Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manager of Leicester City, and Eddie Howe, Manager of Newcastle United, are seen talking prior to the Premier League match between Newcastle United FC and Leicester City FC. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manager of Leicester City, and Eddie Howe, Manager of Newcastle United, are seen talking prior to the Premier League match between Newcastle United FC and Leicester City FC. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manager of Leicester City, and Eddie Howe, Manager of Newcastle United, are seen talking prior to the Premier League match between Newcastle United FC and Leicester City FC. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images) | Getty Images
Eddie Howe revealed his delight after Newcastle United returned to winnings with a 4-0 win against Leicester City at St James’ Park.
The Magpies responded emphatically to last weekend’s disappointing 4-2 defeat at Brentford via a Jacob Murphy brace and goals from Bruno Guimaraes and Alexander Isak.
Murphy opened the scoring in the 30th minute when he finished off a clever corner routine involving Lewis Hall, Sandro Tonali and Anthony Gordon.
Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manager of Leicester City, and Eddie Howe, Manager of Newcastle United, are seen talking prior to the Premier League match between Newcastle United FC and Leicester City FC. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manager of Leicester City, and Eddie Howe, Manager of Newcastle United, are seen talking prior to the Premier League match between Newcastle United FC and Leicester City FC. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manager of Leicester City, and Eddie Howe, Manager of Newcastle United, are seen talking prior to the Premier League match between Newcastle United FC and Leicester City FC. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images) | Getty Images
Guimaraes made it 2-0 moments after half-time when Hall directed Gordon’s free-kick across goal, leaving the Brazilian unmarked at the back post. Hall didn’t take long to register another assist as his deflected cross reached Isak.
Isak then turned provider with his silky footwork setting up Murphy, who fired past Danny Ward in the Leicester City goal.
Providing his verdict on X, club legend Alan Shearer wrote: “That’s better. Dominated the whole game.” And Howe seemingly agreed.
Reflecting on the victory, Howe said: “It’s a big win for a lot of reasons but this week with two home games and the importance of both games, we needed to start well and this gives us a massive lift.
“It was important we responded to the Brentford performance in the right way and I thought we did, right from the start of the game I thought we looked engaged and mentally switched on to give a really athletic and technical performance.
“We had a bit of everything today, good attacking and defending and there were a lot of positive responses to the disappointment of last week.
“The result was the most important thing and of course how you get the result is hugely important especially off the back of the recent weeks that we’ve had so to create a lot of chances, to score four goals and keep a clean sheet are all huge things for us.
“It’s been a really good day but we have to make sure we wake up tomorrow and we are absolutely focused on our next game to deliver the same product.”
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