McClaren Told Players To Hang On Rather Than Win

Last updated : 27 September 2015 By Footy Mad - Editor

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Steve McClaren is still looking for his first league win, but he was able to take positives from a vastly-improved display in which summer signing Aleksandar Mitrovic played a significant role on his return from suspension.

McClaren said: "It's difficult to know what to think after that, and then you have got to try to come back down and put it into some kind of perspective, and that's what we must do, put it in perspective in terms of performance, in terms of reaction and in terms of what we have got.

"What you got was a collective togetherness, which we talked about a lot, and that wasn't just the players and the dressing room and the staff, that was the supporters because after this week, the supporters could have just waited and seen what was going to happen.

"But they didn't, they responded from the first whistle and that's what's unique about this football club, this set of fans, and the players responded and gave a performance which was more like what we want - attitude, character, organised, really disciplined and courage to play, and we played some good football.

"In the end, we could have won it; in the end, we could have lost it. With five or six minutes to go, the momentum had swung and (we had) to hang on in there.

"Yes, it was a good display, but that's the benchmark now, that's the standard."

 

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NEWCASTLE UTD 0 SHEFF WED 1

1. Tim Krul   
22. Daryl Janmaat  45' 
15. Jamaal Lascelles   
6. Mike Williamson   
18. Chancel Mbemba   
8. Vurnon Anita   
5. Georginio Wijnaldum   
20. Florian Thauvin  45' 
7. Moussa Sissoko   
14. Gabriel Obertan  71' 
10. Siem de Jong   
Subs
2. Fabricio Coloccini   
11. Yoan Gouffran   
17. Ayoze Perez  45' 
21. Rob Elliot   
36. Ivan Toney  71' 
43. Kevin Mbabu  45' 
47. Daniel Barlaser  

Lewis McGugan piled further misery on Steve McClaren as Sky Bet Championship Sheffield Wednesday dumped Barclays Premier League Newcastle out of the Capital One Cup.

A Wednesday side featuring 10 changes to the one which started Saturday's 3-2 victory over Fulham secured a famous 1-0 victory at St James' Park with the Magpies, who have publicly reversed their recent policy of dismissing the domestic cup competitions as an irrelevance, turning in another dreadful display.

McClaren's men did not manage a single shot of note on target over 90 soul-sapping minutes and have now won just one of the eight games they have contested so far this season with League Two Northampton their only victims in the last round of the same competition.

The former England manager fielded as strong a team as he dared, but having insisted in recent weeks that he has enough strikers with the club having not pushed home their interest in QPR's Charlie Austin during the summer, started without any of them.

His hands were tied to a degree with Aleksandar Mitrovic completing his three-match ban and Papiss Cisse and Emmanuel Riviere injured, but with Ayoze Perez sitting on the bench, it was number 10 Siem de Jong who was asked to lead the line.

Not unexpectedly, it was a task which proved beyond the Holland international as ponderous build-up and woeful service shackled the Magpies during the opening 45 minutes.

Moussa Sissoko, one of the few men to inject any pace into the game, if only fleetingly, saw an 11th-minute shot clip the outside of goalkeeper Joe Wildsmith's far post, and it took defender Tom Lees' intervention to prevent De Jong from converting the Frenchman's 30th-minute cross.
 
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For their part, the visitors grew in confidence as the half wore on with both Marco Matias and Jeremy Helan testing Tim Krul from distance, while Lees headed a McGugan corner dangerously back across the face of goal 10 minutes before the break.

McClaren's players, who had earlier been exhorted to "attack, attack, attack, attack, attack", returned after the break without skipper-for-the-night Daryl Janmaat, who had been taken ill, and Florian Thauvin as Kevin Mbabu was handed a debut and Perez was belatedly introduced, allowing De Jong to return to more familiar territory.

But Wednesday were looking increasingly threatening on the break and Krul was relieved to see Modou Sougou fire wide of the far post after blocking his initial 64th-minute effort.

Perez hit the side-netting after turning smartly on Sissoko's pass four minutes later, but it was the visitors who took the lead with 14 minutes remaining when the home side failed to deal with a ball into the box and when it broke to McGugan, he drilled it past Krul.

It could have been even worse for Newcastle had Krul not turned Lucas Joao's header on to the crossbar with substitute Sergio Bus hitting the same part of the woodwork with his follow-up three minutes later, but De Jong passed up two late opportunities to spare their blushes.

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NEWCASTLE UNITED

Fri 10th July (8pm BST)

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Gateshead FC 0 Newcastle Utd 1 (Cisse pen)

(First half): Darlow, Janmaat, Haidara, Lascelles, Williamson, Anita, Colback, Gouffran, Cisse, Sissoko, De Jong. (Second half): Woodman, Bigirimana, Satka, Good, Ferguson, Tiote, Obertan, Aarons, Perez, Armstrong, Riviere.

Tue 14th July (8pm CT)

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Club Atlas (MEX) 2 Newcastle Utd 1 (Sissoko)

Krul (Darlow 46); Janmaat (Bigirimana 72), Williamson, Lascelles, Haidara (Ferguson 72); Anita, Colback; Sissoko (Obertan 72), de Jong (Perez 72), Gouffran (Aarons 72); Cisse (Armstrong 72).

Sat 18th July (8pm UTC)

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Sacramento Republic FC (USA) 0 Newcastle Utd 1 (og)

Krul (Woodman 46), Janmaat, Williamson, Lascelles (Taylor 46), Haïdara, Anita, Colback, Sissoko, Obertan (Aarons 69), de Jong (Perez 69), Cissé (Wijnaldum 69).

Tue 21st July (7.30pm UTC)

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Portland Timbers (USA) 4 Newcastle Utd 3 (Wijnaldum, Aarons 2)

Darlow (Woodman 46), Bigirimana, Satka, Ferguson, Aarons; Abeid (Anita 65), Wijnaldum (Janmaat 46), Gouffran (De Jong 76), Sissoko (Obertan 46), Ayoze, Cisse (Armstrong 46).

Sun 26th July (1pm BST)

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Sheffield United 2 Newcastle Utd 2 (Wijnaldum, de Jong)

Krul, Janmaat, Williamson, Taylor (Lascelles 69), Haïdara, Anita (Obertan 59), Colback, Sissoko (Abeid 80), Wijnaldum (De Jong 73), Perez (Aarons 45), Cissé (Armstrong 80)

Wed 29th July (7.45pm BST)

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 York City 2 Newcastle Utd 1 (Perez)

Darlow (Elliot HT); Bigirimana, Lascelles, Satka, Ferguson; Abeid, Gouffran; Aarons (Kemen 59), De Jong, Perez; Mitrovic (Suddick 70)

Sat 1st August (3pm BST)

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Newcastle Utd 0 Borussia Mönchengladbach 1

Krul, Janmaat (Mbemba 62), Williamson, Taylor, Haïdara, Anita (De Jong 75), Colback, Sissoko (Perez 81), Obertan (Aarons 62), Wijnaldum, Cissé (Mitrovic 62).

 

Sunday August 9

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NEWCASTLE UTD 2 SOUTHAMPTON 2 (Cisse, Wijnaldum)

Krul, Janmaat, Mbemba, Coloccini, Haidara; Colback, Anita (Tiote, 67); Sissoko, Wijnaldum (De Jong, 81), Obertan; Cisse (Mitrovic, 75). Subs not used: Darlow, Taylor, Aarons, Perez.

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Saturday August 15

SWANSEA CITY 2 NEWCASTLE UTD 0

Krul, Janmaat, Mbemba, Coloccini, Haidara, Anita, Colback, Sissoko (45' Taylor), Wijnaldum, Obertan (82' Mitrovic), Cisse (54' Aarons). Subs: Williamson, Perez, Tiote, Darlow

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Saturday August 22

MANCHESTER UTD 0 NEWCASTLE UTD 0

Krul, Mbemba, Taylor, Coloccini, Haidara, Anita, Colback, Perez (78' Tiote), Wijnaldum, Obertan (69' Thauvin), Mitrovic (88' Cisse).
Subs: Williamson, de Jong, Aarons, Darlow 

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Tuesday August 26 

NEWCASTLE UTD 4 NORTHAMPTON TOWN 1 (Thauvin, Janmaat, de Jong, Williamson

Darlow, Janmaat, Lascelles, Williamson, Haidara (78' Toney), Tiote, Gouffran, Aarons, de Jong, Thauvin (65' Mitrovic), Perez (72' Colback).
Subs: Dummett, Wijnaldum, Mbemba, Elliot.   

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Saturday August 29

NEWCASTLE UTD 0 ARSENAL 1

Krul, Janmaat, Mbemba, Coloccini, Haidara, Anita (72' Perez), Sissoko (78' Cisse), Wijnaldum, Thauvin (87' de Jong), Mitrovic   
Subs: Obertan, Tiote, Darlow, Taylor  

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Monday September 14

WEST HAM UTD 2 NEWCASTLE UTD 0

Krul, Janmaat, Mbemba, Coloccini, Haidara, Anita (60' de Jong), Colback, Sissoko, Wijnaldum (79' Aarons), Thauvin (60' Perez), Cisse    Subs: Gouffran, Obertan, Lascelles, Darlow  

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Saturday September 19

NEWCASTLE UTD 1 WATFORD 2

Krul, Janmaat, Mbemba, Coloccini, Haidara (80' Aarons), Wijnaldum, Colback, Thauvin (88' Obertan), Sissoko, Perez, Cisse (45' de Jong)
Subs: Williamson, Anita, Lascelles, Elliot

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Wednesday September 23

NEWCASTLE UTD 0 SHEFF WED 1 (League Cup)

Krul, Janmaat (45' Mbabu), Lascelles, Williamson, Mbemba, Anita, Wijnaldum, Thauvin (45' Perez), Sissoko, Obertan (71' Toney), de Jong   
Subs: Coloccini, Gouffran, Elliot, Barlaser 

Saturday September 26

17:30 Newcastle United v Chelsea

Saturday October 3

15:00 Manchester City v Newcastle United

Sunday October 18

16:00 Newcastle United v Norwich City

Sunday October 25

12:00 Sunderland v Newcastle United

Saturday October 31

15:00 Newcastle United v Stoke City

Saturday November 7

12:45 Bournemouth v Newcastle United

Saturday November 21

15:00 Newcastle United v Leicester City

Saturday November 28

15:00 Crystal Palace v Newcastle United

Saturday December 5

15:00 Newcastle United v Liverpool

Saturday December 12

15:00 Tottenham v Newcastle United

Saturday December 19

15:00 Newcastle United v Aston Villa

Saturday December 26

15:00 Newcastle United v Everton

Monday December 28

15:00 W Brom v Newcastle United