{"id":350200,"date":"2025-12-15T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350200\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:21:07","slug":"sunderland-1-0-newcastle-wayne-rooney-analysis-on-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350200\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland 1-0 Newcastle: Wayne Rooney analysis on Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former England striker Wayne Rooney believes Newcastle have been poor at times this season and it really showed in their 1-0 defeat by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunderland<\/a> in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought Newcastle were poor tactically,&#8221; Rooney said on The Wayne Rooney Show. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen them do much this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There weren&#8217;t that many tackles and Sunderland were better than them in every department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunday&#8217;s game was the first in the Premier League between the fierce rivals since 2016 but Rooney felt it bore hallmarks of further back in time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It felt like a game from the 90s where the quality wasn&#8217;t as high as we see today,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but the passion, that fight and drive was there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You could feel the anticipation and how tense it was and that&#8217;s why I enjoyed the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/play\/p0mg6g32\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on BBC Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England striker Wayne Rooney believes Newcastle have been poor at times this season and it really showed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-350200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}