Rory Fitzgerald

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Remember when Arsenal fans were telling everyone about Saka's injury and his impact on the their title challenge. He got injured on 21st December when they beat Crystal Palace. But yet the League table was; Liverpool 39pts Played 16 Chelsea 35pts Played 17 Arsenal 33pts Played 17

Win your home games. Newcastle would rather be playing away to any other team.

You're a bad bad BAD man

A draw is a fine result today - I don't care if we concede in the last minute or equalise in the last minute. A 9 point lead with Arsenal having 12 games to make it up, is a big lead. Even if Arsenal had 3 games in hand, I'd rather have the 9 points on the board. We will have 7 home games after that (incl. Arsenal), with 4 away. Arsenal have 6 home games and 6 away games (incl. Liverpool). Win the home games and draw the away games and we'll be fine.

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7th vs 1st 2nd vs 4th It’s a genuine 6 point swing possibility this weekend. We could stretch to 8 or 9 points if arsenal draw or lose. Or could be pulled in to 3-4 if we draw or lose.

To be honest Hassony, I just don't get time to look at football as much. But when I do get a little bit of time and there is some good footage out there, I try to look for a few things and put them in here.

There is a clip online that shows all the play between the 2 goals. When the players were returning to the halfway line, you can just about see the Liverpool management team waving and gesticulating. That then results in alot of the players waving their arms and signalling to each other. All players are in our half but Mo Salah labours getting back across the half way line and even has the ref urging him to speed things up, with Mo then putting his arms out wide as if to say "What ?!?" - I reckon he was buying time for the team to get set up. Ultimately, it looks like that we went 5-4-1 with Gravenberch dropping in beside Konate. Konate remaining on the outside to the attack the kick off. Chiesa, I think, was supposed to be RM with Nunez LM and Salah upfront with Elliott and Jones in CM. However, Chiesa cant get across. But once the game does kick off, his movement is to get to the right side of the pitch. In all the emotion, I think its a couple of seconds when management and the players had to get back into "game mode" and quickly figure out the way to set up and ensure the lead was defended.

Brentford vs City was an end-to-end ping pong game. 39 shots on goal - Brentford 18-21 Man City Alot of Brentford's shots came down their right, what would be our left. How the right of Brentford looks vs the left of Liverpool Right - Brentford rank 3rd highest in attacking down their right Right - Brentford rank only 9th though in shots take from right Left - Only West Ham have conceded a higher percentage of shots down their left than Liverpool i.e. we are 2nd worst In home games, Brentford rank as the #1 team (worst) where the play happens in their 3rd. For the last screenshot, I show how Brentford decided to press City when the keeper had the ball at his feet. They seemed to go man-to-man. 3 at the back, 4 across the middle and 3 up top doing the pressing and cutting off the passing lanes. This could be a game with alot of running in it.

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What it said to me is that I think it speaks to their "application" - so if they can win the arm wrestle in 80% of games so that they score the 1st goal, then they must approach games in the right mindset. And mindset for us fans is what we all want - we hate us finding ourselves in a position whereby the opposition manages to take the lead.

Part of Forest's success is underpinned by their ability to get ahead in the game. They rank #1 when it comes to scoring 1st. In 16 out of 20 games, they have scored the first goal. We are not even 2nd (Arsenal and Fulham are 2nd at 13). Its quite impressive that they have scored 1st in 80% of their games after playing every team. Away game, night time, don't start slow, don't concede the 1st goal, don't rely on our 2nd half form. That said, I am quite positive for this game because of the "reaction" factor combined with the significance of the game and when you put those 2 together, I hope the team will revert to true colours but put them on show from the 1st minute in the 1st half.

The twitter account has already sent out a frosty tweet, lovely