Thanks to the intuition of Eddie Howe the blue is playing his best football since he arrived in England and the Magpies are flying, with 5 consecutive successes
A month ago Newcastle had a problem in midfield. Three enormously talented players like Sandro Tonali, captain Bruno Guimarães and Joelinton, but when they played together they didn’t work and didn’t make the team work. Then, before facing Liverpool at the beginning of December, Eddie Howe had an intuition: move Tonali to the centre, in front of the defence, and Guimarães to the centre-right, freer to lend a hand in attack. It worked so well that Tonali is playing his best football since he arrived in England and Newcastle are flying, with 5 consecutive successes (conceding only in the last match, away to Tottenham) which have brought them back to the noble districts of the Premier and the idea that getting through the semi-final of the Carabao Cup (which went to the Emirates on Tuesday against Arsenal) is one of those possible missions that can change the future of a team that always dreams of permanently entering among the greats of the Premier. With that long-problematic midfield now looking like one of the best departments in the league, anything is possible.