Waltermad: I feel bad when Newcastle is reversed, we have to learn from the lesson

September 29th September local time in the UK, on ​​September 28, local time in the 6th round of the Premier League this season, Newcastle lost 1-2 to Arsenal at home, and Newcastle striker Walter Mad was interviewed after the game.

About this game, we led 1-0 for a long time today, but we lost two goals at the end of the game. This feeling is definitely not good, yes, I feel particularly uncomfortable. I think we failed to relieve the pressure in front of our goal in the second half and have been defending passively. Many times, we should have taken the initiative to create some opportunities to ‘take a breath’ - such as getting rid of the pressure by controlling the ball and transferring the ball to Arsenal's half. We have to learn from this game because if you keep defending for 45 minutes or even 52 minutes in the second half, without even a decent offense chance, and finally get two goals through a corner kick by your opponent. This is really bad.

Regarding the goal I scored in this game

We practiced similar tactical cooperation yesterday, and I knew the ball would pass near the near post. I was in a very good position at the time because I was at an arm's length with Gabriel so I could leaps up and steadily push the ball into it.

Regarding the conflict with opposing defender Gabriel after scoring the goal

I felt his elbow hit my face-his arms were so high. I just told the referee that my face was touched. I thought it was unreasonable to have my face touched, but I am not the type of player who would fake it for this, which does not fit my style of playing football. Gabriel apologized to me later, so I felt like he knew he had touched my face. To be honest, I didn't worry about this.

Why don't you accept Gabriel's apology?

I don't like this situation - I made such an action in the game, and I said sorry a few seconds later, this is not what the game should be. I don't mind the fierce confrontation, but his elbow shouldn't have hit my face.