Ipswich fans comments following the 4-0 thrashing from Newcastle United

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·24 de dezembro de 2024

Ipswich fans comments following the 4-0 thrashing from Newcastle United

Ipswich fans watched on as their team kicked off on Saturday, yet found themselves a goal down with only 26 seconds played.

Alexander Isak scoring and after a very lengthy VAR offside check the good stood.

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The Sweden international scoring the first of what proved to be three goals for himself, with Newcastle dominating and Jacob Murphy scoring the other goal.

It could and should have been seven or eight for United, so what do the locals think

Ipswich fans commenting after the 4-0 thrashing by Newcastle United, comments via the TWTD message board:

‘We all came away from the Newcastle game thinking we got out battled, out run and generally out done for most of the 90 minutes.

But looking back on all 4 goals they were all kind of freakish.

Strangely enough Newcastle missed 2 or 3 big chances where they played great footie and missed sitters.

Anyway, have a look back at them and hopefully you will see we were blissfully out of luck with what happened.

Cue angry comments back as people do on here without debating their point. Worth a watch.’

‘Wait, you’re being serious?’

‘On the balance of the match overall, do you think the result should have been anything other than a comfortable Newcastle win? We were never in it at all.’

‘Nope the mags played very well.’

‘To be clear, Newcastle had more possession, more shots, more passes, higher pass success rate, won more tackles, more touches in the box, won more “duels”, committed less fouls and yet you think we weren’t outplayed and out battled.

Happy to debate but I’m not sure there is a debate to have on this one.

Newcastle were pretty much better in all areas of the game.’

‘To claim Newcastle’s goals were “freakish” and to say we weren’t really outclassed where we could easily have lost by 7 or 8 is a heck of a take!’

‘Kinda why I didn’t agree that they outclassed us. They hadn’t, we just didn’t show up for a battle.

They were a big side physically but we didn’t stretch them with any quick passing and movement and just played into their hands with our efforts. We did however stop them actually calving us open. The goals weren’t exactly cutting us open. Isak didn’t have to move for his hattrick.

It was simply by us a bad day tactically.’

‘Agreed, four awful goals to concede.

The obvious problem was that they should have scored another five or so.’

‘Yes they should. When they did get us out of shape they missed 3 big chances. Gordon header was easy finish. Bruno managed to miss the goal and let us off. Isaks volley looked more like a pass back to the keeper than shot.

But as I said for all 4 goals we are generally in the correctly coached positions to minimise a chance and fair play to them they manufactured 4 correct decisions to get what they wanted.’

‘I’ve not watched the game back, highlights or even sky clips. It was bad enough suffering it live, let alone replaying the horror.

Regardless of how the goals came about, 7-0 or 8-0 would have been a better reflection of the chasm between the teams. Had they needed to they’d have got that too. As it was they rightly saved their legs for tougher challenges after an hour. We were lucky to get away with 4-0.

I have seen all the comments about tactics, mistakes, blame heaped on Muric, plan A, B and 23, missing Delap, positioning, you name it. Reality? Their team was organised, tight knit, knew exactly what to do in every situations. They were on form and had players far better than ours in every position, including the bench.

Watching the superb Tonali (£60m in 2023, worth a lot more now), Bruno G (£42m in 2022) dominate the middle and linking with the excellent £60m Izak, was the mismatch of all mismatches.’

‘Newcastle absolutely humbled us on Saturday from start to finish and we didn’t lay a glove on them. Bigger, faster, fitter, stronger, technically far superior. It really was like watching 2 sides in different leagues going at it and to some degree we are. Our front 4 looked like U19 football against seasoned pros, its so stark in the flesh.

If we’re to get any joy against these sorts of ‘top 6’ sides we probably need to be towards the top of our game, key players available, they need to be off their own, and we might need a slice of luck or a rub of the green too. On Saturday we had none of the above, we were off it collectively and individually, and they’re bang in form and purring.

When you look at sides like that Newcastle one when they’re playing like that I would argue there’s as big a gap or bigger between them and us as there is between us and a Plymouth with that line up. Not a single one of our starting XI would start for them. They made a triple substitution of players who would all have started for us on Saturday. The gap is enormous, that’s the harsh reality.

A bad day at the office against a very good side, that’s really the crux of it. We need to stay positive though, being competitive against Newcastle, Arsenal and Chelsea won’t define our season. What will is some of those we’ve already lost at home, and a number of those games to come.’

‘They wasted several better opportunities too, let’s be honest

The defending was a little bit green, I don’t think anyone can deny that but Newcastle forced that through pressure as much as anything

They overwhelmed us and had the quality to punish us, where others haven’t.’

‘Newcastle fans were the best we’ve had here for a very long while.’

‘Friendly, both before and after, got behind their team and even when they were cruising the game, didn’t stoop to the usual football in a library, bus-stop near Norwich or Ipswich is a s…hole dross that other away fans (ours included do).

Even walking down PR after the game, they just wanted to shake hands and say hard lines.’

‘Sung their hearts out from 26 seconds..’

‘They were noisy before the game too.’

‘Yea, cracking away support,.. just so Depressing to give them so Much to sing about so early on.’

‘Agreed. Palace fans were obsessed with criticising everything in their chants for some reason.

Newcastle supporters were terrific.

Just disappointed our fans didn’t really join in the Sir Bobby rounds which they started.’

‘I sit opposite the away fans and they are by far the best we’ve had down here. I thought they would be good and I said to my lad they’d be noisy. We were trying to count the number of (male) Newcastle fans swinging their shirts around their heads at one point as it was more entertaining than the football!’

‘3 coaches stopped at Stowmarket town FC. They spent the morning there drinking and would have tripled their home turnover for a home match, by all accounts they have were great guests.

I love they help a local club than some chain pub etc.’

Ipswich 0 Newcastle 4 – Saturday 21 December 3pm

(Stats via BBC Sport)

Goals:

Newcastle United:

Isak 1, 45+2, 50, Murphy 32

Ipswich:

(In brackets the half-time stats)

Possession was Newcastle 59% (52%) Ipswich 41% (48%)

Total shots were Newcastle 15 (10) Ipswich 10 (4)

Shots on target were Newcastle 7 (5) Ipswich 2 (1)

Corners were Newcastle 1 (0) Ipswich 2 (1)

Touches in the box Newcastle 35 (20) Ipswich 20 (10)

Dubravka, Livramento (Trippier 64), Schar, Burn, Hall, Tonali, Bruno (Miley 80), Willock (Longstaff 64), Murphy (Barnes 64), Isak (Almiron 73), Gordon

Unused Subs:

Vlachodimos, Targett, Osula, Kelly

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Newcastle United upcoming matches:

Thursday 26 December – Newcastle v Villa (3pm) Amazon

Monday 30 December – Man U v Newcastle (8pm) Sky Sports

Saturday 4 January – Tottenham v Newcastle (12.30pm) TNT Sports

Tuesday 7 January – Arsenal v Newcastle (8pm) Sky Sports and ITV1 and ITVX

Sunday 12 January – Newcastle v Bromley (3pm) BBC iPlayer (FA Cup)

Wednesday 15 January – Newcastle v Wolves (7.30pm) TNT Sports