Mes: julio 2019

Rafael Benítez has pledged to ban alcohol during Newcastle’s impending warm-weather training trip to Alicante but he may now be tempted to relax that ruling. A thoroughly restorative win featuring two goals from the gifted loanee winger Kenedy not only assuaged his side’s relegation anxieties but exacerbated Southampton’s own fears of falling into the Championship. Mauricio Pellegrino’s side have now won only one of their last 17 league games and, with Mario Lemina and company well off the pace, they seemed to surrender here. Pellegrino was subjected to chants of “you don’t know what you’re doing” from visiting fans and later acknowledged that his side had given up. West Ham chaos as pitch invaders and crowd trouble mars Burnley’s win Read more Dominant in central midfield against opponents apparently averse to competing for second balls, Newcastle’s duo of Mohamed fotbollströja Diamé and Jonjo Shelvey, impressive as they were, have rarely enjoyed such a straightforward afternoon. “I’m really disappointed,” said Pellegrino, who worked under Benítez at Liverpool and Internazionale. “We were never a threat to Newcastle. I must apologise to our supporters because we did not represent our club well enough. You can have good players but without personality it’s really difficult to compete. We have to switch on our spirit. The players are intelligent; they know what they did.” While Pellegrino grimly nodded agreement with a reporter’s assertion that...