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A visit to Turf Moor must be a gimme for a crew which can be set honest to qualify for the knock-out levels of the Champions League. Particularly when they’re two objectives up inside seven minutes.
That Eddie Howe’s gamers spent a lot of the final hour hanging on for pricey life towards a Burnley facet that has now gone 10 video games with no win, and seem like heading again in the direction of the Championship earlier than the Christmas decorations have been taken down, illustrates the fragility of this Newcastle crew.
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Enjoying away from St James’ Park has been powerful for Howe’s males. This was solely their second win on the street in 9 video games.
Their behavior of shedding complete management of video games they’re dominating should give their supervisor sleepless nights. How can a crew with three exponents of the midfield artwork in Bruno Guimaraes, Sandro Tonali and Joelinton go from the elegant to the ridiculous within the blink of an eye fixed?
Howe hopes this vicitory generally is a turning level. “It’s an enormous win. It doesn’t matter how we did it, we simply wanted to do it,” the Newcastle supervisor mentioned. “It was an enormous second half for us and full credit score to the gamers for getting us over the road.
“We’re not at our most constant stage. It’s a confidence problem greater than anything, however the one approach to resolve it’s to win video games.
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“In a super world we might play with extra management and add to the scoreline. However we’re not a super world in the meanwhile. At present we did effectively. We weren’t excellent. It’s straightforward to say we should always have had extra management, however in the meanwhile we’re not on the psychological stage to do.”
The fact is that Newcastle have dropped 13 factors from profitable positions already this season. That statistic ought to have been compounded additional by Scott Parker’s crew.
All of it going to plan when Joelinton and Yoane Wissa struck early.
Newcastle wanted simply 70 seconds to go forward. Anthony Gordon’s cross from the left took a slight deflection off Kyle Walker to fall completely for Joelinton and the Brazilian was in a position to float a intelligent volley throughout Martin Dubravka, within the Burnley objective, and in off the far publish.
Then Barnes discovered area after drifting in from the other flank to check Dubravka with a low drive that the Slovakian couldn’t maintain. Wissa’s follow-up was someway blocked on the road by Kyle Walker, however the striker couldn’t miss when the ball fell his manner once more.
It was Wissa’s first Premier League objective for the North East membership and he ought to have had extra. He headed large from point-blank vary simply minutes after Josh Laurent had added momentum to Burnley’s response by thrashing house an exquisite volley within the twenty third minute.
Simply moments earlier, Walker had fairly actually knocked the guests out of their stride with an old school shoulder cost on Gordon that acquired house pulses racing.
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It took a determined goalline clearance by Fabian Schar to disclaim Marcus Edwards an equaliser earlier than the break.
Nick Pope saved from Edwards and Lucas Pires earlier than Laurent looped a header towards the crossbar and Loum Tchaouna nodded large from close-range.
As Burnley light, Malick Thiaw noticed his header cleared off the road by Bashir Humphreys and substitute Jacob Murphy blazed over earlier than Guimaraes sealed the deal in injury-time.
Parker mentioned: “We gave ourselves a mountain to climb, however till Newcastle scored their third objective we had been completely dedicated.
“There are some issues on this crew that I’m immensely happy with and a few issues that we nonetheless want to repair, however we’re in a dog-fight and we are going to hold going.”
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Then Harvey Barnes discovered area after drifting in from the other flank to check Dubravka with a low drive that the Slovakian couldn’t maintain. Wissa’s follow-up was someway blocked on the road by Kyle Walker, however the Newcastle striker couldn’t miss when the ball fell his manner once more.