Newcastle 0-1 Everton (Ramsey sent off 90+8 | Barry 49′)
Newcastle United were booed off at St James’ Park for the second successive game.
Let’s be honest – it wasn’t that visceral. Being jeered off implies real anger but what we saw at Newcastle United on Monday night was apathy – and that is much more worrying.
It’s five years since St James’ Park felt as flat as it did against Everton. That was before a takeover that transformed Newcastle United, turning them for a few seasons into a side who would give anyone a bloody nose, especially on Tyneside. But what we witnessed on Monday was a club regressing rapidly and a public not buying what the head coach is selling.
That, as much as the run of four defeats in five games, should be setting alarm bells flashing on the black and white dashboard. It’s not just the back-to-back home losses that are turning people off, it’s Matthias Jaissle’s entire style of football that is coming under increased scrutiny. To put it bluntly – the public are far from convinced, and that’s becoming an unwelcome problem for a hierarchy that are “all in” on a manager they paid more than £9m to extricate from his contract at Al-Ahli.
Yet again it was painful to watch Newcastle attempt to put his “vertical football” philosophy into practice against Everton. This is a team low on confidence and in the first knockings of a big rebuild. But it is a damning indictment that the system they are being asked to play seems to be diminishing them.
Jaissle is vexed by the lack of a natural “six” in his squad, despite Newcastle spending hundreds of millions on midfielders. But his answer against Everton was to play a “double six”, Nico Gonzalez and Joelinton asked to bring the ball from deep and get Newcastle up the pitch quickly.
It had worked well in training, we were told, where optimism was high that there would be a response to last week’s damaging Carabao Cup defeat to the same opponents. But it disintegrated quickly, Newcastle once again setting up in a system that left huge gaps in key areas that Everton were happy to exploit.
Newcastle now face a torturous run of fixtures (Photo: Getty)It was alarming how quickly things curdled. Long, aimless punts have become a feature in recent weeks and they were played with alarming regularity here – with an accuracy rate of 22 per cent. It’s a record that would make Neil Warnock blush.
Jaissle said afterwards that it wasn’t his plan. He talked in the post-match press conference of the players lacking the bravery to do what they’d spoken about all week and how the performance was unrecognisable from what they’d worked on. But diagnosing the problems is one thing – coming up with a solution for them is another thing entirely. So far the jury is very much out on that one.
Where do Newcastle go from here? The message from the top is that there will be no panic. But the run of games after Saturday’s must-win at Fulham is tortuous – Arsenal at St James’ Park, high-flying Brighton on the South Coast before a midweek visit from Manchester United that might well be under the charge of Eddie Howe by then.
Oh – and then comes a Tyne-Wear derby against Sunderland that already looks like a potential red letter day for the Newcastle manager.
It is unchartered territory for PIF, whose ownership has largely followed an upward trajectory. There has been bouts of mediocrity – last season’s slump under Howe caused disquiet – but their patience is yet to be tested. It is interesting that Jacobo Solis, PIF’s head of European investments and a key Newcastle board member, has remained on Tyneside to carry out meetings over recent days.
There is no desire to rip things up and start again but these are uncomfortable moments for the architects of “Newcastle 2.0”. Sporting director Ross Wilson oversaw a significant rebuild in the summer but most of his big recruitment picks aren’t being utilised by Jaissle. Aladji Bamba – first-team ready, according to sources in the summer – is miles away while Bazoumana Toure got three minutes. They cost a combined £76m.
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Exclusive: Newcastle squad hold talks with Matthias Jaissle over tactical concerns Newcastle: Dan Burn’s desperate cameo exposes Newcastle’s £179m problemWilson loaded all his chips on Jaissle, speaking glowingly in September about their initial meetings. They believe he is an elite coach in waiting and for the sporting director this has to work. But there needs to be some robust conversations this week because sooner or later something has to give.
If he wants his team to have more control the criminally under-utilised Sean Steur will surely start at Fulham but the system needs to be tweaked too. Daniel Farke did it last year and turned his Leeds career around. Jaissle needs to follow suit and make Newcastle resemble a Premier League team again.
He said he would “analyse everything” when I asked if he would now tweak things and sacrifice bits of his “vertical football” style. If he is to escape this bout of Tyneside turbulence, he has no other choice.
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