17 Jan 2015 18:24:29
What was panning out be a solid first half performance was ruined by that Newcastle equaliser. There's two ways to look at this one, both suggest to me a lack of communication between Clyne, Gardos and Forster. Fault A lies with Gardos, because from the replays it looked like an easy gather for Forster who had come out to meet it, but neither Gardos or Clyne seem to be acknowledging the keepers call. Fault B would be Forster for coming off his line because Clyne gets in front of Gouffran so even if the ball deflects from Gardos' attempted clearance it should still be kept out by Forster.

1.) 17 Jan 2015
Any situation where Forster has to come off his line is always a white knuckle ride - he's been slow and indecisive all season when it comes to leaving the safety of his six yard box. You'd hope the longer he plays with this defence, the better the understanding will become.

To be fair, it was a freak goal. I doubt Gardos could've done that again in 100 attempts. He read the play perfectly, he got across, cleared towards the touchline and just got unlucky. It happens. Not often, but there we go. He played pretty well otherwise.

2.) 17 Jan 2015
17 Jan 2015 20:01:59
I think it was a bit of bad luck all round for their goal but I still think Forster is too slow to react not just on the goal but in general throughout the whole game. I thought Pelle was brilliant and our new boy looks a box of tricks. 42 points and 2 weeks till the next PL game, happy days.

3.) 17 Jan 2015
I'm afraid to say that's Forster's ball all day long. A man his size should dominate his box and put that ball straight back down the pitch where it came from!. But saying that he and the whole team played really well and looked very confident on the ball.

4.) 17 Jan 2015
Coaching staff need to work on forsters positional play and communication he was clear favourite for that ball, clyney had done excellent job by getting back at guaffran, gardos was in place but all went horribly wrong due to no communication

5.) 18 Jan 2015
Forster defo made a call that he was coming for it

Watch Clyne, he's all the proof you need. He's heard the call, he's got goal side of Gouffran and is just holding him back, buying a bit of time for Forster to get to the ball first. Clyne's not trying to attack the ball, if Forster hadn't made the call and had stayed back Clyne would and should have been attacking the ball, making sure he was there first and not worrying about slowing Gouffran down.

Gardos clearly didn't hear the call (or wasn't paying attention?) but, he should have been aware of what Clyne and Forster were doing, if Forster wasn't coming for the ball Clyne should always have been there first, knocking the ball AWAY from the attacking player, not into their path as Gardos did. I'm not sure what Gardos was thinking there but he shouldn't have been going for that ball unless he was clearly ahead of Clyne and Gouffran with enough time to kick it out instead of sliding - otherwise leave it

it was unlucky, 1 in a 100 chance of happening, which is a shame 'cause he's been solid just lately

6.) 18 Jan 2015
18 Jan 2015 08:21:27
Not convinced with the explanation, Forster should have taken that ball long before Gardos arrived, he was slow off his line as usual. Anyway it doesn't matter we won and we move on but I'm sure the goalkeeping coach will mention it gingerly to Fraser and maybe make him watch it through.