We can beat ANYONE! | Eddie Howe | Newcastle 2-1 Man City

Football

Year2025

Duration14m

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A jubilant Eddie Howe revels in his first victory over Pep Guardiola as Newcastle edge Man City 2-1 at St. James’ Park. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:01 The response you needed and wanted? It was, we had a long wait in between Brentford and today which was good because it allowed us to reflect and work. The players didn’t let us down. We played such a good opponent. A really high level game. 1:10 Barnes, missed two, scored two? Harvey never gets affected by missing. His record as a wide player is unbelievable. I’m really pleased for him he’s a great person and great individual. 1:45 satisfaction from that game? I take satisfaction from winning. We needed a positive result today. We were playing the best team in PL over the last god knows how long. 2:20 Kickstart the season now? We want to try and build momentum and confidence back to where it has been historically. The feeling after West Ham and Brentford was as bad as I’ve experienced. The lads deserved it. 3:00 need that edge? Yeah you need that, for me that’s doing everything it takes to win. 3:30 Fullbacks back, new team dimension? The individuals create the team. Hall’s technical ability, that was a great performance from him. Tino physically looked unbelievable. 4:15 Fabi and Malick deserve a lot of praise today. They got their positioning spot on. 4:40 Thoughts at half time? With Pep and historically you understand he potentially likes to mix things up, I was thinking what they’d do next. It’s a game of chess! HT is a very busy time but you need a coolness of head to figure out the best strategy. I thought our defensive shape was really, really strong. 5:45 You’re always looking for things that can work against City. Telling you what does work against them is a very small piece of paper. 6:20 Record against City, do you fixate upon that? Not really no, I go the opposite way. We’ve come really close in different games and for whatever reason it hasn’t happened, today it did. The margins today between winning and losing were s