Newcastle 1 Fulham 2 – Instant Newcastle United fan/writer reaction | OneFootball

Newcastle 1 Fulham 2 – Saturday 1 February 2025 3pm

Instant fan / writer reaction from some of our regular contributors on The Mag.

‘Pretty much deja vu to the Bournemouth match.

A number of players off their game and an opposition that took their chances.

I wouldn’t have minded a couple of the Fulham subs coming on for us, but our squad is what it is, with nothing at present to come on and change the game for us.

He’s hoping for better things on Wednesday, I dare to dream’

Jamie Smith:

‘Couple of shouts for some bad refereeing decisions and from where I was it looked like a foul on Gordon that the referee allowed for them to break.

However, blaming some soft refereeing would be total deflection from a worrying United performance.

Once again an unspectacular opponent comes and digs in, presses the midfield and leaves SJP with 3 points.

Many off days today and the collective worry will be that Arsenal seize on another home stinker to upset our comfortable league cup advantage.

Good news would be that they don’t have the luxury of sitting back, bad news is they’re a better team than the one we surrendered a lead to today. Correct this on Wednesday please.’

Matt Busby said to Joe Harvey…:

‘Undone again at home by a side that seemed to have a bit more energy about them.

Hitting the woodwork twice didn’t help but it was all a bit lacklustre.

Play like that on Wednesday and there’ll be a lot of Premier Inn bookings being cancelled.’

GToon:

‘What a load of…

what the point in going on a winning run, competing at the top and then failing to win any of 9 games against Brentford, Bournemouth, Brighton, West Ham, Palace, Fulham, Everton.

9 games, 27 points available and we manage 3 draws and lose 4 at home.

That’s relegation form not champions league.

What exactly is going on?’

David Punton:

‘A poor second half has cost us big time.

It all looked so promising after Murphy’s strike, but we’ve unravelled, and it’s the London side that take all three points, leaving Eddie Howe with much to ponder, not least his substitutes.

It could have been all so different had Sandro’s shot gone in.

This is such a season of ups and downs.

Our European hopes have taken another knock as we failed to build on a great win away at Southampton.

Arsenal will be watching keenly ahead of the midweek crunch. They might fancy they can overhaul that 0-2 advantage.

The players need to step it up. Big time.

Ironically, a 1-2 loss on Wednesday night would still see us progress to that league cup final.’

Tony Mallabar:

‘I actually enjoyed the second half today with both teams going for it.

Us going in 1-0 at ht, but start of the second half Fulham carved us apart and the only surprise was it took them so long to equalise.

Of course, this game will be long forgotten if we get through on Wednesday, so the jury is out till then.

Four home defeats to so called lesser opposition is just not acceptable if the direction we’re heading in is upwards.

Also, blaming PSR when the rules are the same for everyone and we’ve basically got a full squad to pick from.

So Eddie, sort it out or Rafa is waiting in the wings.’

‘Two home losses in a row.

Fulham were aggressive and committed and probably deserved to confirm a league double over us.

Last year we only lost at home to teams that had won the Champions League.

This year we only seem to be doing it against teams that have never been in it!

We need to be rectifying that if we’re going to be in that competition next year.

We’re still 10 wins and 2 losses from our last 12 games so we shouldn’t panic yet.

Need a much higher level on Wednesday though.’

Newcastle 1 Fulham 2 – Saturday 1 February 2025 3pm

Goals:

Newcastle United:

Murphy 36

Fulham:

Jimenez 61, Muniz 82

Possession was Newcastle 47% Fulham 53%

Total shots were Newcastle 11 Fulham 15

Shots on target were Newcastle 4 Fulham 4

Corners were Newcastle 4 Fulham 7

Touches in the box Newcastle 32 Fulham 30

Newcastle team v Fulham:

Dubravka, Livramento (Trippier 64), Schar, Burn, Hall (Kelly 87), Tonali, Joelinton (Willock 64), Bruno (Miley 87), Murphy (Osula 87), Isak, Gordon

Unused subs:

Pope, Botman, Krafth, Longstaff

Newcastle United upcoming matches:

Wednesday 5 February – Newcastle v Arsenal (8pm) Sky Sports (League Cup)

Saturday 8 February – Birmingham v Newcastle (5.45pm) BBC1 and BBC iPlayer (FA Cup)

Saturday 15 February – Man City v Newcastle (3pm)

Sunday 23 February – Newcastle v Forest (2pm) Sky Sports

Wednesday 26 February – Liverpool v Newcastle (8.15pm) TNT Sports

(Weekend of Saturday 1 March –  NUFC will play in FA Cup fifth round if getting past Birmingham)

Monday 10 March – West Ham v Newcastle (8pm) Sky Sports

Saturday 15 March – Newcastle v Crystal Palace (3pm)