“Match Recap: Newcastle vs Manchester City” “Newcastle’s 1-1 draw with Manchester City: 3 positives (resilient defense, effective counter-attacks, and team spirit) and 3 negatives (possession struggles, wasteful finishing, and set piece vulnerabilities).

Saturday’s match ended Newcastle 1 Manchester City 1.

Ahead of each match we ask one of our writers to come up with three positives and three negatives following the game

Plenty to talk about after this one…

On this occasion it is ‘Matt Busby said to Joe Harvey…’:

POSITIVES

We went toe to toe with the champions

That was our best performance of the season.

The press was back, the passing was crisp and we defended well.

Man City have proven themselves over the past decade and more, as the best side in the country. That they’re defending 115 charges which question the basis upon which they’ve won that vast array of honours is something which we are yet to see the outcome of…

Newcastle United competed with a side that can bring talent like Phil Foden, Jeremy Doku and Savinho off the bench and in my opinion, NUFC were unlucky not to win.