Modest Mo praises his team-mates
MO DIAME has played down any personal praise after Newcastle United’s 2-1 win over Arsenal at St James’ Park.
The former Senegal international is in superb form and continued his brilliant end to the season with a rock-solid display in midfield to sicken the Gunners, just days after they celebrated success in the Europa League.
However, while Diame was the man of the match for both Sky Sports and Chroniclelive, he said: “It’s not only me. I think the team have been working really hard.
“We’ve all done brilliantly and it’s a massive achievement for everybody at the football club.
“Not just that, for the fans, the people of the city and everybody connected with Newcastle itself.
“It’s just brilliant. We deserve it and we can enjoy it now.”
Newcastle are sitting on 41 points in the table and can even climb to ninth if they beat Everton on Merseyside next Monday.
Diame said: “We’re still going to try to finish as high as possible in the table.
“As I have said before, we have to enjoy winning for a few days but after that focus on the next task in hand.
“We have to start work again this week and look to Everton.”
Diame also feels Newcastle will have to replicate their work everywhere on the pitch if they are to beat Everton.
When asked if the game was won in midfield against Arsenal, he said: “It was won everywhere in every department.
“We had to be brave and we knew what we needed to do to achieve that.
“Now we have to do it again.”