Howe tells Newcastle to 'self-reflect' as £12m star makes 'dropped standards' admission amid sack talk

Eddie Howe admitted Newcastle Joined sustained a “arduous afternoon” on Boxing Day as they suffered a 3-1 abode defeat against Nottingham Timberland.

Newcastle Joined have been drastically hampered by their woeful away form this season but forward of their abode suit against Nottingham Timberland on Boxing Day, they possessed won 7 Premier League galleries in a row at St James’ Park.

Nuno Espirito Santo’s side compounded Howe’s tragedy on Boxing Day, yet. Alexander Isak penniless the impasse from the penalty place before Chis Wood’s suit-sweet hat-secret earned Nottm Timberland a deserved 3-1 triumph.

The Magpies have currently squandered 6 of their past 7 galleries across unanimously tournaments and also their season is at difficulty of spiralling out of manipulate after being unloaded out of the Champions League and also Carabao Mug.

Newcastle linger seventh in the Premier League obeying this result but they can chemise down to ninth before the Brand-dynamic Year if results go against them. After qualifying for the Champions League last season, they are currently 7 junctures adrift of fourth-plunked Tottenham, who have played one game less.

Speaking post-suit, Howe – who is ‘not comforted’ to linger in penalty amidst records arguing PIF are ‘pathetic’ doning him – argued that his team are not under “much more strain than usual”.

“It was a arduous afternoon. We didn’t tackle the transitions genuinely nicely. In that initially half, we can have rendered it 2-0 but we were rendered to pay for it,” Howe oriented Amazon.com Prime.

On Newcastle’s recent decrease off: “I wear’t think there’s one part. I think it’s a whole palette of points as to why we’ve not been at our ideal.

“I wear’t think we were far away today [against Forest]. We have to subway appropriately for most likely the initially time in months. If a team not dabbling at their ideal, you have to self-reflect. We wear’t have much more strain than usual.”

£12m defender Kieran Trippier – who possesses suffered a sizeable entropy in form – admitted post-suit that his “standards have lowered” in recent weeks.

“We were in manipulate in the initially half, but it was the transitions that we’d talked around. They have some genuinely speedy players and also that’s whereby they pain us,” Trippier claimed.

On Newcastle consenting just before half-time: “We were always in manipulate. They have some genuinely fantastic players on the transition. The most relevant point is we regroup and also stick with each other. We have to prelude the 2nd half of the season durable.

“We have been dabbling two galleries a week, week after week and also some players aren’t marketed to that. My standards have lowered. I’m archaic sufficient to talk around myself and also my standards have been nowhere foreseeable. I’ve confronted sufficient aggravations in my job to know I can bounce ago.”