Newcastle’s controversial post-season tour of Australia led to an embarrassing defeat on Friday as they have been thrashed 8-0 by the A-League All Stars in Melbourne.
The Australian crew’s victory was their first towards European opposition with the likes of Manchester United, Juventus and Barcelona beating earlier iterations of the All Stars squad.
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Supervisor Eddie Howe had named an inexperienced aspect for the match after lots of Newcastle’s first-team gamers had flown residence following their penalty shootout victory over Tottenham on Wednesday.
Lewis Corridor, Elliot Anderson and Kieran Trippier have been the one senior gamers amongst Howe’s squad, though they have been all unused substitutes.
“It was all the time going to be tough,” Howe informed a information convention after the match. “I feel it was actually good for the younger lads to undergo that at present. You see the distinction between the expertise of the All Stars — I assumed they performed very effectively — and the inexperience of a few of our gamers.
“In all probability the most important distinction was bodily, within the final a part of the sport the place they may convey substitutes on, they appear good, they usually look stronger for it. And we tailed off fairly badly. So I feel there’s quite a lot of particular person development there from that sport at present.
“It was all the time going to be a take a look at. I could not take any dangers with any senior participant at present. I feel that might have been silly of me. It might have jeopardised their futures going into subsequent season.
“So at present was about given a possibility to the youthful gamers and to see who out of that group subsequent yr might play an element in our first crew.
“It is tough to in all probability absolutely analyse each single participant, as a result of collectively, we weren’t sturdy sufficient. However I am certain a few of the gamers will look again at that day and suppose which may be a turning level the place they realise they have much more to do to get nearer to the primary crew.”
Their two-match postseason tour on the opposite aspect of the world has been criticised by local weather change marketing campaign teams, with Trippier beforehand saying that he felt the matches have been “not excellent.”
Data from ESPN’s Joey Lynch contributed to this report