Alan Shearer launches Newcastle rant in furious reaction to Fulham defeat

Alan Shearer - an iconic fig astatine St James' Park - was acold from pleased aft the effect and said Newcastle were deserving losers, praising Fulham and tearing into the Magpies

Newcastle fable Alan Shearer didn't clasp backmost aft the club's disappointing 3-1 nonaccomplishment to Fulham connected Saturday, insisting the Magpies "got what they deserved".

Eddie Howe's broadside looked disconnected the gait astatine Craven Cottage, going 2-0 down successful the archetypal 22 minutes acknowledgment to goals from Raul Jimenez and Emile Smith Rowe, earlier Harvey Barnes pulled 1 backmost conscionable aft the interval.

But Newcastle could not animate themselves to a comeback arsenic Marco Silva's men netted a 3rd successful stoppage clip done Reiss Nelson to reconstruct their two-goal cushion and corroborate a thumping win.

Fulham's triumph was adjacent much awesome fixed that Newcastle had antecedently won 3 of their archetypal 4 games of the play - drafting the different - though they were beaten by the amended broadside successful westbound London.

Shearer - an iconic fig astatine St James' Park who played implicit 400 times for the nine - was acold from pleased aft the effect and said the squad were deserving losers, praising Fulham and tearing into the distant side.

"That was atrocious from Newcastle," the erstwhile striker wrote connected societal media. "Got what they deserved. Fulham overmuch much better."

The BBC pundit, who managed the nine during an ill-fated spell successful 2008 that saw the nine get relegated from the Premier League, often makes his feelings known astir the squad and won't clasp backmost astir them aft a mediocre performance.

Newcastle are inactive sitting comfy successful sixth spot with 10 points from 5 games, but manager Eddie Howe insists the squad person "work to do" if they are to conscionable their goals this season.

"That archetypal fractional was tough," helium said aft the game. "We responded truly good successful the 2nd fractional and chased the crippled efficaciously until the end. We request to bespeak connected that and analyse it properly.

When asked wherefore helium thought large sanction stars similar Bruno Guimaraes didn't deliver, helium added: "From my perspective, you analyse everyone reasonably and independently. There are nary large sanction stars wrong the group.

"Everyone is contributing the aforesaid effort. You request your players to play good to triumph games and intelligibly that wasn't the lawsuit contiguous particularly the archetypal half. We person enactment to do."

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