The Magpies will entertain the reigning Barclays Premier League champions on Saturday evening still looking for their first league win of the campaign and having been dumped out of the Capital One Cup on their own pitch by Sky Bet Championship Sheffield Wednesday.
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1 and 2 – Last season’s league positions of Newcastle’s next two opponents.
Mike Ashley is not known for sacking his Managers too quickly and is likely to give the former Derby and Wolfsburg boss plenty of time but in truth it is hard to see what success looks like for Newcastle.
Newcastle United legend Micky Quinn has delivered a damning verdict on the club’s current struggles, saying they have the “wally with the brolly” and not the man who succeeded overseas in new manager Steve McClaren.
Yes we’ve had a tough start but that’s no excuse for some of the displays but the players have to take the brunt of the responsibility, majority probably already know where their futures lie.
Newcastle were booed from the field at both the half-time and full-time whistles against Wednesday, and while Krul is urging the Newcastle fans to get behind the team on Saturday, he admits that he and his team-mates have to start giving the supporters something to shout about.
“People say it’s a crisis and it’s getting very close to it. We deserve to be criticised”.
After back-to-back league defeats to Crystal Palace and Everton, Chelsea have won three successive games in all competitions- scoring 10 and conceding just one in the process.
“We are changing a lot”.
“We blocked the way that Newcastle usually play to attack and at the same time, we tried to create problems for the Newcastle defence. You have got to come out on Saturday and be a fighter”.
“Whilst you may be exhausted of hearing this, I believe, as we have said from the start, all of this rebuilding and reshaping isn’t something that can happen overnight; it will take time to see the benefit of the changes we made during the summer”. Since last November this club has won five in 32.
“We have said to the players, ‘You can’t feel sorry for yourselves”. After a break of over nine years between Premier League jobs, this was supposed to be McClaren’s shot at redemption.
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Key Player: Eden Hazard – The Chelsea superstar needs to kick on from netting his first goal of the season last weekend against Arsenal and show why he is so highly regarded. “They gave 100 per cent, so I am very happy with them”.
