Steve McClaren says indiscipline has cost Newcastle
Friday 30 October 2015 16:45, UK
Steve McClaren believes Newcastle's fortunes will improve if they can keep eleven players on the pitch.
The Magpies have had a man sent off in three of their 10 Premier League games this season and have lost on each occasion, with Swansea, Arsenal and Sunderland all capitalising on the extra man.
Fabricio Coloccini successfully appealed his red card against Sunderland last week, but that news did little to assuage the sense of injustice following a 3-0 defeat in a game which Newcastle were dominating before he was sent off.
Manager McClaren, whose side face Stoke at St James' Park on Saturday, said: "If we play like that and keep 11 players on the pitch, we will win eight or nine out of 10 games. You can see the progress. Some of our football was fantastic and that's progress.
"You don't have to be rocket scientists and experts in football to know that we dominated that game. We felt a lot of injustice against us.
"But you can't feel sorry for yourselves and you have to get back to work. We have done that, I think the fans have moved on quickly and what we have got to do is keep reproducing those performances week in, week out.
"We have shown what we are capable of doing and at times, our football was excellent. We created chances, which we weren't doing earlier in the season, so when I look in the long term, keep 11 players on the park and I can see this team winning games.
"In the short term, we'd like to start winning tomorrow."
