Manchester City 4-0 Newcastle United - Jordan Cronin & Liam Kennedy - video Dailymotion

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Jordan and Liam reflect on Newcastle United's 4-0 defeat against Manchester City.

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00:00Manchester City 4 Newcastle United 0 Yard, Leady Yard Stadium.

00:05Tonight, Liam, a non-contest. Would you agree with that?

00:10Overall thoughts?

00:11Yeah, I think so much can change about Newcastle United Football Club

00:14and every aspect that it operates.

00:17And some things just stay the same.

00:19They came to the Etihad today with altered expectations,

00:23probably among a lot in the fan base.

00:25Although, we drove down, you knew what I was saying,

00:28they did fancy they would get beat here today.

00:31Altered expectations, but the same results.

00:34Newcastle United came here, did not lay a glove on Manchester City,

00:39didn't get close to them, created one opportunity in 90 minutes.

00:43Now, that really isn't good enough.

00:45It really wasn't good enough today.

00:47But look, it's nothing new there.

00:50They come to this place and don't really ever challenge.

00:53It was, as you said, a non-contest.

00:56There'll be a lot of debate among the fan base.

00:58Did Eddie Howe get his team wrong?

01:00Was it just individual errors in a performance,

01:03not befitting of the team?

01:05I would argue that there are some trends in this team.

01:07I think in the calendar year, I think apart from the two amazing,

01:12and they were amazing, cup performances against Arsenal,

01:15I don't think this team is performing that well.

01:18Three defeats in four in the Premier League go to prove that.

01:21However, what I would say about the day is,

01:24Newcastle couldn't get the ball off Man City for the first 15 minutes,

01:28but they had them at arm's length.

01:30It was a little bit on edge,

01:32but I didn't really feel like they were absolutely knocking on the door.

01:36It's hard to criticise the approach.

01:40It's hard to also criticise when I looked at the team and the set-up,

01:43and I didn't really have too many complaints about it.

01:46However, by hindsight, Kieran Trippier as a third centre-half did not work.

01:49And when Kieran Trippier makes a mistake,

01:51which a schoolboy in some ways makes that mistake,

01:54to allow Manchester City in the game,

01:56and the whole context of everything that was going on changed,

01:59that system then becomes a problem.

02:01The set-up and approach then becomes a problem.

02:04And it all stemmed from an individual.

02:06Look, I'm not going to be the one to call out Kieran Trippier

02:08or single him out in any way.

02:10He made a mistake, he'll hold his hands up and say that, he's a big boy.

02:12Lewis Hall had a bad performance.

02:15That was a really poor, poor day for the lad,

02:18who's been excellent this season, but that was really poor.

02:21Fabian Scheer isn't the same player.

02:23Hasn't played well for quite some time, in my opinion.

02:25I thought Dan Byrne was fighting it,

02:27a lone cause in Newcastle,

02:29back four or five, depending on whether he had the ball or not.

02:32The midfield was ghost-like in appearance.

02:35I would probably say that was Sandro Tannoli's worst performance of the season.

02:39Tannoli's worst performance.

02:40Joel Willock may as well not have been playing at times in that game.

02:43But that happens, and that happens,

02:45especially in Newcastle Cup and places like this,

02:47that you need a compact midfield.

02:49And it actually spoke volumes, the fact that when Lewis Miley came on at half-time,

02:52albeit Newcastle were 3-0 down, Man City took the foot off the gas,

02:55but they looked a lot more, sort of,

02:57they had a better shape about them when Lewis Miley came on.

02:59They had a good shape, and they were better because they went back,

03:01they were kind of 4-3-3 for much of that second half.

03:04But really, was it not because Manchester City just took that foot off the pedal?

03:08Absolutely, yeah.

03:09I kind of felt that it was, and Miley got more opportunity.

03:12I didn't think it was Bruno's best day, he's probably had worse days,

03:15we've discussed that, but for Tannoli,

03:17it was a really disappointing performance in the front three.

03:19I thought Anthony Gordon, was he fit, was he not fit, who really knows?

03:22But I thought he was very wasteful.

03:24There was a couple of opportunities in that first half,

03:26at nil-nil.

03:27You had a great one to set, Alexander.

03:29One-nil down, that was one-all if you put Zizak in.

03:32And just didn't, he was just wasteful with the ball.

03:35You can't come to places like this and have too many of Newcastle United's players

03:38not turn up, and there was too many of them out there that didn't turn up.

03:41So for me, whether the manager got it right, got it wrong,

03:44whether the approach is there, whether it's not,

03:46whether it's a mentality thing, whatever,

03:48if you make individual errors like they did today,

03:51you will not get a result at most teams in the Premier League,

03:53never mind a place like this.

03:55And I think there's a little bit of complacency among people,

03:58I've seen a lot on social media.

04:00Right enough, look, it was probably the most fallible Manchester City

04:03that we've seen Newcastle United come to in many a year.

04:07However, at the start of the season, they were classed by many still

04:10as the team, the best team in world football.

04:13They've had a bad few months, they're still a bloody good team.

04:16And I think that could be massively overlooked.

04:18They can do that to any team.

04:19But I think the frustration is that Newcastle, from their point of view,

04:22didn't compete.

04:23Nope.

04:24But I think that's the big frustration from the fans' point of view is,

04:27look, Man City are still a top-class side,

04:29but you're at least expecting the Premier League to come and have a go.

04:31And every time they come here, they never have a go.

04:33Never have a go.

04:34I remember coming here at the start of last season when there was a lot of optimism,

04:36they beat Aston Villa on the opening day of the season.

04:38This is a chance to really get at Manchester City,

04:40and every time they come here, they stink their face out.

04:42In terms of attacking performance and defensively, as you mentioned,

04:45they had lots of errors.

04:46You could literally go over the last, I don't know,

04:48just off the top of my head, four or five games,

04:50they've created nothing.

04:52Nothing in any of those games.

04:54I think the best chance I can think of Newcastle creating in the last few years

04:57was Chris Wood missing a setter.

04:59All those years ago, was that a 5-0 loss?

05:01Yes.

05:02Chris Wood missing a setter, that was all I could think.

05:04You wouldn't miss it now, would you, the way he's playing?

05:06Not that I would have him back.

05:07But anyway, we'll digress.

05:09Look, I think it's one game.

05:10I don't think this makes Newcastle the worst team in the world.

05:13I don't think it suddenly means, because I've seen a lot of social media action,

05:16they're never going to get a result in a cup final.

05:19It doesn't necessarily mean that they were ever that good anyway.

05:22I think they're kind of all where they probably have been,

05:25and I think they do need a result now.

05:27I think you go to a Nottingham Forest game in eight days' time,

05:30you need a result.

05:31I think to not get a result in that game would start to show some trends,

05:36and the trends would be downward rather than upward,

05:39which would be concerning, going into arguably the biggest month

05:42this club has seen in a long time.

05:45Yes, I mean, they've lost a bit of ground today by losing here.

05:48I think that's probably overlooked, because it is Manchester City,

05:50but heading into the game, they'll level on points to each other.

05:53Obviously, Manchester City will open at advantage in that game next week.

05:55Nottingham Forest, if you lose that, you potentially,

05:57and I know there's a lot of games left,

05:59you're looking and thinking,

06:00actually, are we in a Champions League qualification race?

06:03Because two massive games, they've let one slip.

06:06I think they've got to go and get a result now next week

06:08after dropping points here today.

06:10Right.

06:11So, that was the analysis.

06:13We have got a little announcement, if you haven't seen it already,

06:16and you've managed to stay as long in this video

06:18and listened to our waffling at the Etihad,

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06:39There's lots of bits you'll see that we've put in from today,

06:42and it's only going to get more bigger and better as we move forward.

06:45I've got reviews from Charlie Bennett, who's not here today,

06:47Jordan, and myself, all the way throughout the season

06:50in the Casting Area, home and away.

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