SORRY FOR OUR PERFORMANCE | Eddie Howe | Sunderland 1-0 Newcastle

Newcastle boss Eddie Howe apologises to fans after his side lost 1-0 away to local rivals Sunderland. Timestamps 0:00 Always difficult to take, does that sting? That’s going to sting for a long time. We know our performance was off of what it needed to be. Unfortunately the one big moment goes against us. It was a bizarre goal to concede 0:40 Criticism to follow? It comes with every defeat. Sorry for our performance. It certainly wasn’t a lack of effort. 1:20 How’s Nick? I hope he won’t take it personally. He’s gone back with good intentions it’s just an unfortunate moment and I don’t hold him responsible. 1:45 struggled to create any type of threat? I can’t critique that for the first 60 mins especially Our quality was not there I try to be honest at all times We hold our hands up and say that wasn’t good enough We didn’t sustain pressure well enough 2:55 This can’t define the season can it? I don’t think any game can define a season It’s been a season of stop starts for us it feels We haven’t quite grabbed the momentum Momentum in terms of PL is lost 3:40 We have lots of signs that we try to get through to the players We’ve done pretty well over the following seasons to get to what we want to be I take full accountability Disappointed for the fans 4:15 We have to use this to find the consistency we’re looking for I don’t think today was like Brentford or West Ham defeats 4:45 Was it plan to sit in for first half? It was our plan to be solid and compact we certainly wanted to be dominant with the ball but that didn’t happen The second half we wanted to be aggressive but we conceded so early To a degree the pressures in the game changed when we were 1-0 down 5:30 I don’t think anyone’s gone out there with any intention not to win the game It’s not a perfect field for us currently but we should’ve played better 6:00 Burn? He’s gone to hospital he was struggling to breath at half time 6:20 Elanga? It wasn’t the finest day for any of our front players especially in th