Newcastle 0-0 FK Ventspils - Wor Oba

Newcastle have signed a striker. Yes! £10million for the speedy Nigerian who will be unveiled on Friday after his first training session. Just before kick off, Obafemi Martins was introduced to the crowd, he jogged out the tunnel and circled the centre of the pitch waving his Newcastle scarf around his head, it was brilliant. He looked ever so slightly more pleased to be here than Michael Owen did last year and seems to have a certain fun factor about him. With Shola only rated 60-40 for the Villa game on Sunday, we needed a striker fast, and we have a good one.

Newcastle 0-0 FK Ventspils

There was one mystery tonight, why didn't we score? United dominated from first whistle to last, our passing was good, our build up was good. You only need to look at the stats to see how much we dominated:

Newcastle had 35 shots - Ventspils had 2 (both blocked from outside the area).
Newcastle had 12 corners - Ventspils had none
Newcastle had 70% of possession.

Luque was to blame for many of our missed chances, he tried every shot with his left foot when sometimes it needed his right. Bramble, Duff, Emre, Parker, N'Zogbia, Luque, Carr and Babayaro all missed good chances, while Milner's 30 yard freekick crashed against the underside of the bar. It was a very exciting game that could have had 4 or 5 goals. Ventspils never once threatened without playing badly, to be fair they defended very well. Duff was an outstanding performer and thoroughly deserved his man of the match award. He tore Ventspils to pieces and created several brilliant chances only for Luque to waste them. We played very well and if we can play that against Villa on Sunday with a striker on two in the mix, we should win. But of course it will an extremely difficult game. The ever-evil Lawro predicting a toon defeat.

I am worried about the next game and I think we should all be happy if we remain undefeated.