The confusing brilliance of Eddie Howe’s Newcastle 

It’s S. Longstaff not M. Longstaff, please in your heart find a way to forgive me.

He turned positional play upside down and still works like normal.. 😂😂. Eddy Howe is a genius. Truely

Most of the discussion around Newcastle this season has been regarding their defence record, set pieces etc. So I thought I’d give a different perspective on why they’re also a force going forward!

As a Newcastle fan I’ve seen a lot of attempts from RU-vidrs trying to interpret Howes play style in videos like this, but IMO you’ve portrayed it the best. The positive mentality Howe has gave us is incredibly appreciated by us fans, we haven’t seen this type of positivity in over 15 years. One of my fears however is the triangular passing we seem to execute on the wings, with the reverse balls etc, it seems a bit too predictable and when we play the stronger teams in the league they always seem to shut it down quite well. It’ll be interesting to see Howe combat this in the future. Great video anyways.

Great video mate, I'm a season ticket holder. The game against Brighton where we won 4-1 was such a battle of concepts, the Howe press designed to prevent playing it from the back vs De Zerbi's anti-press build up was one of the best games I've seen in a while from a tactical perspective.

If you’ve seen his coaching at Bournemouth (pre-season mic’d up) he’s always been preaching this dynamic, direct, interchange-style with all kinds of unpredictable overlaps/underlaps. Great to watch and very effective 👍

I enjoyed seeing this fresh take on Newcastle which focused on other parts of their game and not just their press.

Excellent analysis. I couldn't work out why they were so horrible to get a result against. Now I know.

Newcastle is playing dream Red Bull football right now, it is fun to watch them!

Excellent summary! It's got to be so difficult to analyse, become aware of, then present this material. Great job.

Subscribed a couple of days ago after your brilliant Fluminense video, and as a Newcastle fan this was a real treat! Very professional insight and analysis, this is a gem of a channel. Keep it up!

love your videos they make me understand football a lot easier and simpler

Howe's style makes me remember the Dinizismo, non-positional playstyle of previous video. Wingers with a lot of freedom to cross the pitch

Having watched every game last season, they are so fun to watch. Eddie is a genius.

Great video. This is why some new signings will struggle to adapt quickly unless they get a full pre-season. Anthony Gordon signed mid season and not only was his fitness nowhere near to the rest of the squad but he has to learn about Howe's system. Once he does, Gordon will become a star player for us

Great content, mate! Newcastle is truly a gem. And your channel is full of quality videos!

Brilliant analysis. Excellent insight for coaching. Thank you!

Great analysis! I will watch and observe this type of play

You have earned another sub. i could not help it you just drew me in. Your unbiased analysis is refreshing, you load it neither for or against the team you are presenting which in turn allows the unbiased viewer to see just what you are getting at and appreciate the analysis. Thank you, and keep it up. 👍👍👍

Brilliant analysis!!! Clear, consise, and east to understand!! Good work impressive 👌✌

Great analysis, loved it!, very knowledgable! HTL 🏴🏳

Good video. I continued watching even after the M Longstaff bloopers. Glad I did.

Great video, makes a lot of sense, you picked up on a lot of things I’ve not seen others mention and stuff I hadn’t noticed too.

top notch analysis man thank you!

Great coach, we're really chuffed with him. What he's done with this squad is immense.

Forest fan here, must say a fantastic breakdown and delivery dude, nearly as good as NU breakdown and delivery this season…..NU and Brighton were the most entertaining teams to watch this season, I know we have a really talented coach in Cooper too and with a more stable and consistent pre-season we will see more entertaining football next season.

Very well put together video 👍👍

i so much love this team they give me great joy

This is the best breakdown of NUFC’s tactics that i’ve seen. As a fan, thank you for the detail

Matty Longstaff playing number 8 all season with a cruciate injury. Better player than I thought

great analysis!

Excellent analysis, nice to hear someone give Newcastle the praise they deserve

Thanks for the fantastic content

Great video! Thanks for the nuanced perspective, i really learned a lot about this confounding team👍🏾 Subbed/bell ✅ 🔔

Great video (other than mistaking Sean for Matty). Really interesting analysis & insight... Appreciate the time & effort you've obviously put into this. 👍

They are amazing to watch. The video of the 23rd April 2023 6 -1 Spurs slaughter, will be shown at training grounds around the world for many years to come. Everything mentioned above is there to be seen at its absolute best. A twenty one minute masterclass of NUFC magic.

When you watch them you can see that as soon as they get their heads up on the ball they are looking to pass straight up the pitch as first option every time.

Excellent analysis!

I forget what match it was, but I distinctly remember seeing Dan Burn (LB) making multiple touches near the top right corner flag. The ball came back to his position and I think it was Murphy taking up his defensive duty.

Manager of the Season for most people, hands down.

This was a great video mate

would you please make a video explaining tactics of the recent brighton team?

Absolutely outstanding video

Really great to see my club Newcastle featured here. A testament to our amazing progress! HWTL!

Great video bro What's your next video plan btw?

Eddie Howe is an admirer of Nelson (and his Geordie second IC Collingwood) and stands by Nelson’s last signal before his death at Trafalgar - “Engage the Enemy More Closely.”

This channel is very good

Epic video mate

They play over 7.5 corners on average each game. Says a lot about how attacking minded they are.

I'm not a NUFC, but I really liked watching them this season

Also players for the team have commented on Howe's huge focus on "Intensity" as a concept, hence the directness and the winning the ball back so quickly.

Underrated channel

They remind me of Ajax under Ten Hag. Was very impressed with Newcastle this season. Great video, thanks!

He will become the greatest English manager of all time. Absolutely nailed on.

Great video. Many thanks for putting it together. Re M or S - no problem : I doubt anyone taking the time to watch this would have thought it was Matty !

Brighton and Newcastle were the teams I enjoyed the most watching this season. They're explosive, creative, a little chaotic, agile, elegant, fun. City is better, I guess, but I don't feel that connection with the team. They're more like a well oiled machine, which is great. They are a pleasure to watch as well.

Excellent. Subscribed.

Great video !!

Thank you for this - you’ve just explained£ why I’ve not seen a game this season where I’ve felt that we’ve run out of ideas in attack. (Unlike the previous 42 seasons when I’ve seen that constantly happen:)

It seems very exciting!

I see a little bit of legendary Norwegian coach Nils Arne Eggen (Rosenborg in the late 80s, throughout most of the 90s) in Howe. Eggen had "godfotteorien" (lit.: "the good foot theory"), where you emphasize and build upon the natural talent of a player rather than trying to make them fit your system and tactic, and that the whole (team) is way larger than the sum of its parts. The prime individual example in Newcastle is off course Joelinton, a player that was "forced" to mainly play as a striker throughout most of his carreer until Howe showed up, and Joelinton is now shining as a box-to-box midfielder. Eggen was also known for utilizing a very similar play style to today's Newcastle, and his Rosenborg side often took European giants by surprise, even making it past the Champion's League group stage twice with a (comparatively speaking) tiny club. Has Howe "secretly" been watching tons of Rosenborg matches from the 90s? Perhaps not, but the similarities are still there imho! 🤩

Really interesting and insightful as the many comments testify. There is another dimension to this which Eddie Howe and other leading modern coaches exemplify. They are not cynical and want to see the game played well not just effectively. They want football to represent the best in people not the worst.

fantastic Video

Dude Saint Maximin has got to be one of the most underrated and under talked about players in Europe

THe best football channel, im not biased

I'm utterly biased, but this is excellent analysis. I think Howe really showed how far he has progressed as a manager when changing things up when we hit that post World Cup slump.

Man, if they get Rice, they're gonna jump a gouple of levels by him alone. Two interchangeably offensive and defensive midfielders in the same team. That, a winger and a leftback the first team is set as almost title contenders.

Howe has done great, very impressive - but the real test stats next year. Its been a rare season where 3 of the established top 5 have been shit for large chunks of the season, and Newcastle have deservedly taken their spot (obviously Utd did well enough to not drop out). But with Poch coming into Chelsea and potentially getting them back on track, and Liverpool improving somewhat towards the end of the season and seemingly targeting every midfielder in the world it will be interesting to see how Newcastle cope with extra pressure domestically and with CL football to juggle. I think they'll remain in the battle for CL spots and that Howe is more than capable of moving them on another step or two, but its different levels needed next year. They need a big transfer window and strong start to the season. Not a Newcastle fan, but after the dark years of your previous owner you guys deserve this upturn.

great video. only issue is using the fulham game to show them creating space when fulham have one less player

Too video and nice to see when someone with balance analyses our play they don’t talk about time wasting😂

Which software platform do you use for game analysis 😊

great video i'd love to see a vid about cuz imo their build is unmatched by any team in europe

This is the reason he should have been manager of the year.

i agree defensively it worked wonders, but we passed up on a lot of goals from too many touches on the wings and no one really in the box for crosses... still a lot of work IMO...

Newcastle's biggest strengths are the pressing, extremely flexible positioning of players and slick passing.

Good video but I disagree with Pope being poor with his feet, as a season ticket holder at NUFC I actually think he is average/ok on the deck. The reason why we don’t play short from Pope is because we have a massive advantage aerially and in duels for second balls. Joelinton, Willock, Longstaff, Wilson and Isak mean that we usually try to bypass another teams press by going long on purpose. Knowing we will win the ball most of the time. It does tie in with your ‘directness’ view as well! Good video though just thought i would share my take!

Howe-ever ...see what you did mate..love your videos

Eddie Howe gives the players freedom that is something more coaches should do

Hey Purist, how do you watch old matches? Is it through a website or software?

If they hadn't drawn so many games they would have been pushing for a top 2 place last season. Finding a way to turn more of those draws into wins is the key to them making progress this season.

0.31 is Sean longstaff mate

its almost like a blend between the ideas of positional play and that of flumense-esque relationship football, what I think is impressive is howe(pun intended) he's doing it in the prem

I am excited to see how he will perform in Europe with better players. I see why Arsenal wanted him years ago

Great analysis . . . . Eddie Howe should have won manager of the season, as Newcastle were easily the most improved team.

I really like the runs they make. It almost looks like they're trying to take the ball off their teammates until the go flying past them into space.

Can you make a video on why Xavi wants players like Gundogan, Foyth and Zubimendi? A tactical preview of what we might see next season

Given how energetic we have been all season, we may have to change a bit since we'll be involved in Europe and it wouldn't be possible to cope with that with the same style of play, players will be too much exhausted and it may effect our league results

Order in Defense Chaos in Attack

the forwards movements reminded me of your fluminense video. Its like he's the direct-english-style Fernando Diniz

Howe tactic is incredibly fluid. I have no idea why it works and even if the same style can be implemented in a different team to be honest. You really need players that knows how to play in multiple position and style to pull this off. It’s like someone is allow to just do what they want and the rest of the team will cover for him.

you should make a video of brighton

1:05 he was doing some goat stuff there, he was very close to. Let's keep Almiron in mind

Howe will do great things in the future

Intensity our identity

Anyone saw Burn occasionally overlapping on the RIGHT wing? Running forward like he was Roberto Carlos switching sides... 🥰

I think it's only natural that when we sign more individually brilliant players that control will come back into things. Defence wins trophies at the end of the day, and when we have players in all positions capable of winning games on their own, we won't need to play this high risk brand of football as we can just dictate the game, and have the top tier players pick teams off eventually.

excellent season for Newcastle, do the champions league proud and win it, good luck from a Chelsea fan

Make a video on Lens next. I feel like their season is out of nowhere

What type of player do you think will improve Newcastle next season? Personally, I think Tierney will make a massive difference down the left. A dynamic, defensive midfield will solidify the centre and free up guimaraes.

Sounds like Tonali will fit right in :)