Magpies celebrated
their fourth successive win with a group huddle on the pitch, while cheers and
applause from home fans raised the rafters at St. James' Park.
The turnaround in our fortunes has been nothing less than miraculous and
rightly brought the ground to its feet in appreciation, jeers replaced by
cheers and a much missed, long overdue, full-throated, Geordie roar.
Alan Pardew spoke about treating himself to a tipple in toon post-match, but
for the second game running it was a player who looks barely old enough to
drink that set corks popping from Barrack Road to the Bigg Market.
Ayoze Perez had conjured up an unlikely winner at White Hart Lane and
did it again here, slamming the ball home from our first clear-cut chance of
the afternoon. The win lifted United into the top half of the table and just like the Capital One Cup victory on Wednesday, was secured
with one unfamiliar line-up getting us underway - and another seeing us
through to a successful outcome.
Remy Cabella, Rolando Aarons
and Perez ending up as a front trio after Sammy Ameobi's departure, while
Mehdi Abeid kept his place in midfield for a PL bow. He performed well again alongside the industrious Jack
Colback and Moussa Sissoko, whose overdue return to form has coincided with a
dramatic upturn in team performances and results.
But the visitors also contributed to their own downfall with an incredibly
inept display, epitomised by the sulky Mario Balotelli who
never looked likely to end his barren league run for the scousers and
only just sauntered his way on to the field in time for the second half.
The Reds misfired badly but that takes nothing away from the battling
performance of a Magpies side who kept their third clean sheet in four games and
worked tirelessly in midfield and defence. And once again, the end result was
to leave a more-expensively assembled and hyped outfit empty -handed and jeered
by their own fans. The mournful, mouthful of vinegar expressions worn by
messrs Pochettino, Pellegrini and Rodgers in the last week were worth the
admission fee alone.
Four stirring team performances have turned things around for Pardew and the
manager must also take credit for the substitutions and tactical switches
that have been an integral part of our resurgence. And if good fortune has
also been a factor, it's been a by-product of trying to force a situation and
take the initiative.
This time there were key decisions to be made when Gabriel Obertan
departed on a stretcher and Papiss Cisse failed to emerge for the second half.
The Frenchman suddenly went to ground after chasing a ball down the right wing and
Etihad hero Rolando Aarons replaced him after 27 minutes.
And with Cisse struggling with sore knees, Perez started the second period in
what had become a very youthful and lightweight-looking forward line (neither
Emmanuel Riviere or Adam Armstrong were on the bench).
But once again the changes proved to be perfect for Pardew and Perez came up with the
decisive strike for the second game in succession following another
marauding run from Sissoko with 17 minutes remaining.
There had been very little from either side to excite the crowd before
the goal, both teams looking slightly lethargic, a little cautious and creating
little. United were restricted to a couple of free-kicks in promising positions but
efforts from Abeid and Cisse caused ex-mackem Mignolet no
danger.
Tim Krul had a quiet afternoon but produced one magnificent one-handed save to
deny Philippe Coutinho although the flag had been raised for offside before
the Brazilian headed Steven Gerrard's cross goalward.
Shortly after, Cabella replaced Ameobi and minutes later United went ahead
thanks to Sissoko's surging run. The Frenchman charged into the box and when his pass
to Cabella was miscued by Alberto
Moreno, Perez lashed the loose ball into the Gallowgate goal past Mignolet.
It should have been 2-0 three minutes later when Perez and Cabella charged
upfield with the latter left with just the 'keeper to beat but Mignolet
stuck out a foot to deny the substitute his first Premier League goal. Thankfully that didn't prove to be a costly miss and the visitors failed to
seriously test Krul, despite bringing on Rickie Lambert.
The three points took United up to ninth in the table before the afternoon
kick-offs and just three points behind fourth-placed West Ham. Other results
had dropped us to twelfth by Sunday night.
Biffa
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