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Championship League Updates

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28 November 2016

By Bronwen

Newcastle United are – as they should be – still at the top of the Championship League table with 40 points and a goal difference of 22. They lost Saturday’s game against Blackburn 1-0 just as they were about to make a club record of ten victories in a row. The last time they got to nine wins in a row was in 1984 under management from Kevin Keegan, so this game was kind of a big deal. Anyway, it looks as if this particular record is going to have to be broken in another season, as Charlie Mulgrew of Blackburn scored a goal in the 75th minute. This was particularly shocking as throughout the game, the Newcastle players were the ones giving the strongest performance, with a possession of 66% and an attempt at 15 goals compared to Blackburn’s 11.

Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez acknowledged that he had made some mistakes with his pre-match decisions regarding tactics and players. He told the BBC, “We have to analyse what happened before the next game and make sure we don’t make the same mistakes. I knew that when you lose a game and you change your players, everyone blames the manager. I knew that, but in the same time we have to show more character and more personality.”

Hopefully in their next game against Hull City, they can begin a new, longer win streak.

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