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Man City recap and Newcastle United vs Nottingham Forest thoughts
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17/02/2025
How big a game is Newcastle vs Nottingham Forest this weekend?
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00:00
Hello everybody, how's it going? I'm here to give you another Newcastle United daily update.
00:05
What better way to start than recapping that terrible, terrible performance of that day down in Manchester City.
00:12
There was a lot of optimism going into the game.
00:15
And you've got to think, just one look at the history book sort of didn't really explain why that was the case.
00:22
Newcastle haven't won away from home at Manchester City in the Premier League game since September 2000.
00:29
They haven't won a league game at Man City Stadium at all, obviously.
00:34
Main Road got knocked down in the early 2000s.
00:38
The only victory there came in the Cowboy Cup in 2014.
00:41
There's been 5-0 heidens, 6-1 heidens, multiple 4-0 heidens.
00:46
And supporters saw another one the other day.
00:49
But regardless of the history books, living in the present, there's no excuse for that performance from Newcastle the other day.
00:57
I think a lot of the optimism came, obviously you've got the Cowboy Cup final coming.
01:03
There's a lot of positivity around Newcastle at the minute.
01:06
And obviously looking at Man City, that game being sandwiched in between two huge Champions League games for them.
01:13
And they've not been at their glistening heights like they normally would be this season.
01:18
I think Newcastle fans thought, you know what it is, they could get something today, they could pull off a shock.
01:24
Even the bookmaker, as we looked at the odds before the game, Newcastle love.
01:28
I don't think I've ever seen Newcastle be as short a price as they were to go down there.
01:33
And ultimately it was a case of history repeating itself.
01:36
Newcastle, they may as well have shook hands before the game and said, right lads, you can have the three points now.
01:42
And just not bother even playing the match because Newcastle really were that poor.
01:46
A little personal anecdote, I was away, I was actually away on a visit to Amsterdam with the lads.
01:52
So we were watching it in the bar and I wasn't in reporter mode, I was in supporter mode.
01:57
All I had were black and white tops on, ready for the Newcastle game.
02:00
Finally found a little sports bar that would be able to put the game on and actually have the volume on.
02:05
And within half an hour we were starting to regret asking to put it on.
02:11
The match almost sort of became secondary in the second half to obviously having a few players in Amsterdam, it was that bad.
02:17
Newcastle, they couldn't string a couple of passes together.
02:21
I know they were playing Manchester City and everything, but I think it was a little bit of a reality check that
02:27
if Newcastle don't get the rock together pretty quickly,
02:33
they could sort of blow all this sort of optimism that they gained over December and January.
02:39
I think that nine game winning run now sort of looks a distant memory.
02:46
And you look at the pictures coming up, you've got to question, is this Forest game on Sunday, is it a must win?
02:54
Now Newcastle have already beaten Forest twice this season away from home.
02:58
Once on penalties in the Cowboy Cup and then once in the league 3-1.
03:03
But you've got to think of St James' Park.
03:07
Newcastle haven't been at the rock solid best that they normally would be at home.
03:12
They've obviously lost to teams that should be beaten.
03:15
Not for a lot of surprise packages in the Premier League this season.
03:19
After Forest you've got Liverpool in midweek and you know you're starting to think, is this a must win?
03:25
You look at the table and they're now a couple of points out of the top four positions.
03:29
I think Newcastle need a good result just to bring that feel-good factor back.
03:34
There's a lot of people, quite rightly so, to be fair, wondering whether Newcastle players' minds are elsewhere.
03:42
Eddie Howe answered that question after the game.
03:44
He said, I hope not, because they've still got a lot of games to go before the Cowboy Cup final.
03:50
But we saw it two years ago, we saw Newcastle players sort of switch off for that month or so.
03:55
I think they won one game in seven leading up to the Cowboy Cup final.
03:59
To say that happened again would be a real shame.
04:02
So yeah, I think they need to go to St James' Park on Sunday and they need to put on a good performance against a tough team.
04:10
Against a team that, you know, a couple of years ago Chris Wood got a hat-trick and that was the start of his revival, if you like.
04:16
So yeah, let us know how you're feeling in the comments below.
04:18
Where would you rank that Nottingham Forest game this weekend on the must-win scale?
04:23
Because the last thing Newcastle need, you know, they've got Liverpool in the midweek after that.
04:28
Then they've got Brighton in the Cup, they're looking to go strong in two Cup competitions this season.
04:33
Then they've got West Ham away and Liverpool in the Cup final.
04:36
The last thing any Newcastle fan wants ahead of that Cowboy Cup final is to go down with a team where the confidence has shot to bits.
04:44
And you've got to think, back-to-back defeats in the Premier League at St James' Park, Bournemouth and Fulham, this is a tough game.
04:51
You know, Nottingham Forest sitting in the Champions League places, this is a hard game for Newcastle.
04:56
I personally think it's a must-win, I think it's one that they've got to go there, home soil, crowd behind them.
05:03
They need to put in a good showing because results in the Premier League lately just haven't been good enough.
05:08
Especially when you consider where they were a month or so ago and they were flying high.
05:14
Isak was banging in the goals and they've obviously got a Cup final on the corner.
05:18
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below everyone and I'll see you again later this week.
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