The Answer To Newcastle’s Problems Lies Within – Eddie Howe

Newcastle United manager, Eddie Howe has come out to warn his players to step up in training sessions. This is coming after Magpies suffered a home defeat against Forest, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, it is always an uncomfortable feeling when his team loses so many games in a row, but his gut feeling knows that the answer lies within.

Howe added that the decision-makings on the pitch have been off lately, and positioning must improve too.

His words, “Whenever you lose games it is an uncomfortable feeling when your team is not at its peak. Concerned? You deal with a lot of emotions when you don’t get the result you want. I am feeling that. I like to keep my thoughts and analyse properly and make tweaks and changes. My gut feeling is that the answer lies within. The players we have are good enough. We have suffered those injuries. We have not had it easy. We are not at our best physically.

We were not quite at our best and when you are not you get punished. There was a lot of good first half but the last action or pass was missing and that was frustrating. We wanted to make it 2-0 and in a commanding position. It has been an intense period. The players have physically given everything and we have acknowledged we have not been at our best and that is all we can do. We can now return to the training pitch for the first time in what feels like months. We need training ground time to refine missing parts of our game.

Some of our decision-making was off, positioning or technically. It wasn’t a big tactical issue, we didn’t deal with moments in the game. “I’ll be prepared to make any change that I think can benefit either the performance or the result and of course, players are accountable for what they deliver.

No amount of credit in the bank is big enough, you have to earn everything you get from the game. I’m a firm believer in that so players know they have to perform and we have to change our short-term form for sure. It will be nice to build up to games and training. I think we have suffered not having training ground time. And the inability to rotate the team has caught up with us.”