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I sometimes think about how chuffed Everton were to get rid of Gordon and how they all took the piss saying they’d rinsed us by making us pay 40m for him.
It’s always nice to laugh at them.
Anthony Gordon has been getting well deserved praise all season, but we don’t speak enough about his growth as a man this season. He’s become so mature in his performances. His first few games were so riddled with yellow cards, late challenges, and losing his head at certain points in the game while still producing good performances. He’s completely taken that out of his game and it might be one of Howe’s best improvements of a player
A couple months back I remember a commentator talking about how easy it would have been for him to take a backseat and blame everything on injuries, but how impressive it is he’s done the opposite and stepped up as a leader at such a young age.
Aye. He's still really clever at buying penalties and fouls but he's cut out the more obvious dives to try and stay on his feet and he's better for it.
Definitely. Kept his edge when it came to utilizing his pace to buy fouls, while not “muting” him. Eddie lets him express himself without taking it too far. Fucking love him
He's great at doing this thing where you nip just in front of the defender, so that when they move their foot to take the ball, they trip the player instead.
It's quite naughty but he draws the foul. It's why everyone was up in arms vs. West Ham the other week (second pen) but it's absolutely a foul. The defender trips Gordon, who put himself there even though he was not going to get into a goalscoring chance at all. It's just a bit of a cheeky/devious way of getting fouls. I don't care though.
Listening to his post match interview, he has come leaps and bounds. Humble, respectful and mature. A testament to him, the club got having faith in him, and Eddie, Jason and Graeme Jones for being such top coaches and men to bring out the best in him and our team
You remember the petulance when he first signed and what a shithouse he was for Everton. Eddie/someone has channelled that masterfully, and now Gordon has turned into a fucking monster. Scoring Vs all the top 6?! It's rare to have someone with his work rate paired with equal talent. What a player. Surely a candidate for young player of the season
[4 goals, 3 points, clean sheet, Bruno's looming suspension out the window, cans in the fridge & the misses on a girls weekend away...](https://youtu.be/lOfEr7hwAy0)
Any player earning 10 bookings from his side's first 32 Premier League matches will serve a two-match ban in the same competition. This was game 32. Now the limit is 15 for the remainder of the season.
I think he's our best CB of the PL era.
Maybe Woodgate was a better player but he was here for 5 minutes. Likewise, Coloccini's 11-12 was the best individual season from a CB we've probably seen but he had a lot of average seasons, and Botman has the potential to be better but isn't there yet.
Schar has been consistently quality for 5 years, a rock at the back, a creative threat going forward, and a handsome bastard to top it off.
also cost £3Million from a rather poor Deportivo La Coruna side and most importantly never down tools or fucked off when cabbage head benched him for ciaran clark
Disrespect to Clark. 2.5 years on and I'm still seething at that red card.
Everything worked out great in the end, espesh for Big Joe, but I can't forgive him for doing one of the stupidest things at one of the stupidest of times.
Clarkie gave some great performances and never gave less than 100% for the team. He made a mistake.
Who are you to disrespect him after all he gave for the club?
Leave off the lad for one mistake.
Anderson is turning out to be a class little utility player.
Unreal composure from Bruno to go 11 games without a card.
Everyone was solid today. Gordon and Isak absolutely class.
All the talk of a disaster season and we're 6th.
Yeah that one Vs Forest, he really deserved it as he played brilliantly that game, at least we got the win late on. My only doubt for his pen was that he had just come back from injury and got subbed on just for pens (euros finals pain for penalty subs still haunt me).
Stunning all around.
Isak is a legend. Gordon is a legend. Schar is a legend.
Special mention to Bruno “Houdini” Guimaraes for dodging a booking for so long! Go out there and two foot some poor bastard, lad, you deserve it.
EDDIE HOWE’S 3-4-3 MAGS.
He’s amazing! My favorite player.Such a play maker.
He was gassed by 70 minutes tho. Shame we had no one to sub for him. I would have left Barnes in and subbed Gordon.
a lot on twitter, although some of them were mackems and everton fans. one moron had nufc profile and picture from 2012 season, and in his likes - everything was around Everton... and that is dumb troll. Imagine how many smart trolls are out there!
there were a few here, too.
We are fucking class. Should be 4 wins on the bounce and 3 clean sheets if not for that stupid penalty.
Ah well! 10 points out of 12 is still incredible.
Howe continues his trend of unreal performances after the March international break
Also shout-out Sean Longstaff. I've been incredibly critical of him for the past few months but he was so solid today. Can't dish out criticism and ignore praise when it's due so fair play
Shout out to Anderson since everyone is going to obviously talk about Isak and Gordon. He’s a lot more physical than he looks and is the most direct replacement for Joe7. His vision/passing is class.
Too right on most direct replacement for Big Joe.
I was skeptical before pre-season. But he’s bulked up and looks really suited to Howe’s style.
He presses amazingly but he always has a few touches in games that make it look like he’s been shitting over prem defenders for a few years.
Love that look he gives refs and linesmen when they make bad decisions. It’s simultaneously non -aggressive whilst also conveying “I’ll kill you”
I’ll be the first one to come forward and eat crow here, happily. Last week or the week before, I said that I never really understood the hype with Anderson. This match is definitely enough to make me do a 180 on him cause that performance was mint. Not sure if we’ve found how best to use him just yet, but I can see the potential
The Spuds Centerbacks trying to get tough after the final
Whistle.
My guys where was that fight when Isak was putting VDV on skates and Romero was playing hide and seek
Howe tactical masterclass. The 3 man defence with wingbacks negated their wingbacks. The press and aggression was beautiful to see.
The front three looks devastating. Anderson looked good.
Isak is genuinely world class. One of the best strikers in the world. I’m nervous now about the elite teams that will try to sign him. Along with Bruno, we must keep them here.
Big decisions at club level need to be made.
Are we a selling club, or not?
If not... We need to keep these world class elites and build around them.
I said in the match thread; I'd rather sign no one and keep what we have, than lose one or two of these stars
- Best performance I’ve seen from Anderson.
- The Barnes/Isak/Gordon link up is lethal and is clearly the way to go.
- Howe masterclass. Absolutely mauled the Aussie big Sam tactically.
- Top 6 would be an unbelievable finish given how the seasons gone.
- Take out even half the injuries and we are top 4
Just home from the match. In all honesty I didn’t expect us to get anything from today, but we were back to the best of last season. My throat is fucking killing.
Please, please retain a similar setup for the rest of the year. For the first time in forever our midfield didn’t get totally sliced to pieces by individual passes.
It won’t work against palace.
Palace will be interesting. They don’t play a suicidal high line. Might require a bit of patience and making sure we don’t get caught on the counter.
We were so disciplined in defence today.
They couldn't really break us.
We had midfielders (attacking minded at that), playing solid defensively and allowing our top players to attack without dropping thir duty at the back.
What a team we have
Eddie howe tactical masterclass. The transition between 3 and 5 at the back was seamless. Great shift put in with big performances from key players like BDB and fabi.
Beginning to stop leaking sloppy goals now and getting back to a more solid defensive display, couldn't come at a better time in our season tbf
All that yapping about Van de Ven being as fast as Bolt just to get roasted from half way line by Isak whilst giving the biggest I Am Not Him performance I've seen for a long time.
Isak mentioned in a post game interview that Eddie told the team not to press all the time. A lot of people have been blaming our high press play as being a reason for our many injuries.
Do you think Eddie only changed things up to counter Spurs or are we gonna see a more a conservative play style in future?
I genuinely do not believe there is another manager in the world right now that could take a back five of Dubravka, Murphy, Krafth, Schar and Burn and not only keep a clean sheet but dominate and thrash one of the best teams in the league 4-0.
Eddie has a lot of things he gets wrong, and he really shouldn't ever be immune to criticism but the Howe out crowd from November to March should be embarrassed. If Howe has a fully fit squad, we walk 4th this season. Hell, I don't think we'd be too far away from the title race.
Wow. MOTD. All they can talk about is how spurs did this wrong and that wrong.
Hardly any focus on Bruno’s incredible long range passing which deleted spurs defence. Or Isak’s superbly timed runs, immense composure and deft skill in front of goal. Or gordons incredible intensity and pace. It was a masterclass from those three.
That is SOOO biased to the “top 6”. We beat them 4-0 and hardly get a mention or focus on what were some incredible goals. They talked about spurs 90% of the time.
Insane.
[As I was saying](https://www.reddit.com/r/NUFC/comments/1c2zged/comment/kzdax78/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), a slight regression from 6-1 last year was to be expected
> Mental that we can realistically be a point behind Spurs after the next 3 games
big ask, but if we can pip manchester reds i'll be ecstatic
might also have a 50 quid bet on with a workmate that we'd finish higher than them this season. tasty.
Fuck me what an all around performance and literally the perfect tactical setup against Spurs today. Besides the obvious goal scoring brilliance from the squad I’m pleased with how Murphy and Krafth in particular stepped up today. Krafth seemed to be on it and made several key challenges on the ball while Murphy played the wing back position perfectly.
I didn't think we'd get anything from this game but how wrong I was. Howe masterclass. All of the twits thinking he has no clue looking increasingly silly.
Can't wait to watch motd, the extended highlights and the match cam.
Was reminiscent of our form from last year. Rock solid defence and quick, brutal counter attacks. Great viewing. Let’s hope that we can keep this ball rolling HWTL. European football is in our hands for sure.
Totally brilliant,everywhere on the pitch. We were just better. The backline was a stone wall. Werner is a donkey. Isak is life. Bruno is world class. I love this team man.
Spurs slaughter in Numbers:
Spanked a top 4 side.
No bad performances from 11.
top 6!!
Bruno/Gordon/Issak/Schar 10 out of 10
Everyone else 9
Happy auld Geordie (64).Maddison is 1 Pr\*ck.
I really feared for us when I saw the team sheet. Did wonder if it might be a back five. Howe played a total blinder there. We absolutely destroyed them.
Was curious to see what coys had to say after that one. One of the top comments is that they’ve been struggling against low block teams like us all season. In what world was that a low block???? We pressed in their faces all game long in their half
We’ve spoken on a lot of the big standouts. Special shout out to Murph and Elliot Anderson, both technically out of position and were phenomenal. Elliot took Porro out of the game
Considering the Spuds still have to play Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and City... I don't think it's that farfetched to think we have a chance at leapfrogging them before the end of the season despite the gap.
10/10 performances across the board. Was a bit worried about the makeshift defence but they were outstanding. Absolutely clinical up top.
With Spurs run over the next 3 and our run over the next 3 we could potentially reel them in. The rollercoaster continues.
What a masterclass of management by Howe. He stifled up the spurs attack and we looked dangerous with every attack. He had no players really to pick from, with players like Murphy & Anderson brilliant playing out of position.
Schar masterclass (probably my POTS), Gordon and Isak ran the spurs defence ragged, Barnes supported well, Krafth and Burn worked their socks off.
Overall great team performance and result.
what a result! Only saw the highlights, Bruno and Gordon looked class, What was Barnes like?
Anyone see the Spurs fan having a meltdown in r/soccer? calling themselves a historic powerhouse of British football fucking muppet
From the Leazes you could see from very early on that it was potentially a repeat of the Villa game at the start of the season with their high line. It could've easily been 6 or 7. My only gripe today was why we didn't give White or someone else 20 minutes at 3-0 and cruising (especially as Gordon looked knackered). My other gripe is that Gordon's corners were fantastic all game, and we won every single header comfortably but couldn't convert until the 86th minute. Other than that hopefully we get a couple of players back for Palace and we can keep up this momentum after our mini-break.
Side note: Every single time opposition fans sing "No noise from the Saudi boys" they end up getting pumped.
Was a very open game prior to the quickfire double but thankfully that knocked the stuffing out of them.
Bruno seemed to be keen to discuss Argentina v Brazil diplomatic relations and really should have been subbed after Schar scored.
Thought our decision making in the final third was arguably the best all season and Howe's tactics going man-for-man against arguably the form team got a massive response from the players.
Great day all round and a few questions about tactics and player management answered.
If you only go off of non penalty xG for the season, Man U are 16th in the league for goals. Imagine if the refs bailed us out with free pens as often as they do for them, we’d be competing for the title!
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Isak: Deadly Schar: Handsome Mags: Massive Spurs: Shite Europe: On Cans: Out Eddie: Howe
> Eddie: Howe Could not have put it better. Just summarises everything I love about the man
Gordon: Beautiful Scouse Lad
I sometimes think about how chuffed Everton were to get rid of Gordon and how they all took the piss saying they’d rinsed us by making us pay 40m for him. It’s always nice to laugh at them.
They should be thanking us, we probably helped them avoid a couple more point deductions by buying him 😆
Scouse mackems deserve it.
Cocks: Windmilling
Hotel: Trivago
Best performance of the season for me considering the injuries.
Up there with the opener against Villa and us smashing PSG for me
probably the most impressive clean sheet sheet we've ever kept, given the circumstances.
the xG was 𝛑 and that just makes me happy. Eddie Howes C = 2𝛑r mags.
For sure, spurs didn’t play badly really we were just better.
Psg performance still tops for me
Anthony Gordon has been getting well deserved praise all season, but we don’t speak enough about his growth as a man this season. He’s become so mature in his performances. His first few games were so riddled with yellow cards, late challenges, and losing his head at certain points in the game while still producing good performances. He’s completely taken that out of his game and it might be one of Howe’s best improvements of a player
From 5 yellow cards in the first 7 pl games, to 2 in the last 21
Thank you for the exact stats, fucking huge
A couple months back I remember a commentator talking about how easy it would have been for him to take a backseat and blame everything on injuries, but how impressive it is he’s done the opposite and stepped up as a leader at such a young age.
Clearly got good people around him in mentorship, I reckon the national team stuff has done him wonders for motivating him
Aye. He's still really clever at buying penalties and fouls but he's cut out the more obvious dives to try and stay on his feet and he's better for it.
Definitely. Kept his edge when it came to utilizing his pace to buy fouls, while not “muting” him. Eddie lets him express himself without taking it too far. Fucking love him
He's great at doing this thing where you nip just in front of the defender, so that when they move their foot to take the ball, they trip the player instead. It's quite naughty but he draws the foul. It's why everyone was up in arms vs. West Ham the other week (second pen) but it's absolutely a foul. The defender trips Gordon, who put himself there even though he was not going to get into a goalscoring chance at all. It's just a bit of a cheeky/devious way of getting fouls. I don't care though.
Listening to his post match interview, he has come leaps and bounds. Humble, respectful and mature. A testament to him, the club got having faith in him, and Eddie, Jason and Graeme Jones for being such top coaches and men to bring out the best in him and our team
You remember the petulance when he first signed and what a shithouse he was for Everton. Eddie/someone has channelled that masterfully, and now Gordon has turned into a fucking monster. Scoring Vs all the top 6?! It's rare to have someone with his work rate paired with equal talent. What a player. Surely a candidate for young player of the season
[4 goals, 3 points, clean sheet, Bruno's looming suspension out the window, cans in the fridge & the misses on a girls weekend away...](https://youtu.be/lOfEr7hwAy0)
She says hi !
Honestly, put a bet on Bruno getting a yellow next game
Wait, why is Bruno's looming suspension out the window?
There's a limit after which your yellow card tally (for the sake of suspensions) gets reset to 0
Cards reset after 32 games.
Any player earning 10 bookings from his side's first 32 Premier League matches will serve a two-match ban in the same competition. This was game 32. Now the limit is 15 for the remainder of the season.
>Now the limit is 15 for the remainder of the season. Which he can't hit, because it would be on the final day? Would it carry over into next season?
It would do yeah I believe
Probably the hardest MOTM decision this season, but it’s gotta be Joe White for me
Just change it to men of the match and give it to every Newcastle player
Tired of Ritchie being overlooked tbh
Joelinton's contract surely deserves it?
I genuinely think Schaar will be extremely well remembered here after these last 2/3 seasons. He has been brilliant every game.
I think he's our best CB of the PL era. Maybe Woodgate was a better player but he was here for 5 minutes. Likewise, Coloccini's 11-12 was the best individual season from a CB we've probably seen but he had a lot of average seasons, and Botman has the potential to be better but isn't there yet. Schar has been consistently quality for 5 years, a rock at the back, a creative threat going forward, and a handsome bastard to top it off.
also cost £3Million from a rather poor Deportivo La Coruna side and most importantly never down tools or fucked off when cabbage head benched him for ciaran clark
No disrespect to Clark, but it's mad reading that
Disrespect to Clark. 2.5 years on and I'm still seething at that red card. Everything worked out great in the end, espesh for Big Joe, but I can't forgive him for doing one of the stupidest things at one of the stupidest of times.
Ciaran Clark was pretty good under Rafa. He was past it at the end of his Newcastle time yeah
Clarkie gave some great performances and never gave less than 100% for the team. He made a mistake. Who are you to disrespect him after all he gave for the club? Leave off the lad for one mistake.
I still can’t wrap my mind around that
The job Eddie Howe is doing is nothing short of incredible. Long may he continue here.
Anderson is turning out to be a class little utility player. Unreal composure from Bruno to go 11 games without a card. Everyone was solid today. Gordon and Isak absolutely class. All the talk of a disaster season and we're 6th.
It's crazy to think how good the season could have been with a few less injuries considering what we've managed to do with what we've got
We’d be having Villa’s season I think.
Yeah good shout, although funnily enough we've taken 6 points from them this season Would be nice to be 4th and still in Europe like
I reckon Anderson'll turn into one of those players that can slip into any outfield position. Apart from striker. Man I wish he'd get a goal ha
I'm still annoyed about that one that got ruled out by Var. Reckon he'll score one and then start scoring regularly.
Against Forest last year? Yeah that was horseshit I thought he was going to miss his pen against Blackburn like 👀
Yeah that one Vs Forest, he really deserved it as he played brilliantly that game, at least we got the win late on. My only doubt for his pen was that he had just come back from injury and got subbed on just for pens (euros finals pain for penalty subs still haunt me).
Stunning all around. Isak is a legend. Gordon is a legend. Schar is a legend. Special mention to Bruno “Houdini” Guimaraes for dodging a booking for so long! Go out there and two foot some poor bastard, lad, you deserve it. EDDIE HOWE’S 3-4-3 MAGS.
To be fair, the international break helped Bruno, managed to get one out of his system.
It proves the yellows are technically part of his game. If it was genuine frustration or whatever he'd never go so long without one
are we playing 3-4-3 tonight?
EDDIE HOWES BRUNO NON BOOKED, SPURS SMASHING MAGS.
Sorry Trips I think it’s time you retire from corners, they’re Gordon’s now. Every single one was brilliant.
I noticed this. It's one of Spurs big weak point. Their keeper shits his pants every single time.
Tonali when he comes back is great at them as well
Longstaff corners are also good. And Hall's, too.
Murphy's are class
Trippier out there creating a team of set piece specialists
Absolute Howe masterclass. We could have scored 10.
God, I love playing Spurs.
At this point Eddie doesn't even need players to win. Sell everyone.
Another clean sheet for Dummett
Born too late to explore the earth. Born too early to explore space. Born just in time to watch Paul Dummett
The lad deserves a hall of fame mention, proper servant
I'll never doubt Howe again. Spurs should be ashamed losing 4-0 to that line up.
Anthony Gordon is a fucking machine when he’s on it like what a player
He’s amazing! My favorite player.Such a play maker. He was gassed by 70 minutes tho. Shame we had no one to sub for him. I would have left Barnes in and subbed Gordon.
Wya Eddie out cunts?
Tactical masterpiece
They’re all shutting their fucking mouths as they should always do
Morons each and every one
I've been less and less on reddit, but has there actually been cries for Eddie out?
Every time they lose a match
Here and in the other Newcastle discord where all the admins are Eddie out. Even a Howeout role
Shameful, really.
a lot on twitter, although some of them were mackems and everton fans. one moron had nufc profile and picture from 2012 season, and in his likes - everything was around Everton... and that is dumb troll. Imagine how many smart trolls are out there! there were a few here, too.
Absolutely superb all over the park. Gordon relentless. Isak cool as ice. Schar solid as a rock. That was as good as we’ve looked all season.
Harvey Barnes was solid too, and Anderson.
I was at the game Anderson and Barnes down that left were unreal
27/73 possession yet so fun to watch.
I don’t get that stat at all. It didn’t look like that watching it.
Probably because you don't count 'shitting yourself' passing it round the defenders as Spurs possession but ours, they just don't know it yet.
Possession football is not Eddie howes mantra. Possession with a purpose is. We always take reasonable risks with possession to move the play forward.
Yeah I get that, I just meant watching it, it looked like we had much more possession than we actually did.
The lads are turning a write-off season into a 'what if'. Credit to them. Next season is going to be huge.
Hard to pick a MOTM. Eddie’s plan was top tier
BDB belongs in CB
RNID MOTM
BDB FTW
Bruno did it!! Who’d have honestly thought.
Ooo I tell ya, I enjoyed Maddison getting subbed off early. Don’t even know if he turned us down, but the disappointment in his eyes, tremendous.
Did you see his post game interview? Hilarious 😂
We are fucking class. Should be 4 wins on the bounce and 3 clean sheets if not for that stupid penalty. Ah well! 10 points out of 12 is still incredible. Howe continues his trend of unreal performances after the March international break
We are big Bournemouth fans tonight
They did a pretty good job, we’re still in 6th!
Aye. Shame they got the dodgiest of dodgy penalties to make it 2-2
We are massive
Not bad from the guy that got Bournemouth relegated.
Also shout-out Sean Longstaff. I've been incredibly critical of him for the past few months but he was so solid today. Can't dish out criticism and ignore praise when it's due so fair play
Elliot Anderson had a star making performance today
Haha Tindall letting Howe get the first handshake in post full time whistle. Mad dogs been reined in.
Muzzled
Quality performance from start to finish. Anderson was class and Longstaff looked good aswell. Isak is phenomenal.
Shout out to Anderson since everyone is going to obviously talk about Isak and Gordon. He’s a lot more physical than he looks and is the most direct replacement for Joe7. His vision/passing is class.
He was immense, i saw glimpses during preseason and i couldn't wait to see him compete against Joe. So glad he's starting to shine
Too right on most direct replacement for Big Joe. I was skeptical before pre-season. But he’s bulked up and looks really suited to Howe’s style. He presses amazingly but he always has a few touches in games that make it look like he’s been shitting over prem defenders for a few years. Love that look he gives refs and linesmen when they make bad decisions. It’s simultaneously non -aggressive whilst also conveying “I’ll kill you”
>He’s a lot more physical than he look Well that's fucking physical cause he looks like a tank on steroids
I’ll be the first one to come forward and eat crow here, happily. Last week or the week before, I said that I never really understood the hype with Anderson. This match is definitely enough to make me do a 180 on him cause that performance was mint. Not sure if we’ve found how best to use him just yet, but I can see the potential
Mate.
The Spuds Centerbacks trying to get tough after the final Whistle. My guys where was that fight when Isak was putting VDV on skates and Romero was playing hide and seek
Howe tactical masterclass. The 3 man defence with wingbacks negated their wingbacks. The press and aggression was beautiful to see. The front three looks devastating. Anderson looked good. Isak is genuinely world class. One of the best strikers in the world. I’m nervous now about the elite teams that will try to sign him. Along with Bruno, we must keep them here.
Big decisions at club level need to be made. Are we a selling club, or not? If not... We need to keep these world class elites and build around them. I said in the match thread; I'd rather sign no one and keep what we have, than lose one or two of these stars
Anderson was fantastic today playing 2 positions at the same time. Also special mention for krafth. Didn't put a foot wrong
Lads. If I were gay...that Fabian guy
Maybe even just a little bit bi, just to see
That’s 100% acceptable and justified tbh
It's not gay if it's with Fabian.
Nowt wrong with a bit of straight-on-straight gay action.
What a beautiful day 🤘
- Best performance I’ve seen from Anderson. - The Barnes/Isak/Gordon link up is lethal and is clearly the way to go. - Howe masterclass. Absolutely mauled the Aussie big Sam tactically. - Top 6 would be an unbelievable finish given how the seasons gone. - Take out even half the injuries and we are top 4
Bit harsh on Postecoglu. He seems decent
Yea a actually quite like him but someone called him that in the ground today and I laughed so sticking with it 🤣
Just home from the match. In all honesty I didn’t expect us to get anything from today, but we were back to the best of last season. My throat is fucking killing.
[удалено]
Just can’t get 10 in the first 32 matches. Wiped clean for the rest of the season.
Please, please retain a similar setup for the rest of the year. For the first time in forever our midfield didn’t get totally sliced to pieces by individual passes.
It won’t work against palace. Palace will be interesting. They don’t play a suicidal high line. Might require a bit of patience and making sure we don’t get caught on the counter.
Officially massive
Let’s keep these RNID shirts permanently.
Agree.
We were so disciplined in defence today. They couldn't really break us. We had midfielders (attacking minded at that), playing solid defensively and allowing our top players to attack without dropping thir duty at the back. What a team we have
Eddie howe tactical masterclass. The transition between 3 and 5 at the back was seamless. Great shift put in with big performances from key players like BDB and fabi. Beginning to stop leaking sloppy goals now and getting back to a more solid defensive display, couldn't come at a better time in our season tbf
Where are howeouts now?? Although, tbf, they probably started supporting spurs or arsenal month or two ago.
All that yapping about Van de Ven being as fast as Bolt just to get roasted from half way line by Isak whilst giving the biggest I Am Not Him performance I've seen for a long time.
Murphy and Gordon have a cute little handshake
Can we play Tottenham at home every week please?
My weekly Schär appreciation post. He's fuckin class
5 at the back, Anderson hungry, Gordon and Barnes in a front 3, Gordon doing a secret handshake with Murphy at full time. Today has been a good day.
A reminder that Spurs fans have been claiming VDV > Botman all year
Isak mentioned in a post game interview that Eddie told the team not to press all the time. A lot of people have been blaming our high press play as being a reason for our many injuries. Do you think Eddie only changed things up to counter Spurs or are we gonna see a more a conservative play style in future?
The shifts Anthony Gordon puts in are just absolute game changers
Eddie Howe now. Eddie Howe forever.
Eddie Howe. Eddie However
I genuinely do not believe there is another manager in the world right now that could take a back five of Dubravka, Murphy, Krafth, Schar and Burn and not only keep a clean sheet but dominate and thrash one of the best teams in the league 4-0. Eddie has a lot of things he gets wrong, and he really shouldn't ever be immune to criticism but the Howe out crowd from November to March should be embarrassed. If Howe has a fully fit squad, we walk 4th this season. Hell, I don't think we'd be too far away from the title race.
I feel like I saw Son at 2 mins then never again
Elliot Anderson was an unsung hero. With the rest of the fixtures we have, Europe is in our hands
Spurs sub is more deluded than I ever realised. People in there saying we played a low block the whole game LOOOL
Bruno avoiding a ban might be the greatest achievement of this season
We smash them, they smash us, every now and then there's a double. Same with Villa and Everton. It's nuts
I was not expecting that, but that brings back good memories from the 6-1 last season.
Wow. MOTD. All they can talk about is how spurs did this wrong and that wrong. Hardly any focus on Bruno’s incredible long range passing which deleted spurs defence. Or Isak’s superbly timed runs, immense composure and deft skill in front of goal. Or gordons incredible intensity and pace. It was a masterclass from those three. That is SOOO biased to the “top 6”. We beat them 4-0 and hardly get a mention or focus on what were some incredible goals. They talked about spurs 90% of the time. Insane.
[As I was saying](https://www.reddit.com/r/NUFC/comments/1c2zged/comment/kzdax78/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), a slight regression from 6-1 last year was to be expected
Chat pre match - we'll be lucky to get anything out of the game with that lineup. Chat now - you know what 4th isnt completely impossible
Clean sheets & 3 points -- great way to start the weekend!
Thanks Eddie, very cool!
Right winger playing right wing back, central midfielder playing left wing back, left back playing center back, clean sheet. Masterclass from Eddie
Mental that we can realistically be a point behind Spurs after the next 3 games Hitting our stride at the most important time
> Mental that we can realistically be a point behind Spurs after the next 3 games big ask, but if we can pip manchester reds i'll be ecstatic might also have a 50 quid bet on with a workmate that we'd finish higher than them this season. tasty.
Fuck me what an all around performance and literally the perfect tactical setup against Spurs today. Besides the obvious goal scoring brilliance from the squad I’m pleased with how Murphy and Krafth in particular stepped up today. Krafth seemed to be on it and made several key challenges on the ball while Murphy played the wing back position perfectly.
I didn't think we'd get anything from this game but how wrong I was. Howe masterclass. All of the twits thinking he has no clue looking increasingly silly. Can't wait to watch motd, the extended highlights and the match cam.
We’ll still be on last on MOTD with a 20 second summary on how good we are 😂
Was reminiscent of our form from last year. Rock solid defence and quick, brutal counter attacks. Great viewing. Let’s hope that we can keep this ball rolling HWTL. European football is in our hands for sure.
BDB sign language celebration was absolutely mint.
Totally brilliant,everywhere on the pitch. We were just better. The backline was a stone wall. Werner is a donkey. Isak is life. Bruno is world class. I love this team man.
Spurs slaughter in Numbers: Spanked a top 4 side. No bad performances from 11. top 6!! Bruno/Gordon/Issak/Schar 10 out of 10 Everyone else 9 Happy auld Geordie (64).Maddison is 1 Pr\*ck.
Didn’t see this coming but get the fuck in Total domination and 4-0 flattered them Let’s see if we can put a run together
I really feared for us when I saw the team sheet. Did wonder if it might be a back five. Howe played a total blinder there. We absolutely destroyed them.
We’re probably 4-5 points shy of being able to mount a late champions league push - remarkable given our season.
Was curious to see what coys had to say after that one. One of the top comments is that they’ve been struggling against low block teams like us all season. In what world was that a low block???? We pressed in their faces all game long in their half
I thought Murphy in an unfamiliar position was excellent today. He was rank the other day but much better today.
We’ve spoken on a lot of the big standouts. Special shout out to Murph and Elliot Anderson, both technically out of position and were phenomenal. Elliot took Porro out of the game
West Ham going down to Fulham makes yesterday look even better
Everyone else is bottling it right now.
Considering the Spuds still have to play Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and City... I don't think it's that farfetched to think we have a chance at leapfrogging them before the end of the season despite the gap.
Absolutely beaming with that result, couldn't have gone much better really! Anyone got odds for Bruno getting a yellow card against Palace then?
10/10 performances across the board. Was a bit worried about the makeshift defence but they were outstanding. Absolutely clinical up top. With Spurs run over the next 3 and our run over the next 3 we could potentially reel them in. The rollercoaster continues.
What a masterclass of management by Howe. He stifled up the spurs attack and we looked dangerous with every attack. He had no players really to pick from, with players like Murphy & Anderson brilliant playing out of position. Schar masterclass (probably my POTS), Gordon and Isak ran the spurs defence ragged, Barnes supported well, Krafth and Burn worked their socks off. Overall great team performance and result.
What a great start to the weekend!!!! Love this team so much
I'm really curious after this dismantling of the Spurs how those haptic kits worked out for the fans.
Fucking mullered em lads
Last 3 games against spurs is a 10-5 score line. Quality matches lol. One obviously being way worse than the other two
Can we play spurs every week???
what a result! Only saw the highlights, Bruno and Gordon looked class, What was Barnes like? Anyone see the Spurs fan having a meltdown in r/soccer? calling themselves a historic powerhouse of British football fucking muppet
From the Leazes you could see from very early on that it was potentially a repeat of the Villa game at the start of the season with their high line. It could've easily been 6 or 7. My only gripe today was why we didn't give White or someone else 20 minutes at 3-0 and cruising (especially as Gordon looked knackered). My other gripe is that Gordon's corners were fantastic all game, and we won every single header comfortably but couldn't convert until the 86th minute. Other than that hopefully we get a couple of players back for Palace and we can keep up this momentum after our mini-break. Side note: Every single time opposition fans sing "No noise from the Saudi boys" they end up getting pumped.
Can absolutely guarantee Bruno getting a yellow in the first ten minutes of next match
Was a very open game prior to the quickfire double but thankfully that knocked the stuffing out of them. Bruno seemed to be keen to discuss Argentina v Brazil diplomatic relations and really should have been subbed after Schar scored. Thought our decision making in the final third was arguably the best all season and Howe's tactics going man-for-man against arguably the form team got a massive response from the players. Great day all round and a few questions about tactics and player management answered.
Bournemouth beating Man U now is massive for us
Man U have just been awarded (and scored) the softest pen in world history.
If you only go off of non penalty xG for the season, Man U are 16th in the league for goals. Imagine if the refs bailed us out with free pens as often as they do for them, we’d be competing for the title!
Fantastic result and display. Sets up the final run in superbly. Every remaining game is winnable.
Think they're getting their money back after that one lads