McClaren admits that his Toon side will need to continue to develop on how to control the games, especially when we are in the lead.

McClaren said: “We are not at that level (where we can control games) yet but that is the level you want to get to.”

“We are trying to get that balance between the two so we are growing, developing; we are not there yet but as long as we keep battling and picking up the points and always being competitive (then we’ll be fine).”

Newcastle took the lead in the 38th minute, when De Jong mis-hit delivery, the ball skidded under Chancel Mbemba and through the entire Villa defence before Coloccini sliced his shot into the net.

Newcastle then have to the chance to kill the game in the 59th minute, with Wijnaldum picked out Siem de Jong unmarked at the back post just to see the Dutchman direct his header wide.

It was an awful miss – and then Villa were level after Janmaat allowed Ayew some space in the left-hand corner of our defense box before whipping a curled shot into the far corner past a diving Elliot.

Elliot had another good performance and kept Newcastle level couple of times, especially with a brilliant tipping over a powerful Gestede header in the second half. So finally with a promotional code money placed on draw was at this time very lucrative.

Ayoze Perez, who come in as substitute then missed another Toon great opportunity to win the game in injury-time just like what he did against Spurs. Played in by Sissoko, he could only direct his shot high and wide from 12 yards out.

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“It’s answered the critics we have had over last four weeks and it was a great performance in the second half and a great result.” Steve McClaren said on the BBC site,

“That is what we are, a bedrock of discipline and hard work. We have talented players, and they know how to win, we just have to do it consistently.”

Just before this game, United was in the bottom three and while under severe pressure McClaren knew that he had to turn it around to lift Newcastle out into 15th place, one place ahead of champions Chelsea who will face Leicester City on Monday.

Newcastle have won all of our last three league visits to White Hart Lane, and now it’s Aston Villa on Saturday in a game which McClaren see to consolidate United’s Premier League position before Christmas.

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Transfers are aways something we as football fans anticipate. First of all – it’s beyond fun trying to speculate who’s going where. Secondly, people love participating in sports bets regarding transfers, and they got plenty to choose from as there are various betting strategies from draw no bets to parlay and moneyline that they may use. You’ll notice that the sports bets really stand out during the transfer period!

Wilfred Zaha

The Manchester United ace has been strongly linked with a January loan move to Newcastle. The winger, who joined United in the summer, has not featured much for United and would surely be open to a move. Zaha would bring welcome competition amongst the wide men as well as providing the required quality to lead the Toon up the table during the second half of the season.

Alfred Finnbogason

Newcastle need goals and they need them fast. Papiss Cisse’s stock has fallen recently; he is yet to score in the Premier League and the fact that bookmakers like Titan Bet are pricing him at 150/1 to be the league’s top-scorer highlights his current decline.  The Toon drastically need a scorer and Finnbogason is a cheap and viable option. The Icelandic star scored 28 goals in 33 appearances for Heerenveen last year and has 13 goals in nine appearances to his name so far this season. Available for around £5m the striker could be the perfect tonic to Newcastle’s current goal drought. Not only is he cheap, he would also be willing to move to Tyneside, but Newcastle need to move quickly as West Ham are also said to be interested.

Micah Richards

Pardew has already hinted that he is looking at Richards as he bids to strengthen his defence. The right-back is struggling to get into the Man City side at the moment and with the 2014 World Cup approaching he knows he needs first team football if he is going to be on the plane for Rio. Football betting fans at least seem to think that a move to Newcastle would be the perfect opportunity to reignite his career. Pardew has also admitted that he is looking at signing British players in January and Richards is expected to be at the top of his wish list.

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After a start to the season in which the Newcastle defence have conceded more goals than all but two of their Premier League rivals, fans of football betting will know having Taylor and Haidara back could well be the catalyst to the team tightening up their defence.

Taylor has not played since the opening day of the season, when the defender was sent off during a forgettable trip to Manchester City. After serving his ban, Taylor was then kept on the sidelines by a hamstring strain that ruled him out of contention for the last month.

The centre-back could be set to return to the line-up for the visit of Liverpool after the international break, against one of the league’s most in-form attacking units, where Daniel Sturridge and Luis Suarez will be looking to take advantage of one of the Premier League’s worst defences.

Haidara could also be welcomed back against the Reds after recovering from the knee injury that plagued the left-back throughout the summer. The French youngster has not made an appearance yet this season, and he rejoins a team that has become associated with their leaky back line in the live football commentary.

But it hasn’t been all good news, with young defender, Curtis Good, suffering a setback in his lengthy lay-off, picking up a fresh hamstring problem that will have taken some of the shine away from a pretty positive week for Pardew in terms of injuries.

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Ben Arfa once again our man of the match imho, while on the ball he’s very dangerous with his movement and pace, and one golden opportunity has successfully converted into goal in 18th minutes. This is what made our fans happy – as many of our fans placed a bet or two on him /our team. Luckily, even if they placed a draw no bet type of bet, they didn’t lose!

After the lead, it seems that we were a bit vurnerable while under pressure, our back four were struggling defensively and almost get caught by Agbonlahor in the start of second-half.

Newcastle’s regained the attacking dominance shortly with Remy and Ben Arfa blistering pace are continuing to torment the home side. Ben Arfa denied his second while his curling effort was saved by Brad Guzan’s.

But after Remy being brought off with Gouffran coming on in his place, we are once again under pressure and Benteke levelled with a bullet header.

Thanks to Yoan Gouffran who takes us back in the lead in 73rd minutes after taking the advantage from Ben Arfa’s fierce left-foot shot that can only parried by Guzan.

We could have couple more goals, with Cisse and Ben Arfa both are going close.

The verdict, I can see some improvement going in the squad and hopefully this team can keep the team spirit and stay free of injuries at least until the next transfer window re-open in January next year.

Tiotte is back in the game, while Cabaye is still not in his best performance but soon he will be. In defense I think we still have plenty of work to do, as well as to bring Cisse’s killer instinct back.

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