Howe insists Newcastle have maintained their intensity despite indifferent form

Eddie Howe insists his side still retains the intensity his previous squads have been renowned for.

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00:00I think it's certainly been more difficult for us to do that when you're playing every two to three days

00:05but I have seen it, it's still there, it's still part of us

00:08if you look back at that Chelsea first half that was as intense as I've seen us play for possibly ever

00:15I thought it was a brilliant 45 minutes from us

00:17but yeah there have been some games where I've looked at this and we haven't had that

00:21but there can be a multitude of reasons for that

00:23I think it's easy to look at the result and sort of go down that way of thinking

00:28I thought generally the last 7-8 games our performances by the Sunderland game have been much better