I am hoping that Newcastle’s new style of play with high line and pressing will suit us nicely on the counter attack. We always struggle against teams who sit back against us.

Platini couldn’t tackle a fish supper and he wasn’t bad either.

A very important 3pts yesterday and some solid performances. The one true bit of quality won the game.

Although the game wasn't too exciting yesterday, the tactics were intriguing. Roy changed the starting line up to a 451/4231 accommodating Eze in a central position. Something a lot of fans have wanted, myself included. He then didn't make much of an impact and we reverted to 442 at half time with him back out on the left. Low and behold he then scores the match winner after drifting in from the wing.

From Roy's post match press conference it sounds as though we'll work more on the 451 from the first half. I believe Riedewald being included will be key as he's more likely to find the key passes through to Eze in the middle. Which we lacked in the first half partly down to our own failures but also Wolves play a very deep and compact system.

Anyways great to get a win and comforting to know we're open to playing more than one system.

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Moving Eze to central mid field and having wing backs worked well and lead to the goal. I don’t understand why Bats and Clyne were substituted and RH reverted to 4-4-2 by bringing on Townsend and Ward. Bats does have an attitude problem but I thought he didn’t have a bad game and his offsides weren’t so much of a problem in addition he has pace that Ayew and Benteke lack.

I thought the pass of the game was played by McCarthy to PVA (who I thought was better yesterday) bursting through. Looks like he will be out for a while again though.

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