{"id":506396,"date":"2026-03-01T01:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506396\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:34:13","slug":"newcastle-2-3-everton-deja-vu-for-eddie-howe-after-another-premier-league-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506396\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle 2-3 Everton: Deja vu for Eddie Howe after another Premier League defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

To think Newcastle<\/a> kept five clean sheets in their opening seven league fixtures.<\/p>\n

In fact, it was at the other end of the pitch where Newcastle<\/a> had issues at the start of the campaign as they began life without Alexander Isak, who went on strike in an effort to force through a \u00a3125m move to Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By contrast, Newcastle<\/a> are now carrying a threat – Everton<\/a> goalkeeper Jordan Pickford had to make a superb save to keep out Sandro Tonali’s volley late on – but they look capable of “self-imploding”, as Howe recognised.<\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> have let in a whopping 23 goals since they kept their most recent clean sheet in a 3-0 win against PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League last month.<\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> will certainly have to tighten up, given the calibre of opposition they are due to face in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

“There’s always a time and place for stern words and now we take a breather,” Murphy said. “Let’s all reflect, look back.<\/p>\n

“First and foremost, we know where mistakes happened and we’ve got to go forward and try and iron them out.<\/p>\n

“We can’t get hyper-emotional every time something doesn’t go our way. It will just cause panic and that’s something we try to stay away from.”<\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> have lost three home league games in a row for the first time since Howe took charge of a relegation-threatened side in 2021.<\/p>\n

However, in a strange way, the visit of Manchester United<\/a> on Wednesday is just the kind of game that could trigger a response.<\/p>\n

The players certainly need no added motivation to get up for such occasions under the lights.<\/p>\n

The same can be said for home fixtures against Manchester City<\/a> and Barcelona in the FA Cup and Champions League respectively in March.<\/p>\n

But you never quite know what you are going to get from this side – and therein lies the problem.<\/p>\n

“We can raise our game when we need to,” Howe said. “I don’t think that’s a sign of a top team, though.<\/p>\n

“We have to be at that level all the time. The Premier League is so tough. The games are so difficult regardless of who you play or where you play.<\/p>\n

“If you are off, you are going to get punished.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To think Newcastle kept five clean sheets in their opening seven league fixtures. In fact, it was at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-506396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}