Crystal Palace 1 Newcastle 1 – Saturday 30 November 3pm
Instant fan / writer reaction from some of our regular contributors on The Mag.
Billy Miller:
‘You’re going to struggle to win with 1 shot all game and that not even on target.
Somehow we almost did.
Guehi, showing his desperation to be a Newcastle player, stuck one in his own net.
The gift didn’t inspire an improvement though and Palace levelled in stoppage time.
Palace aren’t a team I particularly mind but it would be some comeuppance for Parish if they went down and sold Guehi to us for half what we bid this summer.
Important not to lose back to back games but this one will feel like a loss when we were just minutes from making it 4 wins from our last 5.
Isak injured, Liverpool next.
Not ideal but I have faith we’ll be a lot better on Wednesday.’
Nat Seaton:
‘The 3 points were there to be taken and so disappointing to concede so late on.
We battled away in the first half without being at our best.
We improved in the second half and a great setplay move let to Guehi’s own goal.
Leaving the ground it feels like a defeat, but considering we are not playing at our best maybe a point away in London I should be feeling differently, it’s just so hard to take so late on!’
Bazoox:
‘Isak gets withdrawn. We have two strikers on the bench in Wilson and Osula.
Harvey Barnes comes on and Anthony Gordon goes through the middle.
I was slightly confused.
Wilson and Osula aren’t trusted?
Maybe we should also contemplate flogging Isak if the price is right after all, if we cannot even provide adequate back up if he gets a niggle?
We could buy three hungry young strikers with that sort of money.
Wilson eventually came on for Gordon with a quarter of an hour to play.
Everything is now beginning to look like it needs a total and substantial reboot.
Ironically, we took the lead thanks to an own goal by a defender we tracked with no luck for the best part of last summer.
I’ve just got to now put my trust in Paul Mitchell sorting things out in the next few transfer windows.
Another game and another kick in the Henry Halls.’
David Punton:
‘Where do you start with this one?
We had one shot all game and nearly won it but for a shattering leveller deep into stoppage time.
That stings, but such was the performance you almost have to be happy with a point here, right?
Palace have been struggling but we’ve been terrible since the international break.
We lost Isak after 22 minutes and yet we somehow had the lead when the player we almost signed in the summer (Marc Guehi) put through his own net.
Would have been a heck of an irony had we of held on, but we didn’t.
Disappointing and we need to improve.’
GToon:
‘Eddie seems a lovely bloke and just the kind of person you want as the public face of your club.
However, he isn’t good enough.
We need a better manager like Rafa, who understands tactics, that stretch beyond the left wing and just running around a lot.
I haven’t thought Eddie was the right person to take us to the next level since the unforgivable 10 man liVARpool debacle last season and nothing has changed my mind this season.
We’d replace a player with a better one so why not a manager?’
Matt Busby said to…:
‘What an absolute sickener.
Thought we had all three points in the bag after some brilliant game management from 75 minutes.
Oh well, it’s only Liverpool next up.’
Tony Mallabar:
‘Well that certainly told me as, I left early and missed Palace’s equaliser.
Another poor first half and Eddie’s bizarre decision not to bring on Wilson for the injured isak.
Bruno and tonali aren’t gelling yet and it’s another 2 points dropped against a bottom 3 team.’
Jamie Smith:
‘I mean it’s always a sickener to have that.
It was a measured away performance but fairly par for the course.
Inability to create and score chances, emphasised by the fact that 0 shots on target were registered despite scoring through the slightly ironic method of a Guehi own goal.
I said in an article this morning that the slightly fragile feel about the place seems headed for mid-table, with two sides playing tomorrow that can put us in the bottom half.
Thought Tonali was brilliant and Dan Burn underlined his importance to the team with a welcome return.
Palace will likely rue the missed chances, like the one he kicked off the line.
If Isak has a knock, keep him back for the cup game, the mid-table battle can wait.’
Crystal Palace 1 Newcastle 1 – Saturday 30 November 3pm
(Stats via BBC Sport)
Goals:
Newcastle United :
Guehi OG 53
Palace:
(Half-time stats in brackets)
Possession was Newcastle 51% (57%) Palace 49% (43%)
Total shots were Newcastle 1 (1) Palace 16 (5)
Shots on target were Newcastle 0 (0) Palace 4 (0)
Corners were Newcastle 9 (3) Palace 8 (3)
Touches in the box Newcastle 10 (5) Palace 27 (7)
Newcastle United team v Crystal Palace:
Pope, Livramento, Schar, Burn, Hall, Tonali, Bruno, Willock (Longstaff 75), Gordon (Wilson 75), Isak (Barnes), Joelinton
Unused Subs:
Dubravka, Trippier, Osula, Jacob Murphy, Almiron, Kelly
(Marc Guehi scores for United but late disaster throws two points away – Crystal Palace 1 Newcastle 1 – Read HERE)
Newcastle United upcoming matches confirmed to end of January 2025:
Wednesday 4 December – Newcastle v Liverpool (7.30pm) Amazon
Saturday 7 December – Brentford v Newcastle (3pm)
Saturday 14 December – Newcastle v Leicester (3pm)
Wednesday 18 December – Newcastle v Brentford (7.45pm) Sky Sports+ (Carabao Cup)
Saturday 21 December – Ipswich v Newcastle (3pm)
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
Wednesday 15 January – Newcastle v Wolves (7.30pm) TNT Sports
Saturday 18 January – Newcastle v Bournemouth (12.30pm) TNT Sports
Saturday 25 January – Southampton v Newcastle (3pm)