Two Players For Newcastle United Eddie Howe Tried To Run Out Against Bournemouth But Was Unable To

 

Sean Longstaff and Fabian Schar of Newcastle United are being evaluated after it seemed like they were knocked out in the team’s 2-0 loss to Bournemouth.

For Saturday night’s journey to the South Coast, the Magpies were shorthanded by 12 senior players, 10 of whom were out due to injury. Things worsened thirty minutes into the game when Miguel Almiron pulled out due to a hamstring problem.

However, it appears that the worries didn’t end there because Schar and Longstaff also needed medical attention. Howe acknowledged that he was “unclear” about their injury status after they had played for ninety minutes.

Asked about Almiron, Schar and Longstaff, Howe told BBC Sport: “I don’t know. Miguel Almiron’s looks like a hamstring problem but I don’t know how serious that is. We won’t know for a few days.

“It’s unclear how Fabian Schar and Sean Longstaff are feeling.”

He added: “There’s a couple of players in an ideal world we’d have taken off earlier today but we couldn’t, we weren’t in a position to do that. That a sign of how stretched we are.”

With Callum Wilson adding to Newcastle’s injury problems pre-match, Howe named three under-21s players, Amadou Diallo, Alex Murphy and Ben Parkinson, on the bench, while 17-year-old Lewis Miley was handed his first league start.

Parkinson was surprisingly brought on for his Premier League debt in the final half an hour, while Matt Ritchie, Tino Livramento and Emil Krafth were also used off the bench.

The lack of options was a cause for concern before the game, Howe admits.

“No criticism of the young guys who came onto the pitch today,” said Howe. “Lewy Miley and Ben Parkinson, I thought they did well. It was a tough environment for them. Bournemouth played well and we didn’t.

“That was a concern before the game that we didn’t have the options to change the game if we needed to and with Miggy’s injury that become worse for us,” said Howe.

“We’re just going through one of those moments where we’re going to be tested, we’ve got a really tough schedule, a lot of injured players. It was probably a game too far.”