to ensure it finished all square<\/a>, a result which leaves them on 10 points and in 12th place in the table when victory would have catapulted them into sixth.<\/p>\nTheir fate will be decided by a home clash with PSV Eindhoven and a trip to holders Paris St Germain next month and Howe is hopeful they have given themselves a platform to progress.<\/p>\n
He told TNT Sports: “I think it leaves us in a good position. It\u2019s in our hands. We have two tough games to come but we\u2019ll look forward to playing at home and then, of course, a really tough one at the end which we knew was always there.<\/p>\n
“But all we can do is now focus back on to the Premier League. We\u2019re in a decent vein of form. We\u2019re not at our very best but we\u2019re improving and that\u2019s all I can ask of the players.”<\/p>\n
Howe will now turn his attention to Sunday\u2019s derby trip to Sunderland wondering what might have been on an eventful night in Germany.<\/p>\n
Newcastle once again fell behind from a set-piece when Robert Andrich headed a corner into the unwitting Bruno Guimaraes\u2019 back and into the net and they might have been reduced to 10 when Malick Thiaw was perhaps fortunate only to be booked for a foul on Patrik Schick.<\/p>\n
However, Anthony Gordon converted a 51st-minute penalty and then crossed for 19-year-old substitute Lewis Miley to score, only for Grimaldo to snatch a draw two minutes from time after the visitors had twice hit the post and Thiaw had seen his header brilliantly saved by Mark Flekken.<\/p>\n
Howe, who was unhappy at half-time, said of his side\u2019s second-half display: “I thought we pressed with more belief \u2013 I thought we pressed well in both halves, actually, and regained the ball a lot and I thought we had several opportunities to counter-attack and cause them more problems than we did.<\/p>\n
“But we eventually got our attacking game going and we could have scored more. It\u2019s a tough one to take because at 3-1, I think it would have been game over.”<\/p>\n
Gordon and his team-mates were once again left to bemoan their inability to hang on to leads after conceding yet another late goal.<\/p>\n
Asked the reason for that repeated failing, the forward told TNT Sports: “I actually don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s fatigue with all the games coming up that we\u2019re getting a bit tired late on in games, I\u2019m not too sure.<\/p>\n
“But listen, it all comes back to mentality. We\u2019ve got to be strong, we\u2019ve got to hold off in those games because top teams do.”<\/p>\n
Howe has a fresh injury worry ahead of the short trip to Wearside after midfielder Joelinton came off after complaining of discomfort in his groin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Howe is confident Newcastle’s Champions League fate remains in their own hands despite seeing two priceless points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-186394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}