Newcastle's Man City thrashing a 'painful watch' for Howe

Eddie Howe was left deflated by Newcastle's lack of competitiveness in their 4-0 defeat to the champions

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00:00No, as I said, it was painful to watch from the sideline. You know that we were a yard

00:06off where we needed to be. We seemed to be reactive. We allowed their good technical

00:13players too much space. Now they do have outstanding players. And as I said, they're still, for

00:19me, I know a lot's been made of their run, but still for me, with the ball, they're the

00:24best team in the Premier League. And we've had some difficult games here, but we weren't

00:31competitive enough. We weren't in their face enough. And when you come up 50-50 against

00:36any direct opponent, we were losing too many of those battles and ultimately those things

00:40cost you matches.