Eddie Howe praised saviour Harvey Barnes after he got here off the bench to tug Newcastle from the jaws of defeat to a exceptional Premier League victory over West Ham.
The Magpies had been trailing 3-1 at St James’ Park when £38million summer time signing Barnes was launched as a 67th-minute alternative for injured substitute Miguel Almiron and 23 madcap minutes later, he scored the second of two objectives to safe a surprising 4-3 win.
Head coach Howe stated: “Harvey deserves that. The factor with Harvey is that he’s a goalscorer. He does rating objectives. You take a look at his statistics and his file, and it’s unimaginable actually for a large participant.
“You simply take a look at the quantity of objectives he acquired final season for Leicester. We felt, signing him, that he might get comparable numbers for us. He’s simply been struck by accidents, and he’s had a troublesome begin to his Newcastle profession.
“However the high quality is undoubtedly there and I believed the 2 finishes as we speak had been typical Harvey. It wasn’t straightforward to attain the primary one – though it was a one-on-one, he had a very small a part of the purpose to purpose at and took it brilliantly.
“Then the second, I hope it can reside on for a very long time as a result of at 3-3, the ball drops to him on his proper foot, however he nonetheless has a lot to do. It’s an excellent purpose.”
Alexander Isak had fired the Magpies right into a sixth-minute lead from the penalty spot, by Michail Antonio’s equaliser and a second from the spectacular Mohammed Kudus had the guests 2-1 forward on the break.
Jarrod Bowen’s strike three minutes after the restart appeared to have gained the sport, however Isak repeated the dose from the spot with 13 minutes remaining after substitute Kalvin Phillips had tripped Anthony Gordon – who was later despatched off for a second bookable offence – to arrange a chaotic end.
Barnes levelled with seven minutes remaining, however saved the perfect for final when he smashed an unstoppable Ninetieth-minute drive previous substitute keeper Lukasz Fabianski to finish the comeback.
Howe stated: “It was an excellent advert for the Premier League, I believe, a very good advert for the league by way of the drama, the adjustments within the sport and the flows in momentum.”
The one down facet for Howe was the addition of skipper Jamaal Lascelles, Tino Livramento and Almiron to to an already in depth harm record, whereas Gordon might be suspended for Tuesday’s conflict with former membership Everton.
He was at the least capable of replicate on a spirited fightback and he headed dwelling, in stark distinction to reverse quantity David Moyes, who had thrown England worldwide Phillips into the combo in an try to stem the circulate.
Moyes stated: “I believed an additional midfield participant would give us a bit extra management in the course of the pitch at the moment. However clearly it didn’t work.
“On the time, I felt that they had been barely the higher staff. We had been 2-1, we acquired 3-1 however from that time onwards, we would have liked to defend effectively and be stronger and be tougher to play towards.
“However hey, we scored three, they scored 4, we lose the sport. We did numerous good issues, definitely going ahead. Our attacking play as excellent.”
