Newcastle star Joelinton. (Photo by Stu Foster/Getty Images)
Eddie Howe criticized Joelinton for being foolishly booked during Newcastle’s 4-0 win over Leicester City on Saturday.
Objectively speaking, the Brazilian performed well against the Foxes, completing 93% of his passes and creating two chances (including one golden one) while attempting three shots and scoring two Rescue.
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However, Joelinton was shown a yellow card in the 71st minute for a late challenge on James Justin.
along with magpie Joelinton, who was already 4-0 up, did not need to launch such a challenge, but it proved to be quite costly, and the 28-year-old will miss Newcastle’s away game against Ipswich Town next Saturday. .
Newcastle boss Howe would have been further confused and frustrated by his midfielder as he warned him against a yellow card minutes before Joelinton’s foolish challenge.
“It’s weird how things work. I’m talking to him next to him and he’s right in front of me and I say ‘Joey, don’t get booked’ and he’s like ‘don’t worry, I won’t’. Two minutes later he You just can’t make up for being booked,” Howe told reporters after the big win (via chronicle).
He added: “In a sense, sometimes these things happen. I’m disappointed to lose him because he’s a player we need every away game, but at least he can now be free and play a normal game ”
Joelinton misses one game, Nick Pope out for a month
Saturday’s victory ended Newcastle United’s four-match winless run and saw them climb to 11th in the table, just four points behind fifth-placed Manchester City and five points away from a Champions League spot.
But the Magpies face a challenging festive schedule, starting with a Carabao Cup clash with Brentford on Wednesday and also including games against the likes of Aston Villa, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.
While Joelinton is only suspended for one league game, Newcastle will have to make do without goalkeeper Nick Pope, who was replaced by Martin Dubravka through injury on Saturday.
“He met with the specialists and the feedback he got was that he would be out for about a month, which is bad timing for us and for Nick because there are a lot of games in these four weeks. We hope that after these four weeks, He’s able to come into the game in good shape,” Howe said of Pope.
“He picked it up playing a pass against Brentford. It looked like nothing really, a left-footed pass, but his knee wasn’t feeling particularly good afterwards, so that was the plan.”
