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Howe on ten-man Newcastle's 2-1 manchester Utd win
04/03/2026
St james' Park, Newcastle, UK
04/03/2026
St james' Park, Newcastle, UK
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00:03Hi, Mike.
00:04Hi, Mike.
00:08Hi, Mike.
00:14Hi, Mike.
00:16Hi, Mike.
00:21Hello, everyone.
00:22Keith, do you want to get us started, please?
00:23Eddie, what an A.
00:24What an A.
00:26What a goal from Willis.
00:28Can you sum up for us at all?
00:30The goal. Everything.
00:32Yeah, a massive win for us.
00:35I think we needed it.
00:38We know we needed it.
00:39It's been a tough run for us
00:41in the Premier League.
00:44I think some of our performances
00:45haven't been too bad
00:47in recent games, but we've
00:49found a way to lose games when we maybe
00:51shouldn't have done.
00:52And today we've started the game really well.
00:54And then, of course, we get a red card and
00:58there would have been an easy
00:59feeling for the lads to adopt that
01:01feel sorry for ourselves. Here we go again.
01:04And that's the biggest compliment I can give the lads.
01:06They've really stood up in that second half and
01:07they've all given more.
01:09They've all believed that we can win the game.
01:11And so a brilliant end to the game.
01:12It's one of the best emotions
01:15that I think I felt.
01:16And I'm sure a lot of people will say the same.
01:18But also, we haven't done that enough.
01:20And hopefully that's a goal that's replayed quite a bit
01:22because I think Will deserves it.
01:24You talk about your emotions there.
01:26I wonder what was going through your mind as
01:28Will Asula was taking it down the touchline.
01:30He almost fell over.
01:31You're clicking into the 90th minute.
01:33Do you want him to go for the corner flag?
01:35Or do you want him to go for a goal at that stage?
01:37Given you're down to 10 men and I've been for a long time.
01:39I think the first thing I want to do is keep it in.
01:42There was a moment where I thought
01:43he's going to run out of grass and it's going to go out of play.
01:46So I think he does really well to keep it in.
01:48And then, no, I think in that moment,
01:49I'm not trying to be wise after the event.
01:51You sort of back Will's ability.
01:53That's one of his biggest strengths, running with the ball,
01:55his pace.
01:57The biggest thing is he's got such a long way to travel.
02:00He's got to try and not get fatigued in that last few steps
02:03when he's going to go to shoot and he doesn't.
02:05You've probably heard already.
02:06Will asked after training yesterday for 10 more balls.
02:10He wanted 10 more finishes and a carbon copy of the goal he scored today.
02:13He scored eight out of 10.
02:16So, thankfully, I think that work and that's all credit to the player
02:19because he wanted it.
02:20He wanted to do more before he went in.
02:22I'm a great believer in do the work, you get the reward.
02:26I'm delighted for him personally.
02:27And that second half, you won that second half with 10 men,
02:30the entire second half.
02:32I suppose that's the biggest compliment you can play and you can pay your side.
02:35Yeah, because I thought we were excellent in the first half.
02:39I thought we were really good.
02:40That was us somewhere near our best level again.
02:42We were quicker with the ball today.
02:44We were combining well with each other.
02:46I think it was a really good feel about the team.
02:49But, of course, then sort of things unraveled.
02:51We scored.
02:52Well, we had a man leave the pitch.
02:56We scored, we concede, and then we got a big second half mentally
02:59to get ourselves back in the right frame of mind for him.
03:03We've got players that have run through brick walls for this football club
03:06and they did so again tonight and I can't praise them enough.
03:08Thanks, Keith.
03:09George Colfin.
03:11Can you please give us, word for word, what your instructions were to Will
03:15when he comes on in the 18th minute?
03:18It wouldn't make much sense because in that moment it's quite a stressful situation.
03:25So, my words were, well, I'm not going to give you the whole...
03:30Basically, we needed to be compact off the ball.
03:33And that's what we'd done really well second half.
03:35The lines between our units were really good.
03:37We hadn't given them a lot of space to play through us.
03:39We'd forced them wide quite well.
03:41So, we wanted to keep that while changing systems.
03:44So, that's what we did.
03:47And then Will was sort of the lone counter-attacker on his own.
03:50Now, that's very difficult to do against any team,
03:54yet alone, you know, the stage of the game that it was.
03:57And Manchester United were quite dominant at that stage with the ball.
03:59So, he had one moment really to show his legs and he did the rest.
04:03And this has been an epic season.
04:06It just feels like nothing comes easy or nothing is coming more easy for you.
04:12And this is like that season, that feeling in the microphone, isn't it?
04:15Yeah, I'd agree with that.
04:16I think we have that feeling ourselves that nothing,
04:19everything is so hard to...
04:21Any win is hard to get.
04:26Things sort of look like they're conspiring against us at times,
04:29and we've got to really stand up and fight for everything that we're getting.
04:32But, yeah, it's one of those spells for us.
04:37A slightly different feel today where, you know,
04:39we're indebted to Aaron to make a number of really good saves for us.
04:42I think they're pivotal moments in the game.
04:44But I just thought our collective mentality to defend our goal was a lot stronger today.
04:48A lot of blocked shots, a lot of bodies on the line, a lot of sort of hallmark of us
04:51at our best when we're defending properly.
04:54So, I thought that was a big step forward as well.
04:56Now, we've got to Ian Kieran and then the lead, please. Ian?
04:59Eddie, sending off seemed a bit iffy to me. Do you know what you thought?
05:05I thought very iffy, in my opinion. I think Jacob's gone down to simulate or mislead the referee in any
05:11way.
05:12I think he's maybe anticipating contact. It doesn't calm. He loses his footing.
05:16I think you've got to be really careful before changing the game in that way like the referee did
05:22and sort of ruin the game to a degree as a spectacle, although maybe not from our side at the
05:27end
05:27because we've got the result we wanted. But the game is very different, a lot slower.
05:32Yeah, I thought it was a poor decision personally.
05:38I think so because I think it changes the game so much and negatively, in my opinion.
05:44When you see any numerical difference between teams, the game changes poorly, for my opinion.
05:50There was less transitions. Obviously, we couldn't attack in the same way. So, yeah, I think that would be useful.
05:58Thanks, Ian.
06:03Yeah, I don't know. I think, yes, you're right. Historically, that's always been the case.
06:12It's one of the great fixtures in English football. I think just for tonight, it's an evening game for us.
06:18The crowd are brilliant for us tonight. That makes a huge difference.
06:23You know, the afternoon game, three o'clock against Everton, where the pitch is a bit slower, is a more
06:27difficult game for us.
06:29The crowd were huge. That plays its part. They lifted the players. The players lifted the crowd.
06:34It was a two-way thing and that ending, as I said earlier, just an amazing moment for everybody
06:40because we haven't done it enough. We haven't scored enough late goals to win games.
06:44We've had the feeling the other way around. It's great to, again, get a good one for us today.
06:49Thank you. That's Lee, Tom and Scott. Lee?
06:52We've talked about transfers that you can't do a lot, but Aaron Ramsdale is probably one you can do.
06:58You're in the box seat to sign. Is that a great example of what you can bring with this club
07:02longer term?
07:04Yeah, I think with Aaron, we've signed a goalkeeper, of course, that we know and we've worked with before.
07:10But I think Aaron, when you compare Aaron now to the Aaron that signed for the club,
07:15I think he's done an incredible amount of work and training with the goalkeeper coaches.
07:18Huge amount, obviously a lot more than Nick. Nick's been playing.
07:21His training has been dramatically reduced, whereas Aaron's not been playing.
07:25So I think credit to Aaron and the goalkeeper coaches for the amount of work they've done.
07:30And Aaron's attitude to his work, I think, has been faultless. So he's been improving.
07:35His training performances have been really good. And in part, that's why he got his moment today,
07:38because I've been hugely impressed by how he's working behind the scenes,
07:43how he's been around the club. He's top draw, great person.
07:47And delighted for him that he gets that moment today to make those saves
07:50and really make the difference for the team.
07:52Can you go on much longer without Q and Tripp here?
07:55Because obviously he's out of contract as well, but tonight that was immense for him.
08:00It was. I mean, vintage Kieran, really, he was feeling cramp and feeling the effects of the speed of the
08:05game,
08:06as a number of our players were. And that's where you've got to remember, he's playing every week.
08:13It's a tough physical challenge for someone who's 21,
08:15yet alone someone who's Kieran's age. And I thought he was magnificent for us today.
08:21Not just in how he played, but his experience, his game management, his know-how,
08:26his little things that people might not see. His experience is invaluable to us.
08:31So big congratulations to him.
08:32Thanks, Lee. Tom?
08:34I will assume he's statistically the fastest striker in the Premier League.
08:37Some pundits have said maybe he needs to slow things down, not be so...
08:41After what he did tonight, what would you say about that?
08:44It's a difficult one because he is a player that sort of plays that way.
08:49Again, I don't know if you can take people's natural game away from them.
08:52I think you turn them into a player that's not as effective.
08:54There are moments, of course, where you maybe want him to be calmer in certain moments,
09:00but that's all part of his development. He'll learn that as he gets older.
09:03He wants to score in every moment with every touch, which is a great thing.
09:07I don't want to change that from him.
09:10He's very keen to impress. He wants to show everybody how good he is.
09:14Again, I wouldn't change that in him.
09:16I just think it's a natural process of improvement.
09:20I think fundamentally the most important thing is he wants to do it.
09:23He wants to do the work.
09:24And as I said, he's been probably when he's been fit,
09:27he's been one of the hardest working members of the squad this year.
09:34I think it was just Cramp with Sandro.
09:36Again, another player that's playing every week, who's executing everything.
09:38We've got a lot of players that are maxed out.
09:44We've got to be careful, we've got to manage the squad.
09:46We've got so many big games to come and we don't have a deep squad.
09:50So, yeah, interesting squad selection and decisions for the weekend.
09:55Thanks, Tom.
09:55Scott and Martin, please.
09:57Lots of different players we've been talking about.
09:59Again tonight, Jordan, just kind of really setting the tone
10:03and being the heartbeat of everything that you did.
10:06I mean, he gives you so much, doesn't he?
10:09As a leader and as a kind of talisman for everyone else
10:13to run behind when he plays like that.
10:14Yeah, when he plays like that, he's almost like two players.
10:19He's an incredible player.
10:21When he's fitting at his best, and again, he's a player that we've lost recently
10:25and we've got to be really careful we don't lose him again.
10:28I mean, I've probably executed more game time for him than maybe I wanted to,
10:33but he's so important to the team.
10:34We need him at that kind of level, which takes a lot to get a player into that level
10:40and try and keep him there.
10:41So, fingers crossed he can stay fit and continue in the manner that he's played the last few games.
10:46Martin?
10:47And he just looked at everything in the first half-injury time.
10:50Did he see where all those minutes came?
10:53No.
10:53I was thinking the referee was going to blow probably three, four minutes earlier than he did.
10:57I think when we were going through one counter-attack, I'm thinking,
10:59don't blow, let the game go on.
11:02And then they come back the other end.
11:03I'm thinking, come on, that's got to be time.
11:05And it wasn't.
11:06So, yeah, tough moment for us to concede right on half-time.
11:11And again, that's where the red card, the goal conceded.
11:14The players at half-time did really well, I have to say.
11:17To stay mentally present and just put that behind them
11:20and then concentrate on the second half, I thought was excellent.
11:22Could you use that as a sentiment just that it's just a half-time
11:25and they have to calm the players down?
11:27No, I think it's just a case of resetting that.
11:29I don't think necessarily it's worth talking about that with the players.
11:34I think it's about what we're going to do, how we're going to play in the second half.
11:37We made a tactical change, we made a substitution.
11:39We felt we needed a little bit more solidity in the middle of the pitch.
11:44While still trying to give them a threat with two strikers, so we changed what we did.
11:48I thought the guys executed it really well.
11:51Any more? No? Thank you.
11:54Thank you. Thanks very much. Thanks a lot.
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