Nightmare weekend for Newcastle United gets even worse on Sunday – Cruel | OneFootball

You know those Premier League weekends where pretty much everything goes for Newcastle United.

You know, the ones where United turn it on and win comfortably, scoring for fun, keeping a clean sheet.

You know, the ones where the other Premier League fixtures go for NUFC as well.

You know, the ones where luck is on our side.

Well, this isn’t one of them.

It feels instead like one of those Premier League weekends that is sent to try us.

To test our black and white faith.

These were the Saturday 19 April Premier League results:

Brentford 4 Brighton 2

Palace 0 Bournemouth 0

Everton 0 Man City 2

West Ham 1 Southampton 1

Aston Villa 4 Newcastle United 1

In the Newcastle match, the calamitous gifted goal and shocking deflection inside 30 or so seconds set the defeat in motion. Defensive mistakes made by usually rock solid reliable characters such as Tonali for that first goal, then Murphy ball watching on the key second Villa goal. Villa played well enough without needing our help or lady lucky BUT they got both in bucketfuls, as the knockout third was yet another wicked deflection, this time off Burn.

The thing is, this was a weekend where all our other Champions League qualifier rivals had very difficult away games.

Sure enough, Everton looking very comfortable in the 3pm Saturday kick-offs and more than matching Man City, having chances of their own, before the game faded into what looked for sure a goalless draw. Only for Man City to score in the 84th minute and then rub it in with a second goal in the second minute of added time.

Roll on Sunday….

The Sunday 20 April Premier League results:

Fulham 1 Chelsea 2

Ipswich 0 Arsenal 4

Man U 0 Wolves 1

Arsenal looked potentially catchable but theirs and NUFC’s results have effectively ended that small hope, whilst at the same time effectively relegated Ipswich. Who with five games left to play are now 15 points and a 20 goals worse goal difference than fourth bottom West Ham.

The really really really gutting one though is Chelsea.

They were rubbish yet again today, Fulham taking a first half lead and it should have been more.

Then seven minutes left and Fulham coasting to a win, Chelsea score.

Oh well, Chelsea only dropping two points instead of three, still all good.

Third minute of added time and Chelsea get the winner.

You couldn’t make it up.

After those 2pm Sunday kick-offs, this is how the Premier League table now looks:

No need to panic, just need to keep cool heads.

However, even if the Villa defeat had still happened, just look at how much better the Premier League table would have looked if Man City and Chelsea had only picked up a point each, instead of those late and very late wins?

These then are this Weekend’s Premier League matches still to play out…

Sunday 20 April

Leicester v Liverpool (4.30pm)

Monday 21 April

Spurs v Forest (8pm)

As Newcastle United fans we are now relying on Tottenham to save our weekend. Whatever happens in the Leicester v Liverpool match is of zero interest.

That’s right, gutless Spurs who only turn up when they choose to, their effort and character very much called into question.

Tottenham have been a shambles and that includes their last six PL matches, four defeats and only one win, against rock bottom Southampton.

Hopefully that win and clean sheet against Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday will help inspire Spurs to get at least a point against Forest.

They have a fair few players now back available, so no excuses on that front, and having been handed a gift of a route to the final getting Bodo/Glimt in the semis, fingers crossed the flaky Spurs ‘stars’ will raise their game against Forest, playing for places in a potential Europa League final.

So long as Forest don’t complete a total nightmare of Premier League wins this weekend for Newcastle United, then NUFC will at the very least remain in third after Monday night.

Then focus on next Saturday and a home game against Ipswich, who have lost 10 and won only one of their last 13 Premier League matches AND will be mathematically relegated for sure, unless winning at St James’ Park.