Last gasp heartbreak for Magpies, whilst Black Cats still without victory: North East football roundup

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Jordan Cronin and Phil Smith summarise Newcastle United's draw with Crystal Palace and Sunderland's loss against Sheffield United. Daniel Wales reports.

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00:00Now just looking back at that Palace game a few days on, I don't think there's any Newcastle

00:07supporters out there who can say Newcastle deserved something from that game. As you've

00:12seen the stats by now, well the lack of stats, Newcastle didn't have a shot at goal in that

00:18game, it was apparently a blocked shot but yeah, comments on social media after, I'm

00:23not sure when people knew that actually when that blocked shot had came. So a really poor

00:29attacking performance by Newcastle United. Of course, the way the goal came about, Anthony

00:35Gordon's cross deflected in by Newcastle United's main summer transfer target, Mark

00:40Gee. And yeah, anyhow, after the game felt, at that point they said they'd done enough

00:45to win the game but up pops Daniel Munoz at the back post in the 94th minute to inflict

00:51it. Newcastle didn't deserve anything so if anything it was Palace that openly got a deserved

00:58equaliser and to be fair probably feel they should have won the game but maybe if you

01:03look at it, it was two poorer sides on the day and yeah, Newcastle need to improve on

01:09that because Palace fighting relegation in the early stages of the season, anyway that's

01:15what it looks like going to be. Newcastle want to go and push and challenge the European

01:20places again. Of course, the Premier League table is very tight this season but they currently

01:26sit in the bottom half, 11th. Having at the start of the week as well, losing to West

01:31Ham on Monday night and then going to Palace, you get maximum points on those two games

01:36and Newcastle would have actually been in the top four at the Premier League. So of

01:41course the Premier League table is very tight this season, there's not many teams showing

01:45consistency but I say for Newcastle and Aspirations that you've got to get back in the European

01:50places, they've got to start showing some consistency and they've really struggled to

01:54do that this season.

02:24So I think again we're in that position where you have to step back from the games before

02:29it and judge the game on its own merits and say that's a performance with a huge amount

02:33of positives for Sunderland. I think what they've again shown that they can match any

02:37team in this division, that's one of the toughest assignments they've had yet and I thought

02:40large parts of their game were excellent. Don't forget again that they were missing

02:43some key players in the likes of Denis Sirk and Romain Mundel. So loads to take from the

02:48game but I think you could sense from both Loredis, Lebris and the players afterwards

02:52that they knew there was a huge opportunity to go buy them. It's a big three points for

02:56Sheffield United.

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