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Not quite, I'd imagine it was more the mentality of 'you score 4, we score 5', fun times those crazy Ozzie tacticsThe 'You score 5 we score 4' mentality..
Not quite, I'd imagine it was more the mentality of 'you score 4, we score 5', fun times those crazy Ozzie tacticsThe 'You score 5 we score 4' mentality..
Too many egos and also we lacked balance in the team. We had amazing center backs but average fullbacks, and with Paulo Sousa becoming a permanent injured player we lost the only top quality defensive midfielder we had. They still managed to make a very solid Euro 2000. Nuno Gomes was a solid forward but not a player that would score that many goals unfortunately.Portugal's Figo generation
Barton was 15 when Keegan left Newcastle, and Shearer was never part of the most entertaining team. He only played 18 games under Keegan.Keegan's Newcastle was something else, especially given how squad rotation wasn't really a thing yet.
I remember thinking at the time that a attacking suite of Shearer, Les Ferdinand, Asprilla, Beardsley and Ginola was impossibly stacked.
Yes, it was top heavy. Players like Barton, Albert, Lee, Gillespie and Batty were good players but no more than that. And of those five top attacking players, 2 of them were often warming the bench.
Still, on their day Newcastle were as exciting to watch as anyone.
But it wasn't an exciting team. Only in 2018, I remember the team was able to dominate and play fun games (for me the best side in the WC) . On 2014 and 2016, it was a boring team, centered around defense and physicality.Biased of course, but they have to be up there.
Hazard, De Bruyne, Courtois, Kompany, Vermaelen, Vertonghen, Alderweireld, Mertens, Lukaku, Witsel, Dembélé, Fellaini, Carrasco... We'll never get a squad like that again, although the youngsters coming through the ranks are excellent too.
Combination of a terrible manager in Wilmots for years (EC loss against Wales in 2016 was entirely on him), bad luck/inexperience on that level (imo undeserved 1-0 loss against France on the WC 2018)...
Warren Barton you plum.Barton was 15 when Keegan left Newcastle.
Warren Barton you plum.