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Newcastle 4-0 Leicester - the fans' verdict

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Anthony Gordon of Newcastle United is fouled by James Justin of Leicester City during the Premier League match between Newcastle United FC and Leicester City FC at St James' Park
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We asked for your thoughts after Saturday's Premier League game between Newcastle and Leicester City.

Here are some of your comments:

Newcastle fans:

Michael: Much better and Dan Burn was awesome! Sandro Tonali, Jacob Murphy, Lewis Hall and Bruno Guimaraes all got involved. Alexander Isak could have had a hat-trick but it is good to see him getting back to his best! Much-needed win for an under-pressure Eddie Howe.

Richard: I'm not sure if I expected us to win because the players would be out to support the manager after a poor show at Brentford or because losing was just unthinkable! Failing to win would have just been awful and thankfully we got the good NUFC and not the 'other' one. When we play well, we can give anyone a game. Consistency is the key. And well done Murph for proving the doubters wrong.

Johnny: A fantastic win and much better performance than others of late. Leicester were poor and there will be much harder games to come, but across the midfield our team seemed a lot more balanced than they have looked recently. If we'd been more clinical it could have been as comprehensive as six or seven nil. Hall and Tonali were my standouts.

Adam: Finally a result and a performance. Hopefully they can replicate this regularly and really kick on this season. There's so much disruption in the league like City floundering. A good run over the holiday period could lift us really high and set us up for a exciting finale.

Leicester fans:

Karl: Awful. Made a bang-average side look like Brazil 1970. Clutching at straws because we were abysmal - but Guimaraes shouldn't have been on the pitch. The referee was as bad as we were.

Ian: I felt at half-time that we were still in the game and could have challenged for at least a point in the second half. Then I switched back as the game had restarted, saw Danny Ward in goal, and knew we were in for a humiliation. I never want to see him in a Leicester shirt again. Ever. The amount of sheer bad luck this club has endured over the past four years or so is astonishing.

Carl: We are where we are. When you lose players like Riyad Mahrez, N'Golo Kante, Ben Chilwell, Danny Drinkwater, Harvey Barnes, Harry Maguire, Wesley Fofana, James Maddison, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Kasper Schmeichel and then face long-term injuries to Abdul Fatawu and Ricardo Pereira, and only ever replace with £5-15 million players there is no surprise that we are struggling near the bottom of the table. It's going to be a long season!

Richard: The truth was hammered home here - no real team co-ordination developed at all. Also it is surely time to find another goalkeeper in place of Ward. Nobody wanted him in the summer but he cannot be allowed between the sticks in the Premier League. Get someone new or look to develop from the academy and let Ward's contact just run out.

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