Alan Shearer

He's a fantastic coach and his team deserve to take the three points at Newcastle today.

Yeah, it was one, Martinez had one really good save just before half-time, I think.

Yeah.

I think it was from Lewis Miley.

Lewis Miley.

What a save that was.

But yeah, Newcastle didn't have Bruno Guimaraes.

And I think there's a stat going around.

I think he's missed six or eight games, whatever it was.

But Newcastle haven't won without him in the team.

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.