Eddie Howe reveals why took Callum Wilson off at half-time as harm considerations develop

Eddie Howe has revealed that he substituted Callum Wilson at half-time as a ‘precaution’ after the striker felt one thing in his hamstring.

Newcastle have a mammoth process forward of them in the event that they wish to hold their Champions League hopes alive.

After back-to-back defeats to Borussia Dortmund, Howe’s aspect now sits backside of their group and nonetheless should play PSG in Paris.

To make issues worse, his aspect goes by means of an harm disaster with a number of gamers together with Dan Burn and Alexander Isak not within the matchday squad.

The English supervisor now should take care of one other potential difficulty as striker Wilson was pressured off at half-time as a ‘precaution’.

“I’ve by no means identified a state of affairs like this earlier than the place we’re dropping a participant a recreation on the minute,” he stated in his post-match press convention, through NUFC TV.

“Right this moment Callum simply felt a tightness in his hamstring so we took him off at half-time as a precaution to verify it didn’t worsen, so we don’t know the extent of that.”