Howe: Newcastle looking for enhancements regardless of 5 straight wins

Newcastle boss Eddie Howe claims his facet can proceed to get higher regardless of a run of 5 consecutive wins.

That run has despatched them as much as fifth within the Premier League and into the EFL Cup semi-finals.

Howe’s staff have overwhelmed Leicester Metropolis, Brentford, Ipswich City, Aston Villa and Manchester United on that run, scoring 16 targets and conceding only one.

A visit to Tottenham on Saturday is subsequent, and the Magpies’ supervisor is obvious that his staff should not but at full tilt.

He stated: “There’s at all times room to enhance, I do genuinely consider that. There’s extra to return.

“We’re taking part in so much higher, the cohesion within the staff has been actually sturdy. Gamers are taking part in with confidence and freedom and expressing themselves in an effective way.

“However because the challenges go up, we might want to ship extra. These subsequent video games now we have arising will problem us extra and we’re going to have to reply in a optimistic method.”

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Newcastle have come up in opposition to Tottenham 59 occasions within the Premier League period and by no means drawn 0-0, essentially the most performed fixture within the competitors’s historical past to at all times function a objective.

And having achieved a Premier League double over Spurs in simply one of many 12 campaigns between 2008-09 and 2021-22, Howe’s facet might now achieve this in two of the final three.

There will probably be much more incentive for the likes of Tino Livramento, Lewis Corridor and Anthony Gordon to carry out, with England head coach Thomas Tuchel set to make this the primary recreation he attends since formally beginning the function on January 1.

Howe stated: “I’m positive the gamers will concentrate on that however for me it’s irrelevant.

“It’s us in opposition to Tottenham and we’ve received to verify we flip up in the identical place that we have been in opposition to Manchester United, on the entrance foot and try to ship a superb efficiency.”

There’s extra excellent news on the damage entrance for Newcastle, too, with defender Sven Botman having recovered from an ACL damage and obtainable to play for the primary time since March 2024.

Howe stated: “He’s labored extremely onerous to get himself in a superb situation. He’s had three video games and a number of inside coaching as effectively. He’s definitely in and round my ideas.

“I’ll should decide on who I feel most closely fits that place.

“We’ve taken longer than possibly we usually would have completed. He needed to strive and ensure he has the very best probability of staying match when he comes again, hitting the bottom operating, which is totally very important.”