Newcastle fans are starting to tackle Howe. Six losses from the last seven question marks doesn’t sound good

Last year’s match at St. James’s Park ended 3-3, this time the favoured Manchester City won 3-2. Newcastle were 2-1 up at half-time and even after the change of sides, the opposition didn’t look at their best. But then Kevin de Bruyne came on and won his teammates the three points.

Saturday’s battle in Newcastle was basically a classic Manchester City game this season. Pep Guardiola’s charges dominated, but failed to add an insurance policy and had terrible passages of play. The worst one was converted by the opponent into two goals in the space of three minutes.

De Bruyne scares in the warm-up

The cure for the inability to decide the game seemed to be Kevin de Bruyne. With his arrival, suddenly centres were really flying into dangerous areas, not ending up on defending players. The goal and assists are perhaps less important than the Belgian’s impact on the team’s game.

It was only his second league start since the start of the season, having been unavailable since August due to health reasons. But it didn’t show.

On the contrary, the talented Norwegian Oscar Bobb struck in the setup just after his pass. His first Premier League goal came at the best possible time.

Newcastle fans unhappy with Howe

Despite the battling performance, rather negative opinions are spreading on the Magpies fan portals. Newcastle have won only three points in the last seven rounds and lost six times. In terms of current form, they are the worst of all the teams in the league.

“On and on we just wallow in the mire. Now we’ve got Aston Villa coming up and we know what our away form is like. I’d say the Howe-Tindall duo have met with Bournemouth-like exhaustion,” alluded Magpies supporter Lukas on the Magpies Facebook fanpage to the sacking of coach Eddie Howe after the 2019/20 season.

The dissatisfaction is mainly with the defensive performance, which is 20 goals worse than last year after 21 rounds. “Admittedly a brilliant pass by KDB but what about the way Trippier defended. Really should have played Kraft one game instead. This is textbook post-match analysis,” reacted fan Martin to the long term poor defensive performance of captain Kieran Trippier.

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