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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayur Akimwaleri.

Tuesday nights saw goals galore in the Premier League.

Nine at Craven Cottage, including Horland's 100th,

and the last minute equaliser earning Spurs a point at St James's Park.

But it's more drop points for Newcastle, while Spurs struggle to

create chances. So what is going on? Well, let's break it down. With us today, we have a full

house, Chris Wath, Charlie Eccleshire, Dan Kilpatrick, and later on we're going to be joined by

Jordan Campbell, who witnessed some of Holland's magic in Manchester City's 5-4 win against Fulham. Right, Chris, we have to start a St James's Park. I know you

were there. You watched it. Oh, right the way through. It's spectacular, and it's the captain

again. Where did that one come from? A strike that any striker would have been proud of? It was a dramatic second half, thank goodness, because the first half was a bit dire, but that's now 11 points dropped from winning positions for Newcastle, the joint most in the league. That's not good to hear, is it? It's not, I mean, you described Romero's equalizer, second equalizer, as an overhead kick. And I mean, I almost think it does a disservice to every single other overhead kick that's ever been scored. Because it can be described as a rubbish overhead kick? I mean, just nothing about that goal, certainly from any Castle perspective, was good. It looks rather shambolic air that he was able to get in the room to, well, first of all, the cross that isn't dealt with properly by Ramsdale so he punches the ball up in the air, then he has loads of room Romero to get there, swivel up and then get his contort his body to direct it towards goal. It goes through about three bodies before then seemingly surprising Ramsdale and going beyond them as well. So very frustrating for Newcastle. They'd already got themselves ahead

twice and conceded twice against a side. I only had two shots on target. It's shown absolutely

no ambition whatsoever. But already this season, Newcastle had thrown away draws against Liverpool

and Arsenal at home conceding in injury time. And then, yeah, it's 11 points dropped from

winning positions

now in the Premier League and Eddie Howe contributed that by switching to three at the back

brought on Fabian shared almost invited spurs on and that pressure on and given maybe the psychological

effect of Newcastle dropping previous leads in this sole position it just felt very

frustrating after they've won back-to-back Premier League games for the first time this season, having won the first away match of the season at Everton at the weekend, but they just can't get positive momentum on a regular basis in the Premier League at the moment. And it just, yeah, it's sort of summed up their season a little bit that game because they could and should have had more from it, but fundamental shortcomings

have cost them. Yeah, I mean, give him some dues, give Romero some dues, Charlie. Come on, man.

Two shots, two goals, bang. Some might call that efficiency. I mean, he was the one that

drag Spurs back into this and actually actually inevitably Spurs looked like they were going

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