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Scott Trotter

Every word Graham Potter said on Loftus-Cheek, Azpilicueta issue, Chelsea run and World Cup hope

Today was difficult, but a lot of fitness issues to manage before and during the game. Did that impact the result?

It doesn't make it any easier. Losing Ruben when we did and the Azpi was also struggling a little bit so we had to take him off at halftime. It doesn't make it easy against a team in a really good moment, playing with huge intensity and while I thought the first half was even, they started the second half better than us.

We had to adjust a little bit and we did that. Conor had an opportunity, Pope made a good save then Newcastle scored and we had to push again. I think we had too many unforced errors to maintain any real good quality and pressure. Again, credit to Newcastle, they're playing well, and they're in a really good moment. You can see probably the difference in schedules of one game a week versus the intense period we've had.

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