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Not sure how we don't get a free kick there.

Tielemans upset that we've not been linked with him enough.

Big Joe!!! Quality winning of the corner Trippier, then a quality corner put away by Joelinton making their defense look woeful.

As well as waiting for a manager since Bruce was signed.

Nice save Pope after a perfectly weighted through ball to Daka.

Bruno's waggling finger well justified after what looked a fair tackle.

He's just powering up by absorbing a few kicks.

Best give it another reboot or two in case it needs an update

Looking a little rusty but I'll take it. 😉

Honestly that movement and finish from Miggy was top notch.

Hahah beautiful stuff, Miggy!!@ picked up where we left off amazingly

Nice pen Wood. One of our favourite referees, Jarred, calling a clear penalty early.

Joe! 😁

Club very clear to distinguish that's he's unwell rather than injured.

Hope you're not referring to the kids.

If I was Eddie I'd not be super happy about it. And it needs more Bruno these days!

Merry Christmas to you all, love this place even if you lot completely forgot me in a heartbeat when the board disappeared. One day I'll come to Newcastle for a game or two and will fully expect the black and white carpet to be rolled out for me.

This is a bit scary.

I can complain - what's all this talk doing in the generic small time football thread? I know we now consider the League Cup to be small time, but we're still it in so surely this should be in the Generic NUFC chat thread?

I can't predict our game because of this, always have that feeling even more now on the back of the World Cup break. So glad we had that cup game.

Then the non-giving of the clear handball was just as bad.

Getting shit calls and still winning; who are we? The clean sheet is key IMO as it will be on our defensive fortitude that we make our push for a champion's league spot. Even though we've scored plenty of goals thus far I can see them drying up a little, particularly after the shit World Cup may have put the breaks on our offensive cohesiveness and the hot form of some of our players (Miggy, I'm looking at you here). No injuries too.

Can you imagine the strop both of them will have had with Argentina and Messi winning. This picture is probably downplaying the reality.

at the protection of time on cultural insensitivity. Also, reported.