Eddie Howe watched on as Newcastle United picked up a point at Nottingham Forest.
Not a game that flowed, nor one of the highest quality.
Though Newcastle United with easily more moments of quality and clear chances than the hosts, when they did occasionally pop up.
An excellent move saw fellow subs combine, Jacob Ramsey with a perfect through ball and Harvey Barnes the similar level finish.
Elliot Anderson scored a quality equaliser in the 88th minute but reality was that United didn’t win this game because of the chances they didn’t take, far more than the one conceded.
Eddie Howe speaking about the game to Sky Sports: “It’s a decent performance but when you group everything that’s happened to us this season, it’s another game that we feel we should’ve won and we haven’t. Already we’re starting to digest why we didn’t, lessons to learn, things to improve. We dominated for large periods and should’ve scored more than one and then paid the price at the end.”
William Osula failed with a one on one in the first half when Nick Woltemade produced his one moment of real quality in the match to set him up.
However, as Eddie Howe says, it was the second half when Newcastle created plenty of chances to win it, especially once Ramsey and Barnes replaced Woltemade and Murphy.
Eddie Howe going on to say: “The team improved as the game went on. First half was a bit of a non-event and we changed things around at half time, moved some things around and were much better in the second half. The two subs made a big impact that was good to see – but then we just have to defend better. Of course, we had chances to get a second goal and we should have done and then we just didn’t defend the goal well enough at all.”
Two matches remain, game numbers 57 and 58 for United.
West Ham at home and then Fulham away.
Eddie Howe stating: “If we are able to win our last two games then we’d look at it positively but we have to leave with a better feeling than we have today. Ultimately the late goal changes the perception of ourselves and we put so much effort in, the lads are really trying, but we are just not putting it together for the whole game.”
Nottingham Forest 1 Newcastle United 1 – Sunday 10 May 2026 2pm
Match Stats
Goals:
Newcastle United:
Barnes 74
Forest:
Anderson 88
Possession was Newcastle 54% Forest 46%
Total shots were Newcastle 16 Forest 17
Shots on target were Newcastle 6 Forest 6
Corners were Newcastle 1 Forest 2
Touches in the opposition box Newcastle 28 Forest 23
Newcastle team v Forest:
Pope, Thiaw, Botman, Burn, Hall, Bruno (Trippier 95), Tonali, Joelinton, Jacob Murphy (Barnes 61), Woltemade (Ramsey 61), Osula (Wissa 71)
Unused subs:
Ramsdale, Gordon, Elanga, Willock, Alex Murphy