Newcastle news: Eddie Howe aims to cure team’s ‘inconsistency’

Eddie Howe hopes to find a solution to the “inconsistent” spells between and during games which have been a feature of Newcastle’s season.

The Magpies responded to a heavy defeat at Manchester City by beating Nottingham Forest 4-3 at home on Sunday.

Newcastle scored four goals in a blistering first-half period, but Forest fought back from 4-1 behind at the break and almost earned a point.

“The challenge we need to pose each other as a group is to find solutions in those moments to help the players,” Howe said. “That’s what I’ll go away now and try to figure out.

“This has happened too many times this season, where we’ve been inconsistent game to game, but we’ve been inconsistent in-game as well.

“Ultimately we’ve won the game so I have to be very pleased. That was a tough game – we knew it was going to be – but the players were magnificent in their response to conceding, so loads of good stuff to take away and of course some stuff to improve.

“We need to know when we go to Liverpool [on Wednesday] what we’re going to get. Our learning and future growth is going to be, even within games, finding that way of playing that we don’t deviate from.”