A few words on Newcastle. Apart from a short spell where they passed the ball between themselves in triangles but standing still so not going anywhere they didn't play much football on the ground and the level of aimless hoofball was pretty shocking really. We were done by the law of averages with Saint Maximin, 90% of the time he runs at speed and has no end product whatsoever, 5% of the time he gets lucky and creates something only to mess it up, the other 5% of the time he is completely unstoppable. When he got the ball on the left it needed Long to rush forward to him and boot him in the stand.
Agree on your St. Maximin analysis - but by the 117th minute, Sam Long could barely walk. No way he had the energy to rush, catch and boot the Frenchman! Long had an epic game getting up and down the right flank, but his race was run by that point.
It is what it is.....by the end of extra time, Newcastle had a fresh, speedy and energetic winger running at an absolutely exhausted defense.
I don't blame anyone for that goal, I just think we were unfortunate that we ran into that 5% moment at exactly the wrong time.