Newcastle\u2019s statement reads<\/a>:<\/p>\n\u201cWe are aware of a report of racism made by a visiting player against someone in the crowd during our Premier League match against Sunderland. Our stance is clear – we do not tolerate discrimination of any form. We will work with the authorities to fully investigate and will ensure any individuals are identified and held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eddie Howe reaction \u2014 Newcastle boss speaks after another Tyne-Wear derby setback<\/p>\n
What to make of loss? \u201cPainful, tough afternoon for us. Positive start. When we scored we wanted to go and dominate the game. We never really capitalized on that momentum. The first half fizzed out. Second half we were second best. Too many giveaways. Too many times we gave momentum back to Sunderland. Defeat\u2019s harsh on us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to really look at ourselves and make sure we learn from all the mistakes we made. It\u2019s happened to us before. This isn\u2019t a one-off. Yes there have been mitigating<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was so delicately poised. Sven hits the post. Malick\u2019s goal is chalked off. These are big momentum swingers for us. We wanted the second goal. We needed to defend our goal better than we did in the two moments we conceded.\u201d<\/p>\n
How do you respond to this? \u201cWe\u2019ve got some massive games to come. We get a chance to go into a different phase of our season. Week-to-week we can train and maybe get that freshness back into our performance. We\u2019re going into this on a negative so we\u2019ll need a lot of character to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still hope to reach Europe? \u201cWe\u2019ll never give up on anything. We\u2019ll always go for what we can. I want to see more domination of the ball and better chances. We have a lot to reflect on.\u201d<\/p>\n
On a pause in the game for alleged racism: \u201cWe don\u2019t condone any racism and it\u2019s something the club will investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Did the season catch up to you in the second half? \u201cWe\u2019re not looking for that excuse. We\u2019ve had a really demanding season but I though we were in control of the game. Second half we did fade away. We lost a lot of hope and a lot of confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
What happened in the second half? \u201cWe felt that we could control the game but we were never in full control in the second period. The decline in our performance meant that they arrived in an attacking force. We could\u2019ve done more. There were some really good bits in the first half. We wanted more chance creation. There were moments but not enough. The pain of losing this fixture is very real but we have to face this now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tough loss for everyone, painful; \u201cWe know that the pain that we feel is intensified by the supporters. We know how they feel. Being in our own stadium and having the lead, all we can do is try our best to recover as quickly as possible and focus on our next game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anthony Gordon reaction \u2014 Mentality a problem in second half<\/p>\n
Game fell apart in second half? \u201cThat\u2019s the team we\u2019ve been for too long now. The past few years we\u2019ve been the team to go on to 2-0, 3-0. The stadium gets a bit shaky when we\u2019re ahead. It\u2019s been a different kind of year for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Europe has asked a lot of you: \u201cIt does but I don\u2019t think today was a physical problem. We outran them and dominated them physically in the first half. Repeatedly this year the way we started the second half was a problem. We knew that \u2014 I spoke about it in the changing room before went out and still we were poor. It was just a mental thing. We let them in and we let them get comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Good chance to reset? \u201cWe\u2019re going to have to. That\u2019s what football\u2019s about. The next game is always the most important one. There\u2019s no denying this will be tough to get over for us and especially for the fans because we\u2019ve lost both games. But our job is try our best to make it up to them. I think the only way to do that now is to get in one of the European competitions and that\u2019s our main focus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Howe\u2019s glittering run at Newcastle United has now run into a Black Cat \u2014 or 11 \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-489616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489616","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=489616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}