Newcastle lose in Dortmund and Mowbray previews Birmingham visit: North East football roundup
This week’s North East football roundup looks at Newcastle’s loss in the Champions League, Tony Mowbray looking ahead to Sunderland’s match against Birmingham City, whilst Middlesbrough are set to face Leicester City.
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00:00 Newcastle United's Champions League hopes hang in the balance following a 2-0 defeat
00:06 away at the Signal Iduna Park against Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday night.
00:11 United were unlucky not to be level in the second half when Joe Linton spurned a golden
00:15 chance and were punished later on.
00:18 Milan's win against PSG does keep the whole group alive however.
00:22 The Magpies face Bournemouth on Saturday but will be without Bruno Gimaraes on the south
00:27 coast due to a suspension.
00:32 Sunderland welcome Wayne Rooney's Birmingham City to the Stadium of Light for the early
00:36 kick-off on Saturday with Tony Mowbray answering my questions on Nizari Roussin, the international
00:42 break and the return of large-scale pre-match displays by the spirit of 37.
00:47 "Naz is a lovely lad, I was going to call him a kid, he's not a kid, he's 24, 25 now
00:54 isn't he?
00:55 But he's alright, he's quite tidy with the ball, he's direct, he wants to run it behind,
01:00 he knows that his job is to try and score goals and be on the end of the middle of the
01:04 loose and the wide players create and if they eliminate he has to get in the box and score
01:08 the goals.
01:09 He doesn't carry any edges with him Naz, he's just, he generally gets one word answers,
01:18 yes, when you say you're going to do this and you get in the box and score, yes.
01:24 So listen, he's lovely, I just hope for him, he can find, get on the end of something and
01:31 he's so nearly been on the end of things.
01:33 You know I don't think that deep about it, they are what they are, sometimes you think
01:37 oh, we'll do some work, team, and yet, no, who's going to be away?
01:42 Hulme's going to be away, Ballard's going to be away, Huggins is going to be away, you
01:46 can't do any work with the back line really, unless you use the young players on the periphery
01:51 which of course you're constantly working with them every day anyway.
01:56 Work with strikers, yeah, we do that, we do that every day as well.
02:03 So really you're talking about team work and you can't work your team until probably the
02:07 Thursday, the supporters really are the main thing for me at this football club, when anybody
02:12 says what's it like in Sunderland, it's an amazing club and what makes it is the people,
02:16 really the fans, the supporters, it's quite an incredible football club, they deserve
02:20 to be playing in the Premier League, and that's part of the journey that we are on, to try
02:25 and see if we can get this club back to where it belongs, where the state belongs, you have
02:31 to do it on the grass, on the football pitch, undoubtedly the supporters who can't affect
02:35 what goes on on the football pitch other than support the players, it's quite an amazing
02:39 club, so it doesn't surprise me if the supporters are doing something special.
02:48 Middlesbrough meet Leicester City this weekend, knowing that the league leaders were beaten
02:52 for only the second time of the season against Leeds.
02:55 On Friday, boss Michael Carrick has also been nominated for the Championship Manager of
03:00 the Month award.
03:01 (whooshing)