Chapter 1: What happened in the Newcastle vs Brighton match?
It's finished goalless here at St. James' Park between Newcastle and Brighton. Frustration on the final whistle. Andy Carroll did make an appearance to rouse the home supporters, but no goal for him and no goal for either side, despite the fact that Brighton registered higher possession and a higher number of passes than they have managed in any Premier League game in which they played.
They didn't make it count, though. Let's get some reaction from man of the match Stephen Alzate on his Premier League debut and Lewis Dunk there with Greg Whelan.
Guys, well done today. Lewis, a missed opportunity or a good point here? Missed opportunity. You saw we dominated the game, the whole game. Obviously, they showed last five minutes they're going to stick Andy Carroll on and throw it on us, but we defended it well there. But we got to punish teams in the first half when we were that dominant.
Chapter 2: How did Andy Carroll's return impact the game?
We had so many chances and, yeah, it's frustrating today. Looking back, should you have been comfortably ahead after the first half an hour or so? Yeah, we should, and that's what we need to learn. We've improved, we're passing the ball well, dominating games, but now we need to kill teams off and punish them.
Steven, you were very much part of that on your Premier League debut. How much did you enjoy it out there today? It was an amazing feeling, obviously, getting an opportunity to start. Obviously, the gaffer has a lot of faith in me and I feel like I've been on the team since pre-season, so it wasn't anything strange. I felt comfortable.
Obviously, these are encouraging me all the time, so it felt good, yeah. How did you find the step up today? You were playing in League Two last season, weren't you? Yeah, it was a good experience for me. Obviously, playing men's football is very different to playing under-23s football. And obviously, now it's time to kick on. And yeah, I'm thankful for the opportunity.
Hopefully, I get many more games. You seem to have quite a free role up there, particularly in the first half.
Chapter 3: What were the missed opportunities for Brighton in the match?
What did the head coach say to you? What role did he ask you to play here today? I was playing left wing back, but he told me to get as high as possible, stretch the play, told me to be confident when I was on the ball, 1v1, just take on the man, but obviously defensively be solid as well, and that's what I did.
Lewis, how much did we see today, this evening, how much Graham Potter is trying to change things at Brighton and what he's trying to do?
I think you can see it's a big change. We're still adapting and I think that's probably the best we've dominated the game today. I think it's showing we're working hard and trained every week. We're working on teams and working on the way we want to play. So it shows out there today how much we've come on to control games and we just need to take it to that next level now and score the goals.
Last season was a bit of a fight to survive in the end, wasn't it? What do you feel this season has in store for you, playing this way?
Hopefully we won't be nail-biting stuff at the end of the season. Hopefully we'll be more comfortable and higher up the table where we want to be, and I think if we keep playing like this, we'll get there in the end.
Well, I know you want an expected three points, but well done on the one point and the clean sheet, of course. Stephen, you're the Premier League man of the match. Lewis, if you did the honours, please. Well done, guys. Thank you.
From the Brighton players to the Brighton head coach and Graham Potter joins us now. Graham, just listening to what the guys were saying there, they're saying if Brighton play like this for the rest of the season, it should be a bit more comfortable than it was last time around.
Are you looking at the performance after this or are you looking at the inability to turn that possession and that amount of forward play into goals?
Well, looking at both is the truth. I thought we played well. The performance was good. We did a lot of what we wanted to do. But at the same time, you're always disappointed when you don't feel that you get maybe the reward. But it's a point away from home and a difficult place to come. We're at the start of a process. We just need to keep moving forward.
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Chapter 4: How did Stephen Alzate perform on his Premier League debut?
You can talk about style and all that sort of stuff, but you have to be competitive in the games. In all the games, we have been, and we've performed well in all the games. And then the points, it's the toughest league in the world, and to get wins is a challenge, of course. We expect that.
But again, the performance is something that we can control, and we will try and improve on that, and hopefully the results come a bit better.
Graham, I thought you were excellent today. Last week at Burnley, unlucky not to get three points. Today, 71% possession, and it looks like the style of play, playing on the front foot, is something that you've really implemented well.
Well, there was a good foundation here with the work that Chris had done over the last four years, promotion and then to stabilise in the Premier League is not so easy. So there's a good group of players here, good spirit, good characters. And like anything, you're just trying to improve what happened before. They've taken on board what we're trying to do.
It's the Premier League, so you know every game is really, really difficult. But like I said, the response of the players has been really positive. They're trying their best. And we're happy with what we've done performance-wise. We'd just like a few more points.
When you arrived at the club, was that your brief to a certain extent to change the style of play? Or was it like, let's just stay in the Premier League? Or are you doing just how you always coach and how you manage?
I think the club made a decision to make a change and I sort of identified myself to come in and work how I've been working. It doesn't make sense to not be myself. So that's that. But of course, you all know that we know that the priority is to stay in the league as well. And then we want to try and build from there. It's such a tough competition. We know that.
But we want to try and think in the short term in terms of results and being competitive in the games and at the same time giving us something that can go forward in maybe the longer term.
I'm just thinking, as a manager, obviously, you've played so well, haven't got that goal. You look at the likes of Samson, come on, Andy Carroll, come on. How does that change your thinking as a manager? Obviously, when you've been so dominant, when you see these likes of players come on.
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Chapter 5: What changes is Graham Potter implementing at Brighton?
But at the same time, you need to be progressive with your possession. You can't just pass it around at the back and not go anywhere. But I thought we did. I thought we got into the opposition final third, into the box quite a few times. Some good opportunities. We just lacked that last little bit. But I think if we maintain the level and keep improving, we can get there.
Villa in the League Cup next, then Chelsea and Spurs. It doesn't get much easier, does it?
No, exactly. It's great. It's a fantastic challenge. All the games are a real test, but that's what you'd expect at this level. I'm lucky that I've got a good group of players that want to do their best to try every day, so we'll take the next challenge, which is Aston Villa.
Graeme, thanks very much for coming out to talk to us. Thank you. Thank you. I can take that from you if you like. Thank you very much. So, Graeme Potter's side coming away from St James' Park with a point. They're still unbeaten against Newcastle in the Premier League. What did you make of their performance, Jola?
Yeah, I think obviously from the Newcastle point of view, I think they'll be slightly disappointed, especially with that first half. We mentioned it at half-time. It just looked like Brighton were just the more dominant team. As I mentioned in there, they were all comfortable on the ball.
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Chapter 6: What are the expectations for Newcastle this season?
It seemed like they had too much time on the ball. And I think Newcastle, like we said, had to stop the game fast. And it was actually Brighton that did that. And you could see the timidity in the Newcastle side, obviously with the fans, with the crowd. They did the quiet in the crowd down and Brighton grew in confidence.
So it was pretty disappointing from a Newcastle point of view, but you flip it. Brighton were fantastic in that first half. You know, you look at the chances that they created, the way they got through the Newcastle side, I thought it was very impressive.
I couldn't agree more, Shola. I think what they've done is... I'm a big fan of Chris Hewitt and I think he did a great job. But you can really see there's a change happening at Brighton with the way that he wants to play, the style that they play. They're comfortable out playing out from the back. They pressurise teams in midfield and they're on the front foot.
You know, the way that even they play the three at the back, four at the back. They're so fluid in their movement. Maupai looked a really good striker as well. I was just very impressed because... To a certain extent, you need that striker that's mobile, and that's what they've got. And they've got a nice balance.
And already, although it's only six games in, they look like a really good side that will pick up a lot of points this season.
We're going to have more reaction to this game, but right now on Sky Sports Cricket and after us on Sky Sports Main Event, it's T20 Blast Final between Worcestershire and Essex coming to the end of Worcestershire's innings right now. So you can follow that on Main Event.
Or you can stay with us on Sky Sports Premier League, where we'll get Steve Bruce's thoughts on Newcastle's 0-0 draw against Brighton here at St James' Park. The goal is at St James' Park between Newcastle and Brighton, but the closest either side came to scoring was Aaron Connolly's attempt that was cleared off the line by Fabian Scheer. Did you think it was in?
I think the whole stadium thought it was in. This has to be one of the all-time great clearances in the Premier League. I mean, you look at that and you think it's a goal. And, you know, the fact that he's been able to not only just get back there, but hook it up, you know, out of the goal, it's incredible.
Like you say, that's probably the one chance that Brighton, click-up chance that Brighton created actually in the game.
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Chapter 7: How do Newcastle plan to improve their scoring chances?
But someone like him, you know, even Sam Maxman, when he came on, he looked dynamite. And he's the sort of player that when he come onto the pitch, he lifted the crowd and he can do something completely different.
Let's take a look at San Maximo. Why do you like him? What do you think he brings to the game for Newcastle?
Yeah, for me, you know, he's explosive. You know, when he came, obviously he got injured early on in pre-season, came back, got injured again at Tottenham. But you can see every time he gets the ball, he's positive with it. And, you know, he really lifted the team when he came onto the pitch. And I know he's a guy that Steve Bruce will want fit and ready to go, because he can create chances.
You can see with the way he plays, he wants to score goals, but he also can create. And I think he's the sort of player that we need to be really playing well.
You do, because whatever way you dress it up, it's not easy here. You've not got a crowd that have turned up in their droves. It's the lowest Premier League crowd that I think Newcastle have had. And they've got a manager that you feel, I mean, I'm a big, I like Steve Bruce, but it's going to be a difficult job for him. People say about, you know, as an example, Frank Lampard.
Yeah, Frank Lampard's got a tough job at Chelsea, you know, and I get that to a certain extent. This is the toughest job in the Premier League, bar none. If Newcastle are to stay up, it will be an incredible achievement because they're up against it in so many ways.
The players, the way that the crowd are, you know, all the other teams that they're fighting against, they've got the crowd on their side and you just feel that it's not quite happening like that here.
I think Steve Bruce said it when he first got the job, you know,
he's going to live and die on the strikers and the fact that you know how can we score enough goals to keep us in the premiership and I think and that's the you know that's the question that you know every manager wants to ask and Steve Booth is doing all he can obviously the introduction of Andy Carroll now you've still got Dwight Gill to come back in who's a finisher so there are strikers in there I just hope we can get them fit enough and for long enough so we can you know create chances and score goals
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Chapter 8: What are the key matchups for the upcoming Super Sunday?
But it just shows you there are players in the academy and Chelsea have had so many over the years that haven't been given an opportunity.
I think you're right there. You know, it's the fact that, you know... You get no time in the Premier League if you're not producing the results. You'll be out the door.
But I think the one key thing that Chelsea have done so well is allowed the players to go out on loan, the young players who they think are good enough, to go out and experience that environment of being in first-team environments, feeling the pressure of competitive football. And now they've come back. And I think it's here we've got the likes of Sean Longstaff who went out
he had two loans successful loans and he's come back he came back a better player and you look at what he did last season so it can work you know when teams invest in their academies and try and give them the right pathway to their first team I think it's a way forward it lifts the academy as well 100% absolutely everyone then believes all of a sudden Chelsea's now a place that any young player would want to be because they all believe there's a pathway to the first teams
So they've already played Liverpool, who are their opponents tomorrow in the Super Cup. Played well, but Liverpool got the win in that game on penalties. What happens? What does he do in this game, Frank Lampard? Does he go with experience or does he stick with the youth?
We've got to stick with the youth. They're leading the way. You know, of course, I think Rudiger's a huge player for them defensively. I know he had a little bit of a groin injury. He didn't play
in midweek he's the one that you'd want Mason Mount obviously and Kante they're important players that have had knocks Mason Mount picking up that nasty ankle injury but he hasn't been ruled out he's important but playing against the Liverpool side that you know they've got to try and almost capitalise on what happened in midweek with one or two players making uncharacteristic mistakes obviously Virgil van Dijk was one of them
and it's going to be a great game. I mean, it's one of those games as a player you want to play in, and Chelsea will believe. And Liverpool have had mixed results there. I think they drew last year, didn't they, with a last-minute Sturridge goal.
So it's going to be a really good game, and I think that Chelsea, under Frank, and I think Klopp gave him the ultimate compliment, that he reminds him of his Dortmund side, a young Dortmund side, and that is some compliment for Frank Lampard.
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