{"id":390336,"date":"2026-01-25T22:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390336\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T22:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:09:09","slug":"bruno-guimaraes-why-cant-newcastle-win-without-brazilian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390336\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Guimaraes: Why can’t Newcastle win without Brazilian?"},"content":{"rendered":"

That wait goes on, but a defeat should not exactly have been a foregone conclusion – even if Aston Villa<\/a> are flying in third place.<\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> were fresh from defeating PSV Eindhoven 3-0 in the Champions League in midweek.<\/p>\n

They had not been beaten at home in the Premier League since the end of September, scoring at least two goals in each of their previous eight top-flight games at St James’.<\/p>\n

The hosts were facing an Aston Villa<\/a> side who had only touched down from Istanbul in the early hours of Friday morning following their Europa League tie against Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n

And Howe’s men certainly had their chances to strike.<\/p>\n

The game had not long kicked off when Sandro Tonali weaved past three Aston Villa<\/a> players only to be denied by the foot of goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, while fellow midfielder Lewis Miley saw a header clawed away as his side pushed for an equaliser.<\/p>\n

Howe paid tribute to the pair for having “good games”, on an afternoon he also lost another Brazilian, Joelinton, to a groin injury.<\/p>\n

But the Newcastle<\/a> head coach tellingly rued the absence of another midfielder post-match.<\/p>\n

“It’s not necessarily a slight on them,” he said. “I just thought we missed Bruno’s forward thinking.<\/p>\n

“He always wants to pass forward and is always looking for a creative pass. You could see we missed that today.<\/p>\n

“He always wants the ball and he’s always demanding the ball from his team-mates. They’re massive qualities, and then there’s his never-say-die spirit and attitude, too.”<\/p>\n

There have been countless examples.<\/p>\n

When Newcastle<\/a> were 3-2 down against Leeds United<\/a> in the 90th minute earlier this month, Guimaraes scored a late penalty to draw his side level before they went on to, somehow, win the game.<\/p>\n

When it was goalless in matches versus Crystal Palace<\/a>, Burnley<\/a>, Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> and Nottingham Forest<\/a>, the 28-year-old opened the scoring.<\/p>\n

Guimaraes even popped up with a late winner against Fulham<\/a> back in October.<\/p>\n

Yet Newcastle<\/a> never looked like producing a similar moment as Sunday’s game went on, and forwards Yoane Wissa and Nick Woltemade mustered just a measly shot between them.<\/p>\n

The hosts lacked the guile to unlock a stubborn defence once again in the second half – just a week after failing to find the back of the net against bottom of the table Wolves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is worth noting Guimaraes was in the side that afternoon.<\/p>\n

“There’s no point me thinking we need another type of player at this moment because it’s not going to happen,” Howe said. <\/p>\n

“The next chance we will really have to change the squad will be in the summer. It’s about getting the best out of the players we have.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That wait goes on, but a defeat should not exactly have been a foregone conclusion – even if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-390336","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}