Alan Shearer says he is more relaxed after Newcastle United defeat to Aston Villa as he breaks down reasons for loss

Newcastle United suffered a heavy defeat to Aston Villa on Saturday evening, bringing another winning streak to a sudden stop.

Alan Shearer had previously said on The Rest Is Football that following the Carabao Cup win, he didn't care about the remaining games of the season, something that Gary Lineker took great delight in pointing out this week as being very untrue.

While Shearer laughed off the accusation pointing out that he's still laughing and smiling and that he's more relaxed after a defeat these days, his tone soon shifted when discussing the game.

As we've said, Aston Villa beat us at our own game on Saturday and we can have few complaints about the scoreline. They could have several complains as it should have been more, but we'll take what we got, thanks.

Alan Shearer says Aston Villa were 'outstanding' on Saturday evening

Alan Shearer echoed our sentiments by saying Aston Villa had more energy and simply wanted it more.

"Villa were brilliant. Villa did to Newcastle what Newcastle have done to a few teams over the past couple of months. They just overpowered them. They had more energy.

"Villa had far more energy, they won every challenge. They were better in every position, really, and Villa battered Newcastle. Actually, it should have been a few more. They were absolutely outstanding, Villa were."

Hello Alan Shearer, we're so glad you like reading our website!!

Shearer then went on to mention the dilemma facing Jason Tindall with team selection that we also pointed out, in that if he changed the starting XI and we'd got beat, people would have kicked off, and the fact that he didn't change it and we got beat is still a reason people kicked off. He couldn't win.

I'm not saying that Alan Shearer reads NUFC Feed, but everything he said about that game is what we said over the weekend. So, just in case ... Hi, Alan!

I mean, it could be that both he and I are simply stating the obvious, as it doesn't take a UEFA coaching badge to see what went wrong on Saturday.