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Newcastle's Pardew maintaining faith in misfiring Ba

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew is completely confident that Demba Ba will regain his goalscoring touch soon.

The Senegalese striker has not netted in nine matches for the Magpies but Pardew is ok with his form as he feels he is extremely close to again adding to his 16 league goals so far this term.

"The first goal at West Brom (on March 25) Demba must have been a centimetre away from scoring, and when (Papiss) Cisse scored the second goal, he was actually fouled as he was going to score and it fell to Cisse, so he has been a little bit unlucky," Pardw said.

"But he is on penalties, he will be in and around the free-kicks and he is working as hard as he has always worked.

"He is in great form, there's no lack of confidence. His goal will come and then this will all be forgotten."

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