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An out-of-sorts Toon Army ground out a point against the Cherries this afternoon, as Anthony Gordon’s second-half equaliser came to Eddie Howe’s rescue before the home side were denied by VAR deep into stoppage time.
I’d imagine fan reaction to this one will be largely disappointed with the overall performance. If we are to achieve our desired goals this season, improvement will be needed, and quickly too. It’s a steady start with four point from a possible six, but we have a big week ahead – new signings needed, Nottingham Forest to come on Wednesday and Spurs next up in the league at St James’ next weekend.
If Newcastle had won today, it would’ve been the first time since 1997/98 that we had won out two opening games of a Premier League season, but we’ll just have to settle with still being unbeaten instead as some VAR drama at the death helped us avoid what looked at one stage like a dismal defeat.
Eddie Howe made two changes, bringing in Emil Krafth and Lloyd Kelly for Fabian Schar and Lewis Hall. We started poorly last weekend, but in the opening 20 minutes here we looked the better of the two sides as we controlled possession, won our duels and created a couple of openings.
However, the first real chance went Bournemouth’s way, Evanilson’s well struck effort from the left side of the six-yard box drew a save out of Nick Pope with his legs. United then went straight down the other end, and Isak played an excellent ball across the box which Gordon was too slow to react to.
Semenyo then hit the crossbar with a fizzing, dipping effort before Bournemouth took the lead. In the 37thminute Joelinton was robbed of possession deep in his own half, allowing Semenyo to square the ball for Tavernier to tap in from a yard out. Perhaps highlighting a £65million hole in our backline?
The second half of the first half was incredibly poor from a Black and White perspective with passes going astray, poor application of the press, slack running and…
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Author : Jonathan Young
Publish date : 2024-08-25 15:36:10
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