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Newcastle vs. Crystal Palace match thread

Not very often I switch off Palace but I turned over to watch the Arsenal game and Real can’t lay a glove on them so that was dull too.

What an absolute crap week of football we’ve had.
 
In the lead up to this game Glasner was at pains to emphasise our very good defensive record this season and not to focus on the 2 games where we conceded 5 goals (Arsenal and Man City), seeing those games as aberrations.

That was probably fair, but then we let another 5 in tonight.
This will inevitably knock confidence, and although the defenders all had nights to forget, I was more concerned by the lack of form and fitness of the midfielders.
Neither Hughes nor Wharton still look right and this is fundamental to our ability to retain the ball and create.

Footnote; Sky has just said we had a higher xG than Newcastle. Just goes to show preposterous that stat is.
 

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