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Newcastle’s right-hand aspect has gone from its simplest attacking outlet to its least.
Everyone knows that we missed the prospect to enhance our drawback place (right-winger) over the summer season, however Anthony Gordon did nothing earlier than he was shifted to a central position after Isak’s harm, Tino Livramento lacked high quality and Harvey Barnes was so sloppy, seeming to be on a mission to show to administration that it truly is left aspect or bust for him.
With Gordon, it appears like shoehorning gamers into positions simply to accommodate them is clearly reaching its breaking level. It’s an idea that’s stretched so skinny it barely has any benefit left, and it’s one other failure of squad constructing. He’s clearly at his greatest on the left, but that is the one place (in assault) he didn’t play on Saturday.
Certain, when United took a £40m punt on Gordon they didn’t know he would develop as a lot as he has (however, admittedly, he’s stinking up the place proper now), so why then spend one other £40m on Harvey Barnes for a similar place? It’s only a little bit of a large number, with Saturday ending up with a left-winger up prime (Gordon), a forward-turned-midfielder (Joelinton) on the left (though extra as a left-wing again!) and an out-and-out left-winger (Barnes) approaching down the best.
Joelinton isn’t a right-winger both, he can ‘do a job’ however a workforce pushing for European competitors shouldn’t have gamers simply ‘doing jobs’ for one-off video games. The large Brazilian additionally lacks the technical high quality or craft to harm groups like Palace, the place he spent most of his time monitoring Munoz, not inflicting issues on the different finish.
Then to Livramento, I really feel he’s restricted by taking part in in a aspect with tactical directions that don’t swimsuit him, and he’s being crowded and marked out of video games. Not solely that, for all of his defensive skill and athleticism, he’s a stage or two beneath Trippier from a technical viewpoint.
Clearly anyone has determined that Miguel Almiron’s time is up at Newcastle. He has been frozen out of any type of recreation time and the identical may very well be mentioned of Trippier (however on a barely lesser stage), but when you will stick with the identical techniques and the identical attacking patterns and constructions, certainly the pair of them can’t be worse than what we’re seeing from the right-hand aspect on the minute?
The best-side of our midfield three can also be affected by a scarcity of consistency. We hoped Sandro Tonali would slot in right here, however his greatest soccer is coming as a No.6 currently. Sean Longstaff has usually performed on this right-sided No.8 position, however his on-ball limitations are clear in opposition to groups we ought to be beating and Bruno Guimaraes seemed just a little misplaced in that barely extra superior right-sided position on Saturday.
A brand new right-winger is required, so as to add an injection of life into Newcastle’s drawback place and permit Gordon to maneuver again to the left, however consistency from that aspect of our midfield and extra attacking output from Livramento can also be wanted, with Howe compelled to search out in-house options earlier than the January window opens in 4 weeks time.
