What felt like an inevitable FA Cup exit on the quarter-final phases has come to move, however Newcastle weren’t precisely blown away – even when it felt like Metropolis might have upped the depth at any stage in the event that they wanted.
The fact is 2 deflected first-half objectives largely put the sport past Newcastle from an early stage. Metropolis did have a number of clear-cut probabilities however they did not pepper the Newcastle aim and, on the different finish, Alexander Isak had two huge openings he did not convert.
The first difficulty for Newcastle was solely managing two photographs on aim and, regardless of some first rate urgent, didn’t carry sufficient of a menace.
Newcastle’s non-internationals now head off to Dubai and Eddie Howe will hope one other warm-weather coaching camp delivers the upturn in type it did in every of the previous two seasons. Languishing tenth within the Premier League, they want a powerful finish to the marketing campaign to safe European soccer for subsequent season.
That’s now all Newcastle must play for, in any other case this exhausting season will simply peter out.