 Roeder was happy with Ameobi's strike against Everton |
Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder said Shola Ameobi's offside goal in the 1-1 draw with Everton was the result of researching the opposition's tactics. "We obviously prepare and watch the opposition and I noticed that on a few games recently Everton came screaming out on wide free-kicks," he said.
"We talked about it as we went out but it didn't happen as we planned because you will tell me he was a yard offside.
"We knew how to take advantage of Everton playing the offside trap."
Everton boss David Moyes kept a cool head in the face of Ameobi's controversial goal.
"It happens. I make mistakes and today the referee's assistant made one," he conceded.
"You could understand if the linesman was blocked and he couldn't see along the line.
"But if you look at it again, there was nobody at all in the line of his view."
Roeder, meanwhile, said he felt his side had squandered opportunities to win the match.
"In my opinion, the second-half chances came our way first," he said.
"If we took the good chances that came our way first, the chances that came Everton's way in the second part of the second half wouldn't have materialised.
"So we feel we've worked extremely hard, put a real shift in and only taken a point from the game."
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