Admitting that Newcastle has been somewhat lackluster recently. From a fairly good position, with a chance to advance to the Round of 16 in the UCL, they have experienced a significant downturn and were eliminated regrettably. In the match against Liverpool, I believe they made a mistake by choosing an offensive strategy against Liverpool, perhaps because they were trailing. However, going offensive against Liverpool is disadvantageous as Liverpool excels in rapid counter-attacks. So, Newcastle was easily defeated.
Newcastle suffered a setback due to the increasing injury crisis in the team, they have lost most of their starting players to injury and they still keep having players injured. Just before the match against Liverpool they lost trippier to injury again, a key player for them and it is the reason they have been lagging behind recently. They always put up agoid fight against stronger opponents but I guess Liverpool are more good offensively that’s why they couldn’t hold them but they put up a good fight anyway despite having so many injured players.
I would not be surprised by Newcastle defeat after previously knowing that many of the main players were injured and had experienced a decline in performance since then, which had consistently declined greatly. even though previously in the early stages of the season, Newcastle was able to appear impressive and had quite strong consistency, but things slowly changed to become very weak and Liverpool victory was guaranteed previous predictions because Liverpool is in quite good condition at the moment.
Eddie Howe has previously always been praised for being able to provide good consistency at the start of the season and this time the Newcastle coach must be under pressure to deal with this problem.
That's right, what is clear is that Newcastle's condition this season is not good, and their performance looks very bad in the matches they have played in recent times. It's true, at the start of the season Newcastle looked very good in terms of performance, maybe at that time no players were injured so their performance looked good. In my opinion, there are two possibilities for Newcastle's condition to decline, because of the player crisis due to the injury they experienced and their divided focus on the Champions League so that stamina becomes unstable and the situation becomes very bad. In the end they failed in both competitions.
However, in my opinion, Eddie Howe still looks good enough to be retained, because this problem is just an injury incident that they experienced in the squad and I am sure that this problem can definitely be solved by Eddie Howe. If the transfer season starts, this is a good opportunity to buy the players needed, so that they can replace injured players, so that the player crisis that Newcastle is experiencing is slightly reduced.
I agree with you regarding Newcastle's poor condition this season. Their decline in performance may be caused by a combination of player injuries and a disruption in focus on the Champions League. This can be an important factor that results in decreased team stamina and performance.
Before the storm of injuries befell many of Newcastle's core players, Newcastle's performance could be said to be promising enough to compete at the top of the standings, so it would not be right to blame coach Eddie Howe for failing to handle Newcastle.
once again I agree with you, the opportunity to buy players in the winter is the right decision, to be able to improve the team's performance, and I'm sure if many of the core players return to fitness and new players are added then what the team needs I'm sure Newcastle will bounce back, At least compete in the European League, because breaking into the top 4 will be very difficult because the distance in the standings is already difficult to cover.