Eddie Howe apologises to Newcastle United players, who become enraged in the absence of the television cameras.

Eddie Howe apologises to Newcastle United players, who become enraged in the absence of the television cameras.

Dan Burn and Fabian Schar’s exasperation was evident in their reactions to Daniel Munoz’s late, late equaliser, as they both punched the air in frustration.

Newcastle United may have returned home with a point, but the 1-1 stalemate against Crystal Palace felt like a loss. It concluded a week that was tumultuous.

Newcastle could have advanced to third place by securing victories over Crystal Palace and West Ham, which are still struggling. In contrast, the Magpies are currently in 10th place, having acquired only one point out of the six available.

Despite the fact that the table is currently extremely congested and the season is lengthy, this already appears to be a significant lost opportunity. Certainly, Newcastle will not find it any simpler to regain the momentum they had before the international break.

The first match of the week will be against Liverpool, the league leaders, on Wednesday night. Subsequently, Brentford, who possess the most impressive home record in the division, will be visited.

Is this the week in which Newcastle reignites their campaign? Newcastle’s recent performance in front of goal has been concerning, with only two attempts on target in their respective matches against Crystal Palace and West Ham.

Newcastle was unable to test Eagles custodian Dean Henderson on Saturday, and the visitors only managed 10 touches inside the opposition box at Selhurst Park.

Marc Guehi’s own goal in the second half gave the Eagles the lead. Newcastle generated an xG of only 0.02; this was sufficient to convey the situation.

To believe that only Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool scored more goals last year. Conversely, this season, only five of the top-tier teams have scored less. “In the final third, we are way off what we were last year,” according to Howe.

Nevertheless, Howe expressed his disappointment with his team’s inability to secure the victory after Munoz scored in the 93rd minute, despite having successfully broken the deadlock. Howe even felt the need to express his regret to the club’s “magnificent” travelling support.

However, Anthony Gordon believed that this was yet another example of Newcastle “becoming the nearly men a bit too much” after they failed to capitalise on “two massive opportunities” against Crystal Palace and West Ham.

“It’s not good enough because if we want to climb the table, we have to dominate and see games out the way the top teams do,” according to him. In reality, the situation could have been significantly more dire.

The fact that Crystal Palace was ‘disappointed’ not to win the game was quite telling, and Eagles manager Oliver Glanser was hardly speaking out of turn when he said his side would have ‘deserved’ all three points.

Newcastle, after all, is only the eighth team in history to avoid defeat in a Premier League encounter in which they attempted one shot or fewer. A superb long pass from Guehi found Sarr inside the box with just over an hour remaining on the clock.

Pope made a significant save to prevent the Senegal star from scoring. Munoz’s eyes glowed as the ball descended to him. However, Burn managed to create an obstruction that prevented the full-back from equalising.

You contemplated whether it would be one of those days for Crystal Palace. Guehi scored on a header in the 70th minute, Pope saved Sarr’s attempt at the near post with a quarter of an hour remaining, and Jean-Philippe Mateta scored on a pirouette from six yards out in the final minutes.

Nevertheless, Crystal Palace achieved a point in stoppage time when Munoz headed in Guehi’s cross at the back post, causing Newcastle players to collapse to their knees and sending Glasner scurrying down the touchline.