Brian Brobbey of Sunderland celebrates scoring his team's second goal as Aaron Ramsdale and Dan Burn of Newcastle United react during the Premier League match between Newcastle United and Sunderland at St James' Park on March 22, 2026 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. (Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images)placeholder image
Brian Brobbey of Sunderland celebrates scoring his team's second goal as Aaron Ramsdale and Dan Burn of Newcastle United react during the Premier League match between Newcastle United and Sunderland at St James' Park on March 22, 2026 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. (Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images) | Getty Images
Alan Shearer has reacted to Newcastle United’s Tyne-Wear derby defeat to Sunderland at St James’ Park.
Alan Shearer did not hold back after Newcastle United’s 2-1 Tyne-Wear derby defeat to Sunderland.
Anthony Gordon gave the Magpies the lead 10 minutes but second-half goals from Chemsdine Talbi and Brian Brobbey won it for the visitors in the second-half.
Brobbey’s winner came in the 90th minute as the Black Cats completed the double over Newcastle on their return to the Premier League after eight years outside of it.
Eddie Howe reflects on Newcastle United’s 2-1 defeat to Sunderland
Reflecting on the defeat, Eddie Howe said: “Yeah, very, very painful. Most of all, painful for our supporters. And they're the ones I think about now. I've got very little to sort of use as an excuse, and I don't want to go down that road. Never have. I never believed in that method.
“Once you haven't performed, and you know the size of the game, and you don't deliver, you expect to be criticised, and you understand why.
“I understand the reaction at the end of the game. We haven't done our jobs well enough today, and we're desperately disappointed in ourselves. And yeah, I think we have to absorb it. And all we can do, the only thing we can do, is try and come back stronger from it.
“I think whenever you concede goals, it's unacceptable. From my side, no-one means to make a mistake, no-one means to miss a tackle, no-one means to not defend well in that moment.
“he lads know the size of the game, they know what's at stake, so they're trying their best. I can assure everybody of that, but we haven't got certain things right in those goals. I think there were two really poor goals to concede, both in the last actions and the bits before.
“And that's not been a one-off for us. We've defended poorly for that period of time, certainly since the turn of the year, and we're well aware of that.
“So, yeah, all we can do, as I said earlier, is return for the first time to the training pitch to try and rectify some of the errors.”
Alan Shearer reacts to Newcastle United’s 2-1 defeat to Sunderland
At full-time, Shearer could not hide his frustration as he took to social media to slam the Magpies’ second-half display. Talbi equalised near the hour-mark before Brobbey netted before seven minutes of stoppage time went up.
Shearer wrote: “A pathetic, weak, lazy, limp second half from Newcastle again #NEWSUN.”
The Magpies have now dropped 22 points from winning positions, leaving their 12th in the Premier League with seven matches left to play.
“That's an incredible amount of points,” said Howe. “There's huge regret from us on that. Certainly, from my side, there's no part of me that ever wants to take the lead and then to sit on a lead. The opposite. We want to go for more goals. That's always been in our psychology as coaching, to continue to attack and continue to be front foot.
“But we haven't been able to maintain that for whatever reason. We've become very passive and quite reactive, and we were again today, and it's a huge disappointment. We've got quite a few to go through. We'll go through as many as we can.”
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