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TALE OF MISSED CHANCES AND RASH CHALLENGES

Chief Newcastle United Writer IT isn’t too often that you’ll see football fans complaining about taking a point away from home with just 10 men.

But in the complex world of Newcastle United, anything is possible.

Basically on a day in which the Magpies could have lost after getting a player sent off, they snatched a point from the jaws of victory!

We should be talking about a bit of a smash-and-grab win away to Cardiff City.

However, the Monday morning inquests on Tyneside will centre around the handful of frustrating factors that meant three points were slashed down to just one because of some bad judgment. Where do you start? Many have pointed out that this was an abject contest that seemed to get worse as the minutes ticked by - and they are absolutely right.

But was it ever going to be any different against a Neil Warnock team?

This game was probably always destined to be last on Match of the Day!

Had Newcastle gone there and tried to play football, Warnock’s side would have tried to stop the Magpies playing.

Instead, Rafa Benitez decided to play Cardiff at their own abject game and while it was hardly pretty to watch they created enough presentable chances to win the game.

Jonjo Shelvey managed to float the ball into the arms of Neil Etheridge from a free-kick in the first half, but late in the game, United couldn’t have asked for two better chances to win it.

A gift of a penalty following a handball, but just before that a free-kick from just outside the D.

And so on to some of the bad decision-making from United on the day as they squandered their big moments to take three points from the newly-promoted Bluebirds.

Kenedy was lucky to be on the field, after his kick out at Victor Camarasa, as the game drifted into the last throes and by that time most had already come to the conclusion he’d had a poor game.

Although, he was still influen-