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Newcastle United: Magpies aiming to bounce back against Brighton

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00:00 Yeah, if we look at that Brighton game before we look at transfers, obviously,
00:03 Brighton are a team who are in amongst it as well, and certainly were last season in those European places, you know, top six hunting.
00:13 But they had a job done on them by West Ham on Saturday as well.
00:18 And for all Brighton's possession and for all that pressure on the West Ham goal, West Ham had a couple of counterattacks, very similar to Liverpool, and won the game out of the Amex.
00:28 So is it a case of when Newcastle might actually have to change the way they play and could there be any changes to their line-up in order to do what West Ham did?
00:36 Yeah, so I watched the game, Brighton-West Ham, and it was a really strange game.
00:42 I don't know if anyone out there seen it last season, but Everton went to Brighton in the closing stages of last season and won, I think it was 5-1 in the end.
00:51 And the similarities are very similar.
00:53 So Brighton had a lot of possession, almost on top of the West Ham defence, but West Ham had a breakaway and they were deadly in the counterattack and that's how they won the game.
01:04 I don't think that'll be Newcastle's style on Saturday.
01:07 Newcastle don't play that way.
01:09 They play possession, their front foot, which I don't think will change the tactics for that.
01:15 I don't think there'll be too much panic among Newcastle United dressing room.
01:19 I think they'll stick to what has got them to this point in terms of being in Champions League football, the top team in the Premier League.
01:27 So I don't expect too much to change tactically.
01:31 It's a shame that Brighton have suffered a freak result like that a week before they play Newcastle, because the fear is, will two games be the same and will they lose two games at the Amex?
01:43 I suppose only time will tell, but I say having lost back-to-back games, Newcastle against Man City and Liverpool, there's a little bit of pressure going into Brighton now to get a result.
01:54 You don't want to be going into the international break on the back of three consecutive defeats, coming back after the international break, especially with Champions League football to come.
02:04 It would feel like for the first time in a while that they'll be on a little bit of a downer, because they haven't had this under Eddie Howe.
02:13 Certainly after that first chance window under Eddie Howe, where they surged to Premier League survival and obviously got top four.
02:21 So I think there will be a bit of a disaster after winning and losing at Brighton on Saturday.
02:28 It's a possibility Brighton are a really good side, but I suspect Newcastle will be fired up.
02:35 I don't think Eddie Howe will make too many changes to his start 11, because as you mentioned earlier, for 75 minutes in that game against Liverpool, it wasn't a bad performance against Liverpool.
02:46 Newcastle just lost the way in the final 15 minutes.
02:50 So I don't think there's a need to make too many changes to the start 11.
02:55 I'd probably keep it the same, to be honest.
02:58 Let's just hope Newcastle can get a result at Brighton.
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