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.

00:06But I have seen it. It's still there. It's still part of us.

00:08When 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.

00:18But 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 seven, eight games, our performances by the Sunderland game have been much better.