Joe Buck reacts to Newcastle United's disappointing 3-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest at St James' Park. Eddie Howe's side were undone by a Chris Wood hat-trick as the former Magpies striker came back to haunt his old club.
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00:00 Nugatsu Naito suffered a third straight defeat in all competitions, a sixth defeat in seven
00:06 in all competitions here against Nottingham Forest and a very, very disappointing afternoon
00:11 for any outside. They were outplayed by Nottingham Forest. They didn't deserve, well they didn't
00:16 deserve anything from the game. Nottingham Forest were absolutely fair winners. They
00:19 were just, it's hard not to, you know, it's hard to dissect the form to that because you've
00:25 got to look at, you would say you've got to look at the last month or so but to be honest
00:28 Nugatsu were just on the day. They were terrible. Their injury problems, their amount of games
00:33 they've had to play, none of that accounts for that performance today. They took the
00:37 lead through Alexander, he's had a first half penalty and I thought it was going to be a
00:41 0-1 but it was given at the end but he's actually put that away. And then they went into the
00:47 stoppage time of the first half ahead, not necessarily too confident but ahead. Chris
00:52 Wood scored in that time of the first half to get a 1-1 at half time and that was a real
00:59 kick in the teeth for Nugatsu if they'd held on, who knows what would have happened in
01:01 that second half but to be honest, the second they came out for that second period they
01:04 were absolutely dominated by Forest. Chris Wood got a hat-trick all within 15 minutes
01:10 of each other either side of half-time and yeah their defending was really, really poor.
01:14 They had for both goals, Chris Wood, to be fair, took his goals very well and showed
01:21 what he didn't show in Newcastle. It's one of those days where you think about the season
01:32 as a whole and how damaging that result could be. They were bad in defence, for a defence
01:37 that had Burn, Bottman, Schurr and Trippier in that was so solid last year. They looked
01:42 slow, they looked completely unable to deal with Anthony Lange, Chris Wood, Morgan Gibbs
01:46 right in that 10. They were very poor on attack, they had very little ingenuity, inventiveness,
01:52 anything really. They've struggled over that the last few weeks to be fair, the last few
01:54 games and today was a real problem for them. They just lacked everything in all departments
01:58 and it was a game where you could sense once they went 2-1 down, especially when they went
02:02 3-1 down, they had no plan B, they had no other way to break Forest down. We saw that
02:05 against Luton, we saw that against Chelsea, they had nothing to break them down really
02:10 and then they had no plan B and they've really suffered for that the last few games, especially
02:14 today. The missed opportunity in the summer window to strengthen, of course you can't
02:19 foresee the Tonali burn, of course you can't foresee Harvey Barnes' injury, but that was
02:23 a real missed opportunity to strengthen and the team that finished there, other than Tino
02:27 Livermore and Lewis Hall, that could have easily finished their game last season and
02:32 that really hurts them. They need something else, either a midfielder, creative force
02:36 or something out wide to do something. Anthony Gordon was almost anonymous, Miggi Almaron
02:40 had another poor game, so it was one of them where everything just seemed to go wrong,
02:44 or certainly not go wrong actually because that's taken away credit from them at the
02:48 Forest because they were very good but nothing went right for Newcastle, they weren't very
02:51 good, they deserved to get beat and on Boxing Day, 50,000 fans go home very unhappy and
02:56 dissatisfied because their team was out-fought, out-run, out-played, everything, it was a
03:02 very bad day at the office and one that unfortunately has become a little bit of a norm in the recent
03:07 times, I think that their home record had been so good, is now almost, you know, that's
03:11 two defeats now, that's gone, Fortress, Newcastle United, Fortress, St James Park, it's gone,
03:15 so that's going to be... Yeah, they're going to have to recover from that and Liverpool
03:19 in less than a week's time, six days' time, is now looking like a ridiculously hard fixture,
03:23 it's always a hard fixture at Anfield, but that's one they've now got to get a point
03:25 in, simple as that because you can't get beat by, you know, the Forest at home, looting
03:29 away and then go to Liverpool and get beat and think 'oh this is fine' because you get
03:33 beat by Liverpool heading into that Sunderland game on the back of seven defeats in eight,
03:36 that's a real tricky situation to be in and this was a game, a real missed opportunity
03:40 and one that they didn't deserve to win, so yeah, fair play, not on Forest who were the
03:44 better side, Eddie Howe now has some serious questions to answer about his team selection,
03:49 tactics and everything about that, there's no lack, I don't think Eddie Howe has lost
03:53 the support of the fans, he's certainly not a supporter of the fans yet, but there's going
03:56 to be questions asked and they need the answers because that performance was unacceptable
04:01 I think and I think Eddie Howe and his players will know that and they'll need a reaction
04:03 next week, just a very disappointing day here at St James' Park.
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