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UEFA Cup Round of 32 2nd Leg |
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Season 2006-2007 |
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NEWCASTLE UNITED |
1 v 0 |
S.V. ZULTE-WAREGEM |
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Date: |
Thursday 22nd February 2007 |
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Venue: |
St James' Park |
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Kick Off: |
7:45pm |
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Australian
Live TV:
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None |
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Attendance: |
30,083 |
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Referee: |
Nikolai Ivanov (Russia) |
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Read the match preview |
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Newcastle:
Harper, Taylor, Bramble, Babayaro (Huntington 46), Milner, Solano, Butt
(Pattison 65), Dyer, Duff, Luque (Carroll 65), Martins.
Subs Not Used: Srnicek, O'Brien, Edgar, LuaLua
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Booked: |
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Zulte-Waregem:
Bossut, Minne (Reina 76), D'Haene, Dindeleux, Buysse, Vandermarliere,
Van Steenbrugge, Vannieuwenhuyse, Meert, Van Den Driessche (Sergeant
56), Siani (Matthys 56).
Subs Not Used: Merlier, Verschuere |
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Booked:
Reina |
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Match Report: |
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They
came, they saw, they fell asleep. 30,083 hardly soles turned up at St
James’ Park, for what was in affect a ‘meaning less’ game. Paying £20
($50) a ticket for the privilege, they witnessed a Newcastle United team
going through the motions as if it was a practice match but in the end
doing enough to win 1-0.
If you take into consideration the fact that only 25,124 turned up for
Blackburn Rovers v
Bayer
Leverkusen, which was a tie still in the balance, the strength and depth
(mainly in their pockets) of the Toon Army can’t be taken lightly.
Quite
frankly, this type of game is an example of where the two-legged cup
format fails. With the Belgians very happy to have 10 men behind the
ball for vast periods of the game, despite the fact that they needed
goals, just goes to prove how pointless this game was.
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For one man this game wasn’t meaning less or pointless,
Albert Luque was given a chance to impress by starting ahead of Antoine
Sibierski,
who was rested because of a tight hamstring. The transporters were out
in force to witness such a rare outing but like so many hyped up events,
it was an anti-climax in the extreme. BBC Radio Newcastle’s commentary
team was very disparaging of his performance to say the least and the
comments on nufc.com reflected the same view. Why a player finally given
a start, would chose to stroll around the pitch with little enthusiasm
will no doubt have not gone unnoticed by the vast majority of the fans
and more importantly Glenn Roeder.
Some positives can be taken out of the game however, finally a clean
sheet, Titus Bramble having another good game and
Obafemi
Martins
continuing his goal scoring form. Twenty games unbeaten at home in the
UEFA Cup now and with AZ
Alkmaar
the next opponents in last 16, let’s hope we can say it’s
twenty one by the end of 8th March.
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