{"id":395310,"date":"2026-04-12T21:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395310\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:39:07","slug":"crystal-palace-2-1-newcastle-howe-rapidly-approaching-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395310\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace 2-1 Newcastle: Howe rapidly approaching crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howe issued similar words after a bruising defeat against bitter rivals Sunderland<\/a> last time out.<\/p>\n

A response was sorely needed and the Newcastle<\/a> head coach attempted to jolt his side by wielding the axe.<\/p>\n

Stalwarts Dan Burn and Kieran Trippier were dropped as Howe made six changes and named a noticeably younger starting line-up.<\/p>\n

Aaron Ramsdale, Sven Botman, Joelinton and stand-in captain Jacob Murphy were the only starters over the age of 25, yet that was not the most striking aspect of this team selection.<\/p>\n

In a rather damning indictment of Newcastle<\/a>‘s recruitment last summer, which he was heavily involved in, Howe named just one of his five outfield signings in his starting line-up, defender Malick Thiaw.<\/p>\n

It meant that forward William Osula was handed a rare league start and selected ahead of \u00a3124m pair Nick Woltemade and Yoane Wissa, having come mightily close to joining Eintracht Frankfurt back in September. <\/p>\n

“I don’t pick the team based on transfer fees,” Howe said. “I pick the team based on what I see.”<\/p>\n

Despite a flat display from the visitors, it looked like those calls were going to pay off, after Osula repaid Howe’s faith with a well-taken opener.<\/p>\n

But a lack of control has been a recurring theme this season and Newcastle<\/a> have dropped more points from winning positions than any other team in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Football does not work like this, of course, but if Newcastle<\/a> managed to hang on and claim even 13 of the 25 points they squandered, Howe’s men would be joint-fourth in the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howe issued similar words after a bruising defeat against bitter rivals Sunderland last time out. A response was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-395310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395310","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=395310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}