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After 9 straight wins, a superb finish to 2024 and excellent begin to 2025, Newcastle United suffered their first defeat since early December after being completely outplayed by Bournemouth.
We went into it hoping to bolster out top-four hopes, see Eddie Howe develop into the primary Toon boss to win 10 in a row and for Alexander Isak to edge nearer to Vardy’s document of objectives in 11-straight league video games, however we bought nothing of the kind.
Nearly as good as Bournemouth had been, it was a reasonably woeful show everywhere in the pitch and filled with misplaced passes.
Talking to the media after the sport, Howe didn’t precisely maintain again in his evaluation, saying we had been “devoid of vitality” and “off it in each space” of the pitch.
“We didn’t have complete management in any part. They had been higher than us and by no means allowed us to search out our rhythm. That’s not the extent we’ve performed at. We had been devoid of vitality. I don’t suppose any of our recreation survived. We had been off it in each space.”
“Technically and bodily we weren’t the staff we’ve been. We had been off. We began slowly and didn’t ever play with the depth we normally do. I don’t suppose we ever had management of that recreation at present.
“(There was) an actual downside athletically. You might see we had been fatigued and by no means actually recovered from a poor begin to the sport and finally loads to replicate on from me.”
Howe continued, selecting out our conceding of possession in unhealthy areas: “We performed in areas that we normally don’t. We misplaced the ball quite a bit in the course of the pitch. It’s disappointing. We’ve been on an ideal run so we simply have to mud ourselves down and go once more.”
Dan Burn has additionally reacted to the end result and efficiency, accepting we “bought outworked” by a Bournemouth facet who had been higher than us “everywhere in the pitch.”
“Actually disappointing day. Bournemouth had been higher everywhere in the pitch. We bought outworked which was essentially the most disappointing factor for us.”
“I’d say to the followers to simply maintain getting behind the staff. We’ve been on an ideal run. We haven’t carried out the best way we needed to at present however we’ll proceed to do nicely and we’ll come once more.”
