Alan Shearer

So that tells you how important he is.

Villa had the spark, Villa had the piece of quality from Buendia to get the goal.

They had the constant energy from Watkins and Newcastle didn't have the quality in the final third to upset them.

And that's a huge concern because the forwards have been nowhere near good enough for Newcastle this season.

Yeah, they haven't got that... They're missing that piece of...

brilliant or that spark, you know, something like Buendia did today, you know, something very special just to change that, just to change the game, you know, and they haven't had enough of that, anywhere near enough of that this season and it's a bit of a concern, yeah, and Joe Linton went off injured, so if he's injured and Bruno's injured for the match in Paris, yeah, it's not, it's...

It was a hard watch again today.

Konca at the back's brilliant as well.

Very, very good.

Impressive.

Can they win the league, Al?

It's not impossible.

No, it's not, but I would still say that the other two, I mean...

As I said, I've been really impressed and was today.

The way they turned up and the energy that they had at Newcastle after coming from Turkey on Thursday night, winning as well.

But Emery will be more than happy with everyone keeps saying, and he says it himself, they're not in the title race, so he'll want us to keep saying that.

But that doesn't stop us seeing how impressed we are with them.

Well, I think one of your first meetings is one of the most important ones, is the first time you address the players and not only in the dressing room, but then out on the pitch and how and what you're going to do and how you get your point over, how you talk, all of those things.

Perfect.

I think so.