Dan Thomas

So when you're watching Analyze Newcastle, I mean, Eddie Howe come up with a system today that backfired massively.

He played Joe Linton on the left wing.

He played Anthony Gordon as a number nine and Valterrata in midfield.

And it was like that got shelled and got abandoned after half an hour because it was a system and a personnel shift that no one saw coming.

It didn't work.

There was bits in the game where...

They didn't manage it.

I mean, when Newcastle scored, they give a goal straight away back within a minute.

They'd done that twice in the game.

The save from Pickford at the end, former Sunderland man, was an amazing save.

Reminded me of Neville Southall, that type of save.

But the worry for Newcastle is, Dan, they've always been strong at home.

And they've always been a little bit shoddy, especially this season away from home.

When you can't get away wins and you've lost three at home on the spin, it's time to worry.

It's not time to panic because I think Eddie Howe will go back to basics.

But it is a worry how a team that's trying to go deep against Barcelona in the Champions League or drifting towards the bottom end of the Premier League.

That's the worry.

I said I fancy them against Barcelona.

A kiss of death that was.

Barcelona's going... They can't... Defensively, they're all over the place.