Eddie Howe admits last season’s battles with Liverpool remain vivid memories
Newcastle head coach Eddie Howe (left) is still haunted by last season’s clashes with Liverpool counterpart Jurgen Klopp (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Eddie Howe will send his Newcastle side into battle with Liverpool still haunted by the memories of their encounters last season.
The Reds were the only club to complete a Premier League double over the Magpies, although they gained a measure of revenge when they went on to finish fourth – one place and four points better off than Jurgen Klopp’s men.
However, Howe admits it does not take much to stoke memories of the Fabio Carvalho winner in the eighth minute of stoppage time which handed Liverpool victory at Anfield last August, or the red card in a 2-0 defeat in the reverse fixture which cost goalkeeper Nick Pope his place in the Carabao Cup final.
Newcastle goalkeeper Nick Pope, right, leaves the pitch after being being shown a red card against Liverpool (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Howe said: “I move on quickly from the game in the sense that then you have to prepare the next one, but I think the emotion of the game and the feeling and the memories of the game, they stay with you for some time.
“The memories of last year’s games, they’re with me. I can visualise certain moments, but then you have to detach yourself from that and go, ‘right, how do we prepare this one?’, because whether it’s tactical or whatever the thing is that you think you can do better, it’s about then delivering that to the best of your ability.
“There’s a lot of defeats in my management career that are still there and they just need probably the emotions stoking and they’ll come back to the forefront of my brain.”
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