‘We need to deal with this’: Howe urges Newcastle to get over Barça thrashing | Newcastle United

Eddie Howe urged his Newcastle gamers to get well shortly from the 7-2 thrashing at Barcelona that ended their Champions League curiosity on the final‑16 stage, going out 8-3 on mixture.

Anthony Elanga scored twice in reply to objectives from Barça’s Raphinha and Marc Bernal within the first half, earlier than a penalty from Lamine Yamal in first-half stoppage time. Newcastle collapsed within the second half, with additional objectives from Fermín López, a Robert Lewandowski double and one other for Raphinha racking up an embarrassing scoreline.

“I’ve no downside choosing myself up, it’s extra the gamers,” mentioned Howe, whose aspect face Sunderland within the Premier League on Sunday. “I’m able to transfer fairly shortly by issues, by video games and the assessment course of. Now it’s all about Sunderland.

“It isn’t about at this time, it’s about ensuring we’re mentally and bodily prepared to enter an enormous recreation. I believe it’s a great recreation for us to enter.

“Sunday is large. It’s tough for me to speak about it now. We’ve simply bought to play like our lives rely upon it. It’s such an enormous recreation for town, for the supporters, for the gamers, for the entire membership. We have to cope with this in a short time and look to Sunday.”

Howe insisted that there have been components of his group’s efficiency that have been constructive as they took the sport to Barcelona and scored twice within the opening 45 minutes on the Camp Nou however he admitted that they by no means overcame the psychological blow of conceding with the ultimate kick of the primary half and lamented the defensive errors that prevented them from main on the break.

“We gave them a very good recreation for 90 at St James’ Park and half the sport at this time. That ought to not all be forgotten, as tough because the scoreline is to see. That doesn’t replicate how the sport was,” Howe mentioned.

“Our defending was not on the degree it had been in opposition to Chelsea. The primary objective, two gamers slipped. Then there’s a set play. After which the massive second is the penalty. In addition to we performed within the first half – and I assumed we have been excellent, it was a terrific illustration of what we need to be – we made too many errors.

“If we had defended the best way we are able to, we might not have gone in at half‑time trailing. Then we conceded one other set play. The primary 4 objectives have been unusual from us: you may’t concede like that. The 2 set-play objectives are unforgivable in that they’re regulation. That may’t occur. I don’t assume psychologically we recovered [from Lamine Yamal’s penalty].”