Understandably so.<\/p>\n
Alexander Isak sat out the opening weeks of the campaign, but the striker did not complete his British-record move to Liverpool until deadline day and replacements Yoane Wissa and Nick Woltemade are going to need time to fill the void for differing reasons.<\/p>\n
Wissa is a proven Premier League player, but the former Brentford forward is set to be out with a knee injury until after the next international break in October while record signing Woltemade is adjusting to the physicality of the top flight following his \u00a369m move from Stuttgart.<\/p>\n
Though Woltemade got off the mark on his debut, against Wolves, there was a recognition behind the scenes that the German will understandably need an adaptation period.<\/p>\n
There were a couple of glimpses of Woltemade’s tidy link-up play against Bournemouth and, at one point, the new arrival wriggled away from Marcos Senesi down the right only to see his cross easily claimed by Petrovic.<\/p>\n
Woltemade also had a penalty appeal waved away in the second half after he had his shirt pulled by Bafode Diakite.<\/p>\n
But this was an afternoon where Newcastle, as an attacking force, struggled to fire.<\/p>\n
Newcastle actually had more touches (18) inside the opposition box than Bournemouth (16), but Djordje Petrovic ultimately had just one save to make – and that was in the opening stages when he kept out Jacob Murphy’s close-range shot.<\/p>\n
The game was finely poised when both sides made double attacking changes midway through the second half – Howe threw on Anthony Elanga and Harvey Barnes – but it was Bournemouth who were pushing for a winner late on.<\/p>\n
Howe was the first to recognise that Newcastle “didn’t get our attacking game going” as he reflected on his side not having a shot in the second half.<\/p>\n
“It’s not good,” he said “You want to create chances and clear cut chances.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Understandably so. Alexander Isak sat out the opening weeks of the campaign, but the striker did not complete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-35402","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\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}