Newcastle in today’s match played very well and managed to beat Chelsea 4-1, felt like an easy way and they might now hope to win the next upcoming match in UCL, the only issue they had this edition is a matter of luck on the group they are playing against now is full of good teams in UCL pot.
Newcastle, In my opinion they should focus a bit on champions league and do better performance to compete against strong teams.
Champions league been always another story even for big players and teams in general, it’s a whole different competition which lead to unexpected performance from the teams.
Newcastle have just been inconsistent in the recent times. Otherwise they have been doing quite an impressive work for 2 seasons despite not having a squad filled with world star players. I mean they are very rich now. They are one of the richest teams in Europe you know. But despite finishing the Premier League in top 4 previously they are still unable to bring much bigger players to the team.
The work they have done in the Champions League so far isn't that bad either. I didn't like their performance only against Dortmund. If they were more stable with their effort then maybe they would have collected more points there.
Yes, Newcastle has the money, at least to a reasonable extent that they can buy players, yet you can't blame them for trying to pocket most of it, as winning is important, making money and conserving as much as possible is also important, just like how Dortmund does. The side effect of this is at times when the trusted players don't live up to the expectations, there are times they will perform beyond expectations too. So, I don't blame clubs anymore for not buying big names, you can use the cases of Man U and Chelsea to judge why, at times it's not the star of the player but the quality and how the player is determined to deliver. Besides, I've always known that Newcastle can not deliver when it comes to UCL and I didn't expect them to displace Dortmund in UCL who has the experience of the tournament more than them.
This is not the entire yardstick to judge, regardless, the Newcastle of last season is not the same as this season, even before the last season ended their feats have been dwindling if you noticed. They were however impressive yesterday, I never knew they could beat Chelsea powerlessly like that. Most importantly, Chelsea doesn't have any excuses as the game was balanced with 1-1 in the first half but Newcastle was obviously better in the second half and only scored one goal more after Chelsea's red card, so no excuse for the blues. But still, this can't tell of what happens in the UCL, I don't think Newcastle can go farther than they are, and I expect AC Milan to still beat them overall when they meet.