Eddie Howe ‘hugely frustrated’ as Newcastle denied win by controversial penalty

Eddie Howe was left fuming after Paris St Germain denied Newcastle a priceless Champions League victory with a controversial stoppage-time penalty. The Magpies have been heading for a well-known 1-0 win on the Parc des Princes till Polish referee Szymon Marciniak awarded a spot-kick towards Tino Livramento after a VAR evaluation, permitting Kylian Mbappe to degree within the eighth and last minute of added time. Howe, who mentioned in a tv interview that the official had been positioned beneath “extreme” strain by the PSG gamers, labelled a call which value his facet two treasured factors “poor” in his post-match press convention.

Asked if he felt a way of injustice, the Newcastle boss mentioned: “Yes, I do. It wasn’t the right decision in my opinion. “There are so many things to take into account at that moment, the speed first.

It was a ricochet that when it is slowed down, looks completely different to the live event. “The ball hits his chest first, comes up and hits his hand. But his hand is not in an unnatural position, they [his hands] are down by his side, but he is in a running motion.

“I feel it is a poor decision and it’s hugely frustrating for us as you know how little time there is left in the game. There is nothing we can do about it now. ” The pivotal second arrived within the fifth minute of stoppage time when Ousmane Dembele tried to ship the ball throughout the Newcastle penalty space and noticed it hit Livramento’s facet and rear up on to the underside of his arm.

Mr Marciniak, who had earlier seen selections to not award spot-kicks for an Anthony Gordon problem on Achraf Hakimi and a shout for handball towards teenager midfielder Lewis Miley upheld, was suggested to evaluation the incident and this time determined to award the penalty. The Magpies, who had taken a Twenty fourth-minute lead via Alexander Isak, defended it for grim life till the last-gasp controversy, though they wanted Pope to be at his good greatest on a number of events. They now have to beat AC Milan at house on December 13 and hope PSG don’t win away to Borussia Dortmund to progress.

Asked if that was one thing to cling on to, Howe, who celebrates his forty sixth birthday on Wednesday, mentioned: “Yes, I think that’s absolutely right. In the next couple of days, that will become more relevant in our thoughts, I think. “When the draw came out, it was the ‘group of death’ and I don’t think many people gave us a chance of qualifying from it and sitting here now, I’m a little bit frustrated that it’s not in our hands because when I look back at the two Dortmund games, I felt we could have done better in those matches.

“I don’t think it’s the time for that, I think it’s probably a time to be positive and to say that if we can beat Milan, then good things can happen from it. ” For PSG boss Luis Enrique, there was a combination of reduction and frustration on an evening when his facet created a number of probabilities however have been unable to take any of them till Mbappe’s late intervention. Enrique mentioned: “Without a doubt, we played a very great game.

We deserved to win. We played better than Newcastle. The result does not reflect what happened on the pitch.

“It’s not basketball. We are one of the teams in Europe that scores the most. Sometimes the ball doesn’t want to go in.

“Sometimes the game looked like table tennis. I couldn’t believe we couldn’t score, but we carried on despite the frustration. ” On at the present time in 2015: Great Britain finish lengthy anticipate Davis Cup win.