Shola: 'Regard Lesser Teams As Arsenal'!

30 November 2010 17:29
Shola Ameobi says Newcastle should look upon the smaller teams in the Premiership as though they are Arsenal or Man Utd. Shola Ameobi: "It's a little annoying our best performances keep coming against the best teams, and then we drop points against the others. "When we play the top teams, I think we're naturally a bit more cautious. We have a good shape and we limit them to a few chances. "We are a lot more solid and we don't let them play, but we have to take that into every single game. "When we have played a team we feel we should be beating, we've been a little bit too gung ho and left ourselves open at the back. It's about getting that balance right. "We are still finding our feet back in the Premier League and we're not quite there yet. We're learning from these experiences, but we have to take that forward. "It was a good point in the circumstances. "We had to take the pain of Bolton. You can't just forget about something like that and brush it under the carpet like it didn't happen. "It hurt and it wasn't until Tuesday afternoon that we closed that game down as a team. It was vitally important for us that we did that. We had to learn from the mistakes and then we had to focus on putting it right. "It felt good to get that sort of point against a team as good as Chelsea's after the result the previous weekend. We needed a big performance from everyone, they are they reigning champions and it was never going to be an easy game. "We had to be at our best, we had to dig in at times and I thought we were brilliant at doing that. This team has the right attitude and it does the right thing after a setback. We've got some great characters in the dressing room who want to do well, want to win and want to succeed."

Source: FOOTYMAD