'We have to learn': Furious Bruno Guimaraes says Newcastle United were 'sloppy' as they fell to another away defeat
Newcastle United once again threw away a lead away from home to come away with a defeat as Marseille reversed the deficit within five minutes of the second half restart.
Harvey Barnes put Newcastle into an early lead, and while the game pinged from box to box, the Magpies did create some good chances and could have added to their single goal.
Striker for the evening, Anthony Gordon, should have netted a second for Newcastle on the stroke of half time, but instead he showed us once again why he should never play as a centre-forward.
Then, a moment of absolute madness from Nick Pope, less than 30 seconds after the restart, saw Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang level things before netting the winner four minutes later.
Bruno Guimaraes couldn't hide his frustration last night
Speaking after the game, a clearly raging Bruno Guimaraes told BBC Sport Tyne & Wear that Newcastle were 'sloppy' in the second half and that they need to learn their lessons.
“I think we cannot explain.
“Just sloppy. I don’t know what happened, we all spoke in the changing room to start the second half like we did in the first half but this didn’t happen and it cost us the game.
“We have to learn. We have to learn, you know, with the amount of games that we have.”
Eddie Howe is the one who needs to learn the lessons from last night
The lessons most people learned last night were that it's definitely time that Nick Pope was dropped. His errors of late have been too frequent and too costly.
Another lesson that it seems only Eddie Howe needs to learn, as everybody else cottoned onto it months ago, is that Anthony Gordon is not a centre-forward. Yes, he can score goals, but only when cutting in from the left. It's what he's been doing his whole career, it's what he's good at, but it doesn't mean he knows how to lead the line.
I was hoping that a good kip would allow me to calm down and see things through more objective eyes, but nah, I'm still raging.
