Newcastle: Why Rafael Benitez & Jonjo Shelvey hold key to success - Jenas

It is splendid to peer my vintage membership newcastle inside the pinnacle 1/2 of the most effective league table, but my message to their enthusiasts could be to experience it while it lasts.

Nobody knows what will manifest with this magpies crew this season, so their supporters just must experience the experience - and there are going to be a few americaand downs.

They have won three and lost 3 in their six video games up to now, that's respectable for a promoted facet, and i'm certain many newcastle fanatics might be without a doubt delighted through the way they've began the marketing campaign.

Newcastle fans
Rafael benitez recommended newcastle to merchandising ultimate season but fanatics feared he would leave in frustration over the membership's loss of switch activity
However i attempt to look at performances in place of effects at this degree because it gives you a great photograph of what is to return - which was why it changed into thrilling to be on the amex stadium on sunday to see the manner rafael benitez's side have been beaten by brighton.

Now, i did now not always expect newcastle to move there and win due to the fact the seagulls aren't a bad side, however the traumatic thing changed into that they by no means appeared like taking the 3 points.

And with out setting too much of a dampener on their run of three directly wins earlier than that defeat, their centre-half of has scored their past  winners.

My query would be this: if jamaal lascelles isn't banging them in from a nook, who's going to score newcastle's desires?

At the moment, i'm not positive.

Benitez the right man or woman to manual them via

Common age of newcastle's beginning xi inside the pl in 2017-18 is 25 years and 2 hundred days
The average age of newcastle's starting xi in 2017-18 is the youngest inside the finest league, observed via liverpool (25 years and 357 days) and huddersfield (26 years and 35 days)
My predominant issues approximately the magpies now are similar to before the season started out: the lack of squad intensity and where their desires will come from.

They are also brief of enjoy. The average age in their beginning xis this season is the youngest in the pinnacle flight and most effective 4 in their gamers have performed extra than 100 surest league games - mo diame (183), jack colback (179), jonjo shelvey (144) and ciaran clark (one hundred forty).

Youngest beginning xis in the most beneficial league 2017-18
Crew common age combatants result
1. Newcastle 25 years seventy seven days huddersfield l zero-1
2. Liverpool 25 years 95 days arsenal w four-zero
3. Newcastle 25 years 102 days west ham w 3-0
Four. Huddersfield 25 years 143 days crystal palace w 3-0
5. Newcastle 25 years a hundred and fifty days stoke metropolis w 2-1
However there are some positives. Their team is probably young but i do not suppose they fear some thing - and lascelles, who's their captain at 23, is the ideal example of that.

Also, in benitez they have got an appropriate supervisor to guide them through their adventure. He is the primary cause why i assume, ultimately, they will be adequate.

The spaniard did now not get the signings he desired over the summer time, however he is operating with the gamers he has got and giving them notion and togetherness - in addition to setting up them, of route.

There was no area for me to perform the way i wanted to

I understand how benitez works and, with out pointing the finger or setting apart human beings, he could be seeking to drill things into every of his players as a way to improve them as a crew.

Once I reflect onconsideration on benitez's liverpool teams i played towards, one of the things he was continually good at was limiting space for me to work in.

I used to love making lengthy runs forward, at the back of the defence, however if i started one and were given faraway from my midfielder i might emerge as running into xabi alonso, who might just be sitting there expecting me.

If that failed to happen, i might find that the liverpool defence become gambling just a little bit deeper, so there was no space in at the back of for me to go into.

He could nearly create mini-video games for each of his gamers in order that they knew a way to deal with the danger posed with the aid of the competition - and it worked.

For me, it changed into weird and it continually felt like there was no area everywhere for me to move and perform the manner i desired to.

Rafael benitez at some stage in his time in rate of liverpool
Rafael benitez managed liverpool among 2004 and 2010, triumphing the champions league in 2005 and the fa cup in 2006
Liverpool a step too a long way for magpies

What benitez is notable at doing is simplifying instructions - he makes things as smooth as feasible for his players.

I simply hope he does not get pissed off if the restrictions of his newcastle squad suggest they may be no longer capable of doing what he needs from them.

Benitez is up towards his antique group liverpool on sunday, and the kind of things he could have expected from the reds facets he had are not realistic with the players he has got at newcastle.

He will have the magpies completely organised, but that is not always sufficient.

They will make life hard for liverpool at st james' park - like they did against tottenham on the hole weekend till jonjo shelvey turned into despatched off.


Shelvey purple card modified sport - benitez
However i assume there are a few video games inside the best league that will be one step too a long way for them this season, and this is one in every of them. Even if benitez spots a hassle i am not positive he can do a whole lot about it.

Against brighton, benitez noticed his left-returned chancel mbemba wanted a few assist to deal with the maximum risky brighton attacks from solly march and anthony knockaert, and pulled christian atsu back to support him.

It did now not paintings and if the seagulls had extra exceptional they might have gained by way of multiple aim.

The reds' assault is up there with manchester metropolis's as the first-rate inside the league right now and that i do not assume newcastle will escape with it again.

If they play like they did in their defeat on the amex stadium, then i think liverpool will wipe the floor with them.

Newcastle's power is as a shielding unit

Newcastle's starting xi v brighton
Newcastle's starting xi v brighton. Jonjo shelvey changed isaac hayden after sixty eight mins
Newcastle additionally had problems at the alternative stop of the pitch in opposition to brighton - for plenty of the game they seemed to lack perception in the very last 0.33.

To have any form of fulfillment, they need so that it will create greater probabilities in open play. Their problem is that the greater benitez commits ahead, the weaker his aspect turn out to be at the back.

Other than lascelles, i do not assume there's every person else of their returned-line you would be cozy leaving in a one-on-one scenario.

So, what benitez has to do is surround them with human beings to protect them, this means that doing away with some of the attacking edge of matt ritchie or ayoze perez due to the fact he is looking them to sign up for in and help shield as a team.


'lascelles managing captain's position nicely'
Benitez is by no means going to exit and play unfastened-flowing football due to the fact he has constructed his career on his groups being defensively robust as a unit.

He will never move faraway from that, which might be just as properly for newcastle of their scenario - they do now not have the gamers for that form of technique anyway. So he wishes to find some creativity with out losing their form and solidity in midfield.

Ought to shelvey hold the important thing?

One way benitez should address his problems in assault is with the aid of getting midfielder shelvey within the proper frame of thoughts and lower back into his beginning line-up.

It is clear to me that newcastle are a better and more creative facet with shelvey than they're without him.

The extent of danger carried by way of the magpies went via the roof the instant he got here on as a 68th-minute replacement towards brighton.

Jonjo shelvey
Jonjo shelvey created extra probabilities and made more assists (8) than any other newcastle participant inside the championship final season
Isaac hayden is a first rate footballer and very combative, and you can tell mikel merino likes getting on the ball and popping it round - however they may be both a little bit safe in midfield. Shelvey tries things.

He's a threat from distance and a terrific crosser of the ball, the form of player that attackers will love to play with.

Shelvey has no longer began considering the fact that he permit his crew down with that pink card in opposition to spurs, and it has probably achieved him some correct that they've gone on and gained some video games without him.

It would have made him recognise he has to take a very good look at himself, and have the ideal mind-set whilst he performs, because in any other case he is going to stay at the bench.

With the qualities he has were given, newcastle want him in their crew.

I think the form of season they may now go on to have will rely upon whether or not they can get him in form and get the quality out of him. He is that critical.