There is no such thing as a doubt 2025 that can be etched in Newcastle folklore because the membership ended their 56-year-wait for a serious trophy with League Cup glory. Returning to the Champions League was additionally a seismic milestone.
Nonetheless, regardless of these achievements, boss Eddie Howe heads into 2026 despondent at how the yr has tailed off for his aspect.
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His 2 hundredth match in command of the Geordies resulted in big disappointment with a irritating 1-0 loss at laying naked his aspect’s struggles on the street.
They’ve received simply one in all their 9 away league video games this season and that 4-1 victory over accounts for a whopping 57% of their top-flight objectives scored outdoors St James’ Park.
That they had 44 touches in Manchester United’s field and put in 46 crosses – each of which had been season highs, however simply three of their 16 pictures had been on the right track as they registered a fifth top-flight clean away from dwelling this season.
Since 19 April, the one ever-present Premier League aspect with fewer away factors than the Magpies’ seven is with 4.
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“We’re discovering a technique to concede objectives once we do not appear to be we should always and we’re not scoring the objectives that we should always on the different finish. It is a lethal combine for us,” lamented Howe at Outdated Trafford.
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Burnley had been additionally left to rue an absence of a leading edge of their goalless draw with Everton. Additionally they had 16 pictures however not a single one was on the right track.
The Clarets are the top-flight’s joint lowest scorers in dwelling matches this season with rock-bottom Wolves additionally having notched a mere seven objectives in 9 video games.
They did a minimum of make it two video games with out defeat, steadying the ship considerably after their horror run of seven consecutive losses.
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However with this match marking the midway level of the season, Scott Parker is aware of his aspect have to show attracts into wins if they’re to trim the hole to security, which presently stands at six factors.
Their solely victories this season have come in opposition to fellow promoted sides and , and struggling .
The omens for the Clarets usually are not nice given Newcastle’s current document in opposition to them.
A Magpies victory can be their eighth in succession in opposition to Burnley, which might set a brand new outright membership document for consecutive victories versus an opponent within the high flight, surpassing the seven they’d additionally received in a row in opposition to Bury between 1903 and 1906.
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Additionally, Howe has received every of his previous two away league matches in opposition to Burnley, who he managed between January 2011 and October 2012. He may grow to be the primary former Clarets boss to win three matches in a row at Turf Moor.
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