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Have Newcastle Regressed?

ESPN FC

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew continue to review Manchester United's disastrous start to the season and question how Erik ten Hag still has a job after a 12th defeat in 24 games. Meanwhile, Steve Nicol expresses why he thinks Newcastle haven't regressed from last season's heroics. Plus, Nedum Onuoha joins the show to give his thoughts on Mikel Arteta avoiding a ban for his rant after Arsenal's defeat to Newcastle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.1

Hesselot and Stevie Nickle. It's been a busy couple of days, doesn't it, with the Champions League. Now seems a very apt time to reflect on what we saw.

0:47.0

And arguably one of the biggest stories was Manchester United, of course, finishing bottom of the group, out of the booze rock bottom

0:55.1

alfed us then of course it was by Munich who beat them but the damage was done

0:59.5

earlier on in the group stages did you like some some fun facts, Stephen, about Manchester United?

1:04.0

Or not so fun facts, as their case may be. 12 losses.

1:08.0

These are fun, don't want it.

1:09.0

12 classes in 24 games. That's the most defeats in that time since 1973. 15 goals allowed in six

1:18.0

Champions League matches. That's the most ever by a Premier League side in a

1:22.2

single Champions League group stage and finished last in the Champions

1:25.8

League Group. You have to go back to 2005 for the last time that that happened.

1:30.9

Natal Manua is with us from his ski cabin today, lovely to have him with us.

1:35.6

Nader, obviously you live in Manchester.

1:38.4

What a Manchester United fan saying about this whole debacle?

1:42.4

Well, they're obviously very unhappy, upset, pretty moody about things saying it's all

1:47.1

doom and gloom, but even though it was a few weeks ago they said their clubs back, you know, this is the

1:51.3

nest, this is a sort of roller coaster ride of emotions that, you know, these guys

1:54.8

are having this season and you saw the stat they're about, they've lost 12 games.

1:58.6

They've also won like half their games as well, so they literally are up and down but that Champions League run they've just

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