Eddie Howe rued a “horrible feeling” for Newcastle United, after a expensive “freak purpose” of their defeat by Sunderland.
The guests had been crushed 1-0 on the Stadium of Mild, the place Nick Woltemade’s second-half own-goal settled the Premier League’s first Tyne-Put on derby since March 2016.
Newcastle got here into the sport having collected 10 factors from their final 4 league matches, and had the prospect to leapfrog their native rivals within the desk.
Nevertheless, the Magpies had been severely missing a innovative, registering simply two pictures on track as their unbeaten league run in opposition to Sunderland stretched to 10 matches.
Certainly, the sport had the fewest pictures (11) and lowest anticipated targets (xG) complete (0.53) of any Premier League match this season. The 11 pictures had been the fewest in a single match within the competitors since March 2023 (Aston Villa v Crystal Palace).
“It was not our most interesting sport,” Howe instructed Sky Sports activities. “The trouble was there, however the high quality was not. It was a sport of actually few probabilities determined by a freak purpose, and we couldn’t create the opening we needed.
“The purpose got here at a extremely dangerous time, and was dangerous in its building. Nick has not meant to do it, but it surely has determined the sport. I assumed we had defended fairly nicely.
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“The standard was lacking in each halves, we had been disenchanted with our artistic output. There was extra depth and extra bravery on the ball after the adjustments with out creating the probabilities, and their goalkeeper was not overworked.
“We all know how a lot this implies and all of the deal with in the present day was large. We tried to ship our greatest efficiency, and we haven’t completed that.
“We really feel disenchanted in ourselves and that we left one thing on the pitch, and that’s a horrible feeling.”
Newcastle’s distress was compounded by an damage to Dan Burn, who was pressured off within the forty first minute following a collision with Nordi Mukiele.
“Dan Burn has gone to hospital for a verify of his ribs,” Howe added. “So hopefully, he can be OK.”
