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Eddie Howe has been chatting with the media following yesterday’s 4-0 win over Leicester Metropolis at St James’ Park.
It was a much-needed victory and dominant show, the place a Jacob Murphy brace, one other purpose for Alexander Isak and Bruno Guimaraes’ first of the season helped us see off the Foxes in fashion.
The boss described it as a “large win” that offers us a “large raise” heading into Wednesday evening’s Carabao Cup quarter-final at residence to Brentford.
Curiously, Howe additionally admitted that “there was numerous stress on the gamers” going into the sport, with the media questioning our lack of consistency and fan’s pissed off by our second half collapse in that 4-2 defeat on the Gtech final Saturday.
With that in thoughts, Howe was delighted by their response and our potential to answer that “pressured second”, feeling we had “a little bit of all the pieces” in our efficiency, exhibiting high quality at each ends of the pitch, athleticism and technical high quality.
“I assumed there was numerous stress on the gamers in the present day, that wasn’t misplaced on me. You go from that efficiency final week, all the pieces was arrange for us in the present day to reply numerous questions and you continue to need to ship it towards a really harmful workforce with a brand new supervisor.
“It was an amazing response in that pressured second,” Howe added. “Good indicators from us mentally as a result of we’ve acquired to take care of that stress.
“The primary purpose is essential as a result of we knocked on the door with a variety of possibilities and didn’t take them till two actually good set performs. It goes to point out the significance of these moments. Actually performed with the primary two targets.”
“It’s an enormous win for lots of causes however this week with two residence video games and the significance of each video games,” Howe mentioned. “We wanted to start out effectively and this offers us a large raise.
“It was essential we responded to the Brentford efficiency in the appropriate approach and I assumed we did, proper from the beginning of the sport I assumed we seemed engaged and mentally switched on to offer a extremely athletic and technical efficiency.
“We had a little bit of all the pieces in the present day, good attacking and defending and there have been numerous optimistic responses to the frustration of final week.
“The outcome was a very powerful factor and naturally the way you get the result’s massively essential particularly off the again of the current weeks that we’ve had so to create numerous possibilities, to attain 4 targets and maintain a clear sheet are all big issues for us.
“It’s been a extremely good day however we have now to verify we get up tomorrow and we’re completely centered on our subsequent recreation to ship the identical product.”
Hopefully this isn’t one other false daybreak and we construct on this subsequent week, with two extra essential video games simply across the nook towards Brentford and Ipswich.
