Nico González

In the Crystal Palace vs. Newcastle game, Paul Tierney and his VAR, Darren England, got a few decisions spot on.

Nico Gonzalez is correctly yellow-carded for a push on Dwight McNeil when he'd gone past him.

An act of unsporting behavior stopping a promising attack, Hackett noted.

Joe Willock looked to have doubled Newcastle's lead later in the game, but VAR correctly disallowed it for offside.

But Palace being Palace at the minute, they did not heed that warning because just over five minutes later, Newcastle made it 2-0.

Adam Wharton was dispossessed in a really poor area by Nico Gonzalez.

The ball is worked out to Amar Dedic, bombing on from right back for Newcastle.

He plays the ball across.

They brought in some good young talents.

They brought in Matthias Fernandes-Pardo from Lille, Nico Gonzalez from Man City, the defensive midfielder, Amar Dedic, the right-back from Benfica, Lukasz Hornacek, the new goalkeeper from Braga, Aladji Bamba, the centre midfielder from Monaco, A player you probably might have would have wanted at Palace is a guy, Sean Sturr from Ajax, a midfielder, very young, up-and-coming midfielder, and Bazuma Torre, a left winger.

They've always been new players, but they're very young.

The funny thing, I watched the Newcastle press conference with the manager this morning, Matthias Jassler.

And long term, your squad's just much better off.

Nico Gonzalez is a fantastic footballer.

A fantastic footballer.

Baz Toure is excellent.

So for me, I'm just hoping that he's learned.

And Pete, we had the tactics brought out, didn't we? And we were talking about, you know, maybe not going so gung-ho and maybe having a contingency plan where you've got a player dropping slightly deeper and maybe someone alongside him you know, Nico Gonzalez or whoever it may be, just to kind of pick up those scraps or second balls.

That's what we need.

Or if Palace was a counter, just so we've got someone else there rather than just one player who faces the onslaught.

Malik Chow, Sven Bottmann... more so than anybody in Hornacek as well.

But as well as that, it puts a lot of pressure on our midfielders, particularly those ones that have to push up.

So when Weiss is playing in the 10 or Willock, whoever's playing next to Nico Gonzalez, because he tends to be the one that sits and the others bomb on forward, it puts more pressure on them.

And I think I said it to you boys in the Villa reaction, you look at You look at, I saw it at the game on Saturday.

But we get more subs 64th minute.

This is Nico Gonzalez that comes in.

He actually gets to a cross.

and heads it back into the mixer.

If you're looking at leadership as a collective, boys, the same guys you would be leaning on have failed you.

If it's not one of them one game, it's two of them the next.

We saw Nico Gonzalez have some games like, you know what? He could be this driving force.

He could help us.