Rare extended periods on the training pitches are not yielding an improvement in results after a relentless schedule finally eased.<\/p>\n
Howe again based his team selection on what he had seen during the week as he named Newcastle<\/a>‘s youngest starting XI in a Premier League game since 2005 with an average age of 24 years 191 days.<\/p>\n Although captain Bruno Guimaraes would have started if he was fit enough after recovering from illness and injury, it was still striking that not a single member of Howe’s leadership group lined up from the off after Nick Pope, Dan Burn, Trippier and Jacob Murphy were named among the substitutes.<\/p>\n A whopping \u00a3124m worth of forwards in Nick Woltemade and Yoane Wissa also had to make do with places on the bench.<\/p>\n William Osula once again justified that call with his second goal in two games, but Newcastle<\/a> are an increasingly blunt side lacking aggression, quality and ideas.<\/p>\n They are also leaky at the back – and that is a dangerous combination for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n It said it all that even after Newcastle<\/a> equalised through Osula midway through the second half, Bournemouth<\/a> manager Andoni Iraola told his players “not to panic” from the touchline.<\/p>\n He knew there was still time for another twist as Truffert hooked the ball into the roof of the net late on.<\/p>\n Truffert was one of a series of smart signings Bournemouth<\/a> made last summer as the club rebuilt superbly following the sales of Dean Huijsen, Milos Kerkez, Illia Zabarnyi and others.<\/p>\n Newcastle<\/a>, by contrast, are still reeling from a poor window.<\/p>\n Not only are Newcastle<\/a> failing to see much of a return from a \u00a3100m-plus net recruitment drive that Howe was heavily involved in.<\/p>\n Newcastle<\/a> are still searching for a lasting solution after striker Alexander Isak pushed to join Liverpool<\/a> last summer.<\/p>\n Over the course of a draining season, Howe has pivoted from Woltemade to Wissa to Anthony Gordon and now Osula, who came mightily close to joining Eintracht Frankfurt on deadline day last September.<\/p>\n It sums up Howe’s desperate search for a formula as his future comes under increasing scrutiny.<\/p>\n “It’s disappointing when you are not delivering for your supporters,” he said.<\/p>\n “That is the ultimate disappointment when you feel you are letting people down who come here and support us. <\/p>\n “If they are critical of us, we have to accept that as that’s the game we are in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rare extended periods on the training pitches are not yielding an improvement in results after a relentless schedule…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-386323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386323","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=386323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}