We kicked off our Premier League season with three home games but we are now in a week that sees us play three successive away games which started at Salford on Tuesday and now moves up to Tyneside and our league game against Newcastle tomorrow.
We go into tomorrow?s game in 19th place in the table and I suppose we have Newcastle to thank for not currently being bottom. That?s where we were after last Saturday?s defeat to Manchester United. Only a defeat of six or more for Sheffield United at home to Newcastle could see them drop behind us and they did just that with Newcastle winning 8-0.
It?s a doubled edged sword of course. It means we take on a Newcastle team who are very much in form and they followed that with a League Cup victory against Manchester City. The start to the season continues to be difficult for us with just one point won from five games and that at Nottingham Forest in what is our only away game to date. I thought the concerns were building after the Spurs defeat but there has been a huge improvement over the past two games in terms of performances.
That started at Nottingham Forest where we would surely have won but for referee Robert Jones and his partner in crime Darren England on VAR. We couldn?t point fingers at the officials last week but the performance against Manchester United deserved so much more than the 1-0 defeat we had to take from it.
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