Well what a difference a few days can make! Apologies for not posting about this fantastic win till now but have been struck down ill for the last few days. Too much excitement with a brilliant performance from the boys obviously!
I'll be honest, Newcastle away is never an easy place to get a result and after the Reading fiasco I wasn't overly optimistic about it. But as always like a true bluenose I secretly fancied us to do something anyway and it turns out we did - and how!
The teamsheet before the game looked promising and was very pleased to see Neville restored to midfield and Hibbo to right back. I don't want to claim any credit ha ha but maybe Moyesy saw my last post on here?! The rest of the line up looked good too - was nice to see Mikel going out to the left to make way for Phil as I personally think he is better out there. He always seems to have more time and space to hurt the opposition on the flanks and hardly ever loses possession there.
Looks like Moyes got the team and tactics spot on this game as we were easily better than them and fully deserved the win. The first half didn't start too well having said that with Phil picking up a knock to the ribs - proof of a hard fought game as usual against the barcodes. Thankfully he was ok to carry on and we started brightly enough.Then, as if on cue, the defensive frailties that have plagued our season appeared to undo the good start. That cretin Nolan (he has got to be one of the dirtiest , annoying players currently playing!) got a shot in and it rebounded to their forward Best who nodded it in from close range. Bugger!
From then on they got into the game more and it looked like we could be in for a long afternoon. Was quite funny when Hibbo went through their fancy dan Guirerrez like a dose of salts. Take that my old son ha ha. We broke out quick after an attack from them broke down and Ossie fed it to Mikel who did really well to get it back into him. The finish from Ossie was even better - he went for placement and put it away superbly. Was pleased for Ossie as he gets a lot of stick but has been playing well the last few games.
We'd only just calmed down from that when we went and grabbed another one. We got a free kick which Baines whipped in superbly right in the corridor of uncertainty(copyright A Hansen BBC) and Jags steamed in round the back and put it home. Has Jags even ever scored before?! Good time for his first one anyway if not.
That was pretty much it for the first half although Phil had picked up a knock which meant Johnny Boy H was out for him in the second. Luckily it didn't affect the performance too much and we weathered the storm to hold out for the win. In fact we should really have won by more with King Louis and Beckford missing a good couple of chances each to seal it. In fact Beckford got the hook towards the end - his link up play had been a bit poor so maybe thats why Big Vic came on for him? Or maybe Moyesy just thought it would be funny to see Nolans reaction to him coming on with the court case thing between Vic and him. They did have a little set too but nothing too bad - certainly not like the last time when Nolan had absolutely caned Vic the twat.
All in all a really good performance and win for the boys and credit to Moyes too for the tactics and subs which worked well. Keep this up and we'll be in with a shout of europe next season wahey!
