Bournemouth 1-1 Newcastle United: Dominic Scurr reaction

Shields Gazette

Dominic Scurr reflects on Newcastle United's 1-1 draw at AFC Bournemouth in the Premier League.

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00:00Here at the Vitality Stadium where Newcastle United have drawn 1-1 with Bournemouth this

00:04Sunday afternoon. 1-1 doesn't tell the full story as it rarely does in the Premier League,

00:11but Eddie Howe said it was a fair result. I'd be inclined to agree with him, but I'm sure there

00:15were possibly 10,000 there or thereabouts Bournemouth fans who will disagree based on

00:21how things unfolded this afternoon. Newcastle actually started the game well, made two changes

00:27from the side that beat Southampton last weekend with Emile Craft coming in for the suspended

00:32Fabian Scheer and Lloyd Kelly making his debut, Lewis Hall dropping to the bench at left back.

00:39Newcastle started the game well, were on the front foot, then somehow lost control of the game,

00:45Bournemouth came into it. Their pace and intensity pushing forward really caused Newcastle some

00:51problems and unfortunately Bournemouth took the lead through a mistake really. Joe Linton concedes

00:58possession on the edge of the area, ball goes out wide, low ball in to Marcus Tavernier who

01:05taps it in, can't miss, against his former club. He was briefly at Newcastle's academy as a youngster

01:12but yeah, that gave Bournemouth the lead and Bournemouth probably deserved it for the best part

01:15of an hour anyway. They were the better team other than the maybe first 15 minutes or so.

01:21So yeah, for the majority of the game Bournemouth were probably the better side but Newcastle made

01:26changes. You saw Ciaran Tribiac come on for Tino Liveromento, Lewis Hall came on for Lloyd Kelly

01:32and all of a sudden Newcastle were 10 yards further up the pitch. Harvey Bonds came on as well for

01:38Jacob Murphy and then Anthony Gordon switched to the right side, Harvey Bonds on the left and Harvey

01:43Bonds was Newcastle's best player for the final 20-25 minutes and really making an impact, came

01:49close to scoring himself, then put a great ball in, Anthony Gordon who's had another frustrating

01:55game up until this point, great finish at the back post to draw Newcastle level and then Bournemouth

02:00had a couple of good chances straight after but then Newcastle looked like the side who would

02:05go on to win it. Big chances, Nedo Bournemouth had the goalkeeper to thank for keeping them in the

02:12game, saving from Alexander Isak, from Joe Linton, from Dan Byrne, really Newcastle should have found

02:19a winner from Bruno even in stoppage time but then it was actually Bournemouth who thought

02:23they'd won it and I thought they'd won it, Newcastle players thought they'd won it, Eddie Howe thought

02:27they'd won it. Corner, deep in stoppage time, Dango Wotora gets the ball in, I said he headed

02:38the ball in, I thought he did, actually hits off his shoulder or his upper arm and that is deemed

02:44on-field decision, a goal by David Coote but VAR know that is a handball by the letter of the law

02:52so must be disallowed and yeah I think if Newcastle score that goal we're kicking up a fuss,

02:58we're being very frustrated given the timing of it all and it was very close to the top of his arm

03:05but ultimately a handball, even watching the replays I wasn't overly convinced at the time,

03:10it wasn't until the VAR check was confirmed by handball where you go actually okay fair enough

03:15and then yeah Bournemouth fans not happy at all, can see why but welcome surprises Eddie Howe put

03:24it in the closing stages, it's Newcastle who possibly felt if the game had ended 1-1 they

03:31would have been a little bit frustrated but then because of that VAR decision they come away

03:35going look maybe got away with one a little bit there, it's another point, in the right

03:41direction and now two games unbeaten, two games into the season and away from home Bournemouth

03:48who Newcastle have not beat under Eddie Howe in the Premier League at least so yeah all in all

03:55probably a fair result but yeah the last 15 minutes where Newcastle equalised looked like

03:59they were gonna really turn the screw and then Bournemouth out of nowhere forced a late corner

04:05and think they've won it and then all of a sudden no still 1-1 and Newcastle head home

04:10longest journey home in the Premier League other than the reverse fixture Bournemouth will have to

04:15do at St James' Park later in the season, they head home with a point and now look ahead to

04:20Nottingham Forest in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night, Eddie Howe hopeful there'll be new signings

04:27before Friday's deadline day but wouldn't commit to anything in terms of names or anything like

04:35that typical Eddie Howe sort of non-descript transfer update hopeful but not expecting so

04:41yeah hopefully in the words of Eddie Howe we'll see some transfer activity in the coming days

04:46will that be Mark Gay, will that be someone else, will we see a surprise some players could leave

04:51the club and I thought it was interesting the goalkeeper situation today Martin de Brabca was

04:56left at home with a concussion according to the club picked up in training but Odysseus

05:02Vlachadimos new signing you would expect him to come in but actually no it was John Ruddy who came

05:09on to the bench and Max Thompson an academy goalkeeper traveled with the first team as well

05:15so yeah we'll see what comes of that the goalkeeping situation certainly a bit of a head

05:19scratcher but certainly not the big talking point from today because Newcastle have come away from

05:24Bournemouth still flattering to deceive in the Premier League so far last week was a bit of a

05:30write-off in terms of the performance just because they were reduced to 10 men but today

05:35you'd expect better from them given the quality players they had on the pitch but I thought

05:41once the changes were made once Kieran Trippier came on once Lewis Hall came on Harvey Barnes as

05:47well Joe Willock came on as well for Shaun Longstaff there was a lot more intent about

05:50Newcastle and there were a lot more recognisable so some room for encouragement there the point

05:57you take it given the circumstances and hopefully move on get through in the cup midweek get a

06:04signing or two in before Friday's deadline and then you all of a sudden heading into that Spurs

06:09game at St James's Park next Sunday with a bit of positivity because at the moment it's

06:14it's been maybe underwhelming in terms of the performances but ultimately a positive start to

06:18the season in terms of results where Newcastle sitting fifth which far too early to do that but

06:26if they finish the season they'll probably be fairly happy with that so yeah we'll have all

06:31the reaction from Eddie Howe to come the player ratings everything like that and also looking

06:37ahead to Nottingham Forest on Wednesday night over on the Shields Gazette so be sure to check that out

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