Newcastle United drew 0-0 with Burnley on Saturday.
Newcastle United’s goalscoring woes continued on Saturday afternoon, as they could only draw 0-0 at home with Burnley.
The Magpies needed to hit back having lost 1-0 at Crystal Palace last weekend, and a home game against Burnley was a great opportunity to get back on track.
However, Steve Bruce’s side once again couldn’t find the net, and haven’t scored a single Premier League goal in their last four games.
The last Newcastle league goal came from Florian Lejeune on January 21st, and the Magpies couldn’t break their duck despite Bruce changing up his attack.
The 5-4-1 system was axed against Burnley, with Bruce deploying more of a 4-4-1-1 as Joelinton was shifted to the left, Miguel Almiron played off the front and Matt Ritchie returned on the right flank.
With Joelinton out wide, Dwight Gayle was given a chance to lead the Newcastle attack, having recently returned from a six-week absence, with this just his third league start of the season.
The 29-year-old couldn’t find the net, but did go close in the second half as an acrobatic overhead kick from Almiron’s cross went narrowly wide of the target.
Newcastle fans seemed suitably impressed by Gayle, taking to Twitter to suggest that he was ‘decent’ and ‘very good’, praising his movement inside the box compared to Joelinton.
Others think that Newcastle were ‘far better’ with Gayle up top rather than Joelinton, believing he is more of a threat than the Brazilian even if he didn’t score on Saturday.
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