'Full of passion', 'Deserves more' – Newcastle fans react to Mitrovic display v Nottingham Forest

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23 Aug 2017, 4:45 pm

By Harry Sykes

Newcastle's season lurched deeper into disaster with a shock defeat to Nottingham Forest in the Carabao Cup at St James' Park.

Striker Aleksandar Mitrovic put the home team ahead in just the third minute of the game, with a powerful right-footed shot from the centre of the box.

It was a fantastic start for the Serbian striker in front of the Newcastle fans, but he couldn't kick on and find a second.

Instead fans had to watch as Championship club Nottingham Forest scored two in two minutes to take a shock lead.

Rolando Aarons equalised before half-time and that was how the game ended, with the tie taken into extra time.

There, Nottingham Forest's Tyler Walker found the winner and avoided the pain of penalties, plunging the Toon faithful into yet more despair.

One player they still found time to praise though was Aleksandar Mitrovic, who is currently fighting for his Newcastle future.

Manager Rafa Benitez doesn't seem to rate him enough to start him regularly, but the Toot fans love him even if he couldn't fire them into the third round of the cup tonight.

Here is a selection of their reactions on Twitter:

Would like to see Joselu and mitrovic play together like #nufc
— David Hartshorn (@David_H_UK) August 23, 2017

Mitrovic and Aarons should start against west ham 👍
— Ronny Kumar Glesnes (@kunoglessi) August 23, 2017

Mitrovic and Aarons #nufc pic.twitter.com/Ix36PpXH1r
— Ryan Patterson (@ryanp88) August 23, 2017

Mitrovic best striker in the league.
— Adam. (@adamnufc_) August 23, 2017

I don’t want to be all Robby Reactionary but Aarons and Mitrovic playing better then the guys who started in their spots for PL games
— Producer Phil ⭐️ (@_HeyYoPhil) August 23, 2017

Mitrovic and Aarons both on the scoresheet. Two players who, in my book, should be starting at the weekend in the PL. ⚽️❤️ #NUFC #Deserved
— Jordan Knill (@Kniller_) August 23, 2017

Get Aaron's and mitrovic starting Saturday two young good players chomping at the bit!
— Lewburns1 (@Lewburns1) August 23, 2017

Lovely by mitrovic. He should be staring for Nufc. Our best striker.
— Ronny Kumar Glesnes (@kunoglessi) August 23, 2017

There we have it. Mitrovic is the best striker we've had since Shearer. Disagree? Don't care. #NUFC
— 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh Mag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@welsh_mag) August 23, 2017

Mitrovic and Aarons pending medIcal evaluation should start on Saturday, if not questions must be asked, full of passion and determination.
— Dichael Monnelly 1984 is here. (@michael19731984) August 23, 2017

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