However, there was nothing wrong with the attacking display on show as Wilson and Murphy were amongst the FPL points, along with team-mates Allan Saint-Maximin (£6.5m) and Matt Ritchie (£5.0m), who both supplied assists. Overall, I was really pleased with a lot of it, but we have to be better defensively.” – Steve Bruce In the Premier League, when you chase it, you leave yourself exposed and once we do that, it becomes difficult for us. We conceded far too many goals last year and we have to sharpen up defensively. James’ Park, the Magpies failed to contain their opponents and collapsed in the second-half, shipping three goals in a disastrous 13-minute spell. But I like the thought that we’re scoring four because that’s always good.” DEFENSIVE ISSUES REMAIN AT NEWCASTLEĪ new season, but the same defensive issues remain at Newcastle United.Įven after taking the lead twice at St. I think we’re a pretty good watch and I think we were last year, but I don’t want us to be losing two goals every week because it’s not my style. We want to go win, attack and score goals. But I think we approached the game exactly as we would have done at home. Last season, we were talking about teams winning away because there was no crowd in the stadium. We needed to do that better and I thought we did. We also had so many counter-attacks, but we didn’t make the final pass well enough. I was more annoyed because of how we’d done defensively.
There was no message, I thought we’d done a lot. I thought we had done enough to be in front even then, I thought we played well, but we didn’t make the final pass as well as we should have done and we didn’t defend a couple of crosses that well. The first half was end-to-end, unfortunately we gave them a bit of a leg up in giving them a second goal. “I thought it was a great game, I really enjoyed it myself. 10 role and ended the game with his first double-digit FPL haul courtesy of a goal, an assist and two bonus points.ĭefensively, West Ham struggled for large periods, which manager David Moyes touched on in his post-match interview:
Meanwhile, his total of three big chances was more than any other player in Gameweek 1, which is an encouraging sign for his owners ahead of games against Leicester City, Crystal Palace and Southampton in the coming weeks.Īs for Benrahma, after an impressive pre-season, he continued to shine in a no. However, he did earn an assist after Soucek slammed in the rebound and later scored a brilliant counter-attacking goal himself. It was an excellent performance by Antonio and he was perhaps unfortunate not to score more, as his penalty was met by a wonderful Freddie Woodman (£4.5m) save in the second-half.
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