That is because they don't have any decent strikers. They are a long way ahead of us in the 'chances created' figures. Same as Bournemouth, Watford etc. We are close to the bottomMB wrote:
They’ve scored barely a goal a game. Hardly attacking football!
We have scored more goals because our strikers (Arnie and Hernandez in the main) have been very efficient in front of goal. We are very functional. We don't create many chances but we score them. Think of some of the games we have won by a couple of goals - stoke, Huddersfield away, for example. We didn't overwhelm them, simply sat back and got them on the break.
It is a good job we have been efficient in front of goal because we are not a team like Palace who create chance after chance but miss them.
If Newcastle had hernandez instead of Dwight gale they would probably be top 8. And yet since Christmas they only have Dame and shelvey in midfield but have a good balance between attack and defence. That isn't by accident. Benitez has coached that into the team. Diame now knows where to position himself, yedlin can now defend properly