· January 18 2025, 17:41
Newcastle United had been outclassed, outrun and outgunned by a Bournemouth crew that simply appeared to need it extra at St James’ Park on Saturday lunchtime.
Bournemouth left St James’ Park with three factors after hammering Newcastle 4-1, and in reality, it might have been much more than that.
Proper from the primary whistle, it was clear that Bournemouth had been simply up for it. They had been the primary to each ball, their passing confirmed extra intent and so they had Newcastle on the again foot instantly.
The Magpies had spells the place they had been on high, however for probably the most half, the urgency that had outlined their play throughout that spectacular nine-game successful streak was sorely absent. Even when on the ball, we lacked any sort of concepts to attempt to break via the Bournemouth defence.
Eddie Howe blamed the busy fixture schedule for as we speak’s defeat
The sport did come round rapidly for Newcastle with it being the third recreation in simply six days, however Bournemouth had 11 first-team gamers lacking and had a bench full of children. If you wish to play the excuse recreation it was pretty even.
Talking after the sport, Eddie Howe instructed NUFC TV was requested if Bournemouth performed Newcastle at their very own recreation. How disagreed and went on to say that he would not put this defeat all on the gamers because it wasn’t that they weren’t attempting, it was that they had been knackered.
“That is their recreation, their recreation’s their recreation and so they executed it a lot better than we did as we speak and we’ve to acknowledge that and settle for that after which attempt to repair that for the subsequent recreation.
“I do not assume we’ll go too onerous, initially, on the gamers as a result of I feel it simply regarded like bodily we had been out on our ft, so I feel it is only a bodily difficulty greater than the rest.”
Newcastle cannot deal with three video games in every week – what are we going to do subsequent season?
That is the squad depth difficulty rearing its ugly head once more, and but we nonetheless will not spend this month to usher in reinforcements.
That is not a lot a dig on the membership, both, by the best way, that is the frustration with PSR coming via once more. It’s wanting very seemingly that we’ll be in Europe once more subsequent 12 months and enjoying three video games every week would be the norm once more, and if that is how we deal with it, we have got an actual downside.
PSR won’t permit us to spend as a lot as we have to so as to have the ability to compete on all fronts subsequent season because the addition of 1 or two gamers completely won’t reduce it.
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