Underdog spirit crucial for Poyet

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Underdog spirit crucial for Poyet

Even before the 5.30pm kick-off at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, a win for the visitors would not have lifted them off the foot of the Premier League table and then, when Samuel Eto’o opened the scoring after 12 minutes, it looked like the Champions League semi-finalists had the relegation certainties pinned down ready to be mauled.

But goals from Connor Wickham and Fabio Borini, the former Chelsea striker ironically now owned by Liverpool who may have been gifted the title thanks to his late penalty, spun the relegation battle on it’s head with Poyet’s team now three points from safety. Cardiff await the Tyneside club but Poyet fears his side will struggle at the seemingly easier challenge than the previous two against matches versus a pair of the world’s richest sides.

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