Howe's Biggest Newcastle Challenge Yet? Can He Survive?

Rare extended periods connected nan training pitches are not yielding an betterment successful results aft a relentless schedule yet eased.

Howe again based his squad action connected what he had seen during nan week arsenic he named Newcastle's youngest starting XI successful a Premier League crippled since 2005 pinch an mean property of 24 years 191 days.

Although skipper Bruno Guimaraes would person started if he was fresh capable aft recovering from unwellness and injury, it was still striking that not a azygous personnel of Howe's activity group lined up from nan disconnected aft Nick Pope, Dan Burn, Trippier and Jacob Murphy were named among nan substitutes.

A whopping £124m worthy of forwards successful Nick Woltemade and Yoane Wissa besides had to make do pinch places connected nan bench.

William Osula erstwhile again justified that telephone pinch his 2nd extremity successful 2 games, but Newcastle are an progressively blunt broadside lacking aggression, value and ideas.

They are besides leaky astatine nan backmost - and that is simply a vulnerable operation for each nan incorrect reasons.

It said it each that moreover aft Newcastle equalised done Osula midway done nan 2nd half, Bournemouth head Andoni Iraola told his players "not to panic" from nan touchline.

He knew location was still clip for different twist arsenic Truffert hooked nan shot into nan tile of nan nett precocious on.

Truffert was 1 of a bid of smart signings Bournemouth made past summertime arsenic nan nine rebuilt superbly pursuing nan income of Dean Huijsen, Milos Kerkez, Illia Zabarnyi and others.

Newcastle, by contrast, are still reeling from a mediocre window.

Not only are Newcastle failing to spot overmuch of a return from a £100m-plus nett recruitment thrust that Howe was heavy progressive in.

Newcastle are still searching for a lasting solution aft striker Alexander Isak pushed to subordinate Liverpool past summer.

Over nan people of a draining season, Howe has pivoted from Woltemade to Wissa to Anthony Gordon and now Osula, who came mightily adjacent to joining Eintracht Frankfurt connected deadline time past September.

It sums up Howe's hopeless hunt for a lasting look arsenic his early comes nether expanding scrutiny.

"It's disappointing erstwhile you are not delivering for your supporters," he said.

"That is nan eventual disappointment erstwhile you consciousness you are letting group down who travel present and support us.

"If they are captious of us, we person to judge that arsenic that's nan crippled we are in."