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Plenty of reasons to be optimistic despite Tottenham loss

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Defensive Shape

Rafa Benitez is widely regarded as one of the best tacticians in the world and, for much of the game, his plan seemed to work. Newcastle were compact, hardworking and competitive, barely allowing Tottenham a sniff.

While the club’s search for a striker continues, they’ll clearly be hard to beat under Benitez, not a trait you’d often have associated with the Magpies all that much in recent years.

With pace on the counter and hopefully a marquee marksman arriving before the end of the window, the Toon at least have a solid base from which to build.

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