Hard lesson dealt to Eddie Howe’s side as they are beaten twice in a fortnight by the Germans
. Once they can add a little craft to their graft, a little depth to a squad still stretched thin by a relentless schedule. Once they work out how to break down teams who do not simply let themselves be bullied. In short, once they work out how to win games like this.
And so Eddie Howe was forced into a little selection gymnastics. Alexander Isak would have been the perfect striker for this game, but he was out. So Callum Wilson continued, looked patently off the pace and had just four touches before being withdrawn at half-time. Kieran Trippier and Tino Livramento were paired together on the right flank for the first time, but both looked far better when Trippier moved to the left in the second half.
Somehow Newcastle made it to half-time, where Howe donned his medical gloves and tweezers and set about patching them up as best he could. Off came Wilson. Off came the struggling Lewis Hall. Anthony Gordon and Miguel Almirón replaced them, and immediately Newcastle looked a more awkward prospect: more bodies in the centre, a higher press, more runners from deep and more varied angles of attack.
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