Newcastle United Football Club

Before I start this isn't a me moaning. I couldn't be happier how well we have done this season. This is just an observation.

Alot of our success comes from our right side with these clever triangles between trippier, almiron and bruno/longstaff, however, it looks like this year teams have figured this out and are quick to close these spaces out. Leading to us switching the ball backwards and trying to go down the left where 9 times out of 10 ASM runs into 4 players.

It is also very irritating to see us get in a good position on the right and not cross the ball. Almrion doesn't have a right foot and trippier seems to always try pass backwards because he delays to long waiting for almirons run.

Wilson has had the finger pointed at him a few times, but honestly he's feeding off scraps.

So whats the problem? here goes....

Dan Burn is a class cb, but brings so much unbalance to our team playing left back. He's not quick enough defensively and well going forward he's what you'd expect for a 6'7 cb.

This in turn also hurts Saint maximum. No link up play on the left meaning he tries doing too much on his own.

I honestly think targett being put back in the team will offer alot more variety offensively and in turn allow ASM more freedom and stop us being so dependant on that right side.

Just my thoughts.