Eddie Howe has been chatting with the media following at present’s 4-2 defeat to Brentford, bemoaning our terrible defensive efficiency and apologising to Newcastle United followers for such a poor show.
It was a whirlwind begin as targets from Mbeumo and Wissa had been cancelled out by Isak after which Barnes, however our second-half show was flat and filled with extra defensive errors, the place a sequence of fundamental errors allowed Collins to make it 3-2 earlier than Schade made it 4 in stoppage time.
Howe’s apology to followers
In a message on to followers after the sport, Howe issued an apology to Newcastle supporters, vowing to place issues proper after defeat left us twelfth within the desk and nearer to Leicester in seventeenth than the highest 4:
“I’m actually sorry for what we delivered,” Howe stated. “We’ll work as onerous as we will to place that proper. There was a willingness to win and battle however I don’t assume it was robust sufficient.”
The boss then spoke to the media about our surprising defensive effort, the place particular person and collective errors had been blamed as Brentford scored 4 to make it 4 video games with out a win for Newcastle:
“Very disenchanted with how we defended at present. The 4 targets we conceded we’ll look again on with remorse as a result of it wasn’t simply particular person errors, it was collective errors for all of the targets, particularly the third aim.
“We’ll look again and cringe”
Discussing our defensive effort on the Gtech, Howe didn’t maintain again when assessing the targets we conceded, saying we’ll “cringe” on the variety of errors when gamers finally watch the sport again.
Chatting with NUFC TV after the match, Howe additionally stated: “The targets we conceded, we’ll look again and cringe. Poor defensively. All of the targets featured three or 4 errors. Defend like that and also you gained’t win any sport. You’ll be able to’t defend like that.
“We weren’t cohesive as a staff and we didn’t assist one another – and we bought punished.
Subsequent up, Newcastle face Leicester Metropolis at St James’ Park in every week’s time, adopted by a cup quarter-final at house to Brentford the next Wednesday.