The Newcastle United starting 11 for their Capital One cup tie against Crystal Palace is:
Newcastle: Elliot, Janmaat, Coloccini, Steven Taylor, Dummett, Colback, Abeid, Obertan, Armstrong, Ameobi, Riviere. Subs: Sissoko, Anita, Ferreyra, Perez, Haidara, Cabella, Alnwick.
Does that look like a 11 strong enough to be a Palace team who are unbeaten since Neil Warnock took the job? A team who scored 3 goals at SJP last week? I don't think so. Fact is Taylor, Dummett, Sammy, & Obertan are not good enough while young Armstrong is not ready.
Newcastle need a win, any win will do. Add that to the fact that we have an awful pedigree in the cup competitions over recent years and I would have thought Pardew would have his strongest possible 11 in South London tonight.
This will do nothing more than support the belief that our club do not care about the cups - much to the frustration of our fans. Can the club suggest they are concentrating on the league when we current sit at the bottom of the league and are obviously not concentrating hard enough.
I hope I have this wrong and I would love to be sitting here tomorrow night writing about a good cup win - but I just do not see it happening.
Enjoy the match
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