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Alan Pardew has rued his Newcastle side's injury list after their 3-1 win defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford on Friday (December 26).

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"The difference between the two sides was the cutting edge of United. They were really good going forward. When we over committed they were clinical. They didn't have a raft of chances today, our goalie only made one save from (Antonio) Valencia and other than that, not too much to do. But we would have liked to have put more pressure on them and got more out of the game."

"We've got two home games and we need to try and take four points from those games to stabilise our position and then get some players back. We've got too many players out and the margins are too tight. We've got nine senior players not involved today and it is too many. I've had that for a good two and a half months now. I've got my medical team under full jurisdiction to get some bodies back and maybe in January we need to get one or two in to make sure we push on until the end of the season."