Eleven and hell – the cost of Newcastle’s dropped points

It appeared as though history was about to repeat itself.

Spurs have suffered a number of agonizing defeats at St James’ Park in recent years, and Anthony Gordon’s late goal put Newcastle United back in front.

After their side took a 2-1 lead in the Premier League on Tuesday, Newcastle supporters chanted, “It’s happening again.” “Tottenham Hotspur – it’s happening again”!

After Spurs’ kick in the 95th minute, there would be a completely different sense of deja vu inside the stadium at full-time.

Newcastle delivered a stoppage-time sucker punch to a member of the established order at home, just like they did with Liverpool in August and Arsenal in September.

No other Premier League team has lost more points this season than Eddie Howe’s team, which is 11 points worse than that one.

Although football is never so simple, Newcastle would be much more than 13th place in the table if they had been able to cross the line after leading against Spurs, let alone against Brentford, West Ham, and Arsenal.

Amazingly, Newcastle would have won those four games had they watched them, but they are currently 11 points adrift of leaders Arsenal, who they gave up three points to.

Howe remarked, “It’s a really strange one.” Like our away form, these things occasionally occur in cycles and are quite predictable. Another one, this.

Yet, at least on its own soil, Newcastle appeared to have resolved those issues.

Howe’s side won six straight home games in all competitions after somehow falling to Arsenal in September despite holding on in the 83rd minute.

So it’s no wonder Dan Burn, defender for the Spurs, stated in his programme notes before the game, “I always fancy our chances.”

Especially in opposition to a flimsy Spurs side that had only won one of their previous seven games.

Newcastle’s winning run at home was ended as a result of their 4-1 win over Everton on Saturday, their first away league victory since April, while they found a cure for travel sickness with a 4-1 victory over Everton.

The captain of Newcastle opened the scoring before Romero’s diving header from the spot in the 86th minute restored the hosts’ lead at 1-1 following substitutes Bruno Guimaraes and Anthony Gordon’s crucial contributions.

However, Newcastle encouraged Spurs to believe a late equaliser was possible after nine minutes of stoppage time were added on rather than watching the game out and keeping hold of the ball.

After three difficult games, Frank said, “I really liked the character and the mentality in the team.”

Newcastle will regret the manner of that second-half equalizer at Tottenham, though.

In the final moments of the game, the hosts kindly gave their visitors a second shot on target while Spurs had not exactly peppered the Newcastle goal.

The ball snuck up invitingly inside the area as Aaron Ramsdale, who is replacing injured goalkeeper Nick Pope, elected to punch substitute Mathys Tel’s corner.

What transpired next appeared to be taking a slow-motion turn.

Romero, who had earlier issued a warning in front of goal, was given the opportunity to line up his overhead kick without an attacking Newcastle player.

The ball scurried past a crowd of black and white shirts and crept past Ramsdale, who was slow to react, but there was still a chance to get it out.

St. James was astonished.

Rio Ngumoha scored for Liverpool in the 100th minute in August, and Gabriel, the player, scored in the 96th minute to seal the win.

You can look back and find the error or a team member not performing their duties, Howe said. We have a responsibility to help the team improve in those circumstances, and we will do that.

“But occasionally it turns psychological, occasionally it turns into a fear of admitting, and you do admit.” Although there is a lot going into it, we must find ways to improve ourselves when we are in front, and we must always attack, which I encourage us to do.