Bournemouth Turn Up Heat On Howe With Dramatic Late Win At Newcastle

Is this nan infinitesimal a unsmooth spot turns into a afloat blown situation for Eddie Howe? Newcastle’s head has now presided complete 4 consecutive defeats and pinch his squad stuck successful 14th spot European qualification now looks eager successful nan extreme.

Howe has ne'er beaten his aged Bournemouth broadside successful nan Premier League and was forced to watch, glumly, from nan method area arsenic Andoni Iraola’s players extended their unbeaten Premier League to a nine grounds 13 games, rising to eighth successful nan process.

If nan news that Iraola is to depart nan southbound seashore successful nan summertime intelligibly grounded to disrupt nan visitor’s upward trajectory, Bournemouth’s pleasingly fluent shot and sharp, slick transitions simply emphasised really far, and alarmingly, Newcastle person regressed since past month’s Champions League thrashing astatine Barcelona. By nan extremity galore of those booing nan squad disconnected would doubtless beryllium very happy if Iraola were to switch Howe this summer.

Bournemouth were up successful nan 32nd infinitesimal when, pinch Sven Botman suffering a attraction outage, Marcus Tavernier slid successful to unit a menacing debased transverse from nan fantabulous Rayan complete nan statement from adjacent range.

As Howe stared blankly into abstraction nan stadium fell silent but it had ne'er been that noisy. This had small to do pinch protagonist ignorant and was overmuch much astir nan incoherence and passivity of Newcastle’s play. It speaks volumes that 1 of nan biggest cheers of nan first half was successful consequence to Bruno Guimarães stepping disconnected nan chair and mildly jogging up and down nan touchline.

Guimarães is still convalescing from a operation of wounded and unwellness but nan Brazil midfielder still looked much move than his teammates. Indeed Newcastle were highly fortunate not to concede a 2nd extremity erstwhile Evanilson’s faulty relationship saw him nonstop Alex Scott’s fantabulous transverse conscionable wide from 2 yards out.

Djordje Petrovic’s sole important first-half prevention saw him do good to claw Lewis Hall’s deflected free-kick to information conscionable arsenic it seemed group to creep crossed nan statement but different Howe’s players were utterly listless.

The smattering of boos that greeted nan half-time whistle tin person travel arsenic scant astonishment to Newcastle’s manager. His origin was hardly helped by Hall’s struggles to subdue Rayan and Harvey Barnes’s nonaccomplishment to dodge nan likewise awesome Álex Jiménez.

With nan talented 19-year-old Eli Junior Kroupi further destabilising nan hosts, Howe had overmuch to ponder astatine nan interval. He replaced Hall pinch Kieran Trippier and Tino Livramento switched to left-back.

Marcus Tavernier gives Bournemouth a first-half lead from Rayan’s cross. Photograph: WM Sports Media/Action Plus/Shutterstock

How Newcastle’s head could person done pinch Anthony Gordon astatine his champion but nan inconsistent England winger was absent pinch a “minor injury” astatine nan extremity of a week of aggravated transportation speculation linking him pinch a summertime move to Bayern Munich.

Something evidently had to alteration though and conscionable aft nan hr people Howe replaced nan ineffective Anthony Elanga and Jacob Ramsey pinch Jacob Murphy and Guimarães. Newcastle’s aesculapian squad had advised nan head against involving nan skipper but Howe evidently decided he could not do without nan midfielder immoderate longer.

His quality succeeded successful lifting nan St James’ Park temper and Sandro Tonali’s pleasance astatine his return was reflected successful nan buss connected nan feature he gave Guimarães arsenic he handed him nan captain’s armband.

Shortly afterwards William Osula equalised pinch Guimarães nan somewhat fortunate creator. As nan second drove guardant Evanilson’s situation ended up inadvertently putting Osula through. All that remained was for Newcastle’s existent first-choice centre-forward to evade Petrovic’s grasp aft cutting successful connected his correct foot.

Although nan extremity was initially disallowed for an offside against Osula, Evanilson’s involution ensured that, aft a magnitude video adjunct referee review, nan extremity stood.

If nan Denmark Under-21 striker’s poised decorativeness emphasised why he is now up of £124m worthy of attacking talent successful Nick Woltemade and Yoane Wissa successful Howe’s frontline pecking order, nan manager’s luck did not clasp for excessively long.

Barely had nan celebrations subsided than Livramento pulled up nursing a hamstring propulsion and was replaced by Dan Burn.

Howe’s sky would soon move moreover bleaker. When Evanilson headed down Tavernier’s looping transverse nan shot fell kindly to Adrian Truffert wrong nan six-yard box. A swipe of a footwear later nan left-back had scored his first extremity for Bournemouth and Newcastle’s play was ruined.