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Rare extended periods on the training pitches are not yielding an improvement in results after a relentless schedule finally eased.<\/p>\n
Howe again based his team selection on what he had seen during the week as he named Newcastle’s youngest starting XI in a Premier League game since 2005 with an average age of 24 years 191 days.<\/p>\n
Although captain Bruno Guimaraes would have started if he was fit enough after recovering from illness and injury, it was still striking that not a single member of Howe’s leadership group lined up from the off after Nick Pope, Dan Burn, Trippier and Jacob Murphy were named among the substitutes.<\/p>\n
A whopping \u00a3124m worth of forwards in Nick Woltemade and Yoane Wissa also had to make do with places on the bench.<\/p>\n
William Osula once again justified that call with his second goal in two games, but Newcastle are an increasingly blunt side lacking aggression, quality and ideas.<\/p>\n
They are also leaky at the back – and that is a dangerous combination for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n
It said it all that even after Newcastle equalised through Osula midway through the second half, Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola told his players “not to panic” from the touchline.<\/p>\n
He knew there was still time for another twist as Truffert hooked the ball into the roof of the net late on.<\/p>\n
Truffert was one of a series of smart signings Bournemouth made last summer as the club rebuilt superbly following the sales of Dean Huijsen, Milos Kerkez, Illia Zabarnyi and others.<\/p>\n
Newcastle, by contrast, are still reeling from a poor window.<\/p>\n
Not only are Newcastle failing to see much of a return from a \u00a3100m-plus net recruitment drive that Howe was heavily involved in.<\/p>\n
Newcastle are still searching for a lasting solution after striker Alexander Isak pushed to join Liverpool last summer.<\/p>\n
Over the course of a draining season, Howe has pivoted from Woltemade to Wissa to Anthony Gordon and now Osula, who came mightily close to joining Eintracht Frankfurt on deadline day last September.<\/p>\n
It sums up Howe’s desperate search for a formula as his future comes under increasing scrutiny.<\/p>\n
“It’s disappointing when you are not delivering for your supporters,” he said.<\/p>\n
“That is the ultimate disappointment when you feel you are letting people down who come here and support us. <\/p>\n
“If they are critical of us, we have to accept that as that’s the game we are in.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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