Jaissle laments errors after Newcastle’s 3-1 cup loss to Everton as Grealish is dropped
Newcastle United lost 3-1 to Everton in their tie in the competition sponsored by a low-calorie, fruit-flavoured energy drink brand from Thailand last night, and head coach Matthias Jaissle described the performance as ‘‘shocking’’ and ‘‘frustrating’’. Everton omitted Jack Grealish for a breach of club discipline; manager David Moyes declined to give details before the game.
The fixture carried a quarter-final place against Fleetwood and followed a season that the article describes as ‘‘mixed’’. Newcastle’s previous success in the same competition the season before last ended a long trophy drought, a moment that remains vivid for travelling supporters, and CEO David Hopkinson had introduced Jaissle as ‘‘a rock star’’. Expectations among fans for another deep run were raised ahead of the match against Everton.
Asked about avoidable errors after the defeat, Jaissle responded, ‘‘Well what do you think?’’ He added: ‘‘And this is what is shocking and is frustrating as well and therefore I probably need to scream more. But that’s part of the game, you need to avoid these mistakes, be more mature, more clinical in these situations.’’ Jaissle and his squad will meet Everton again on Monday night, a chance the coach called the first opportunity to address the result.
Everton dropped Grealish after he reportedly missed training without explanation on Monday; one paper said his no-show left Moyes ‘‘incandescent’’ with rage. ‘‘You probably know I am not going to give any details [about what happened],’’ whispered Moyes before the game. ‘‘It is a club decision and I support it. It is something I don’t want to speak about too much.’’
The piece notes that assorted pundits have linked Everton’s disciplinary action against Grealish with the player’s fabled fondness for a night out on the tiles. ‘‘Whatever the reason behind his ill discipline, it is fair to say the 31-year-old is in danger of leaving a once great future far behind him and has clearly let his team down,’’ the article states. After the win, Moyes said: ‘‘The one thing about Everton is that they have got real good values.’’
‘‘It had been like one year and a couple of months and I still can’t walk on the stairs like a normal guy. I have to play football, so in my head I’m not going to give up, but I have to think that if this doesn’t work out, what do I do? I went to a physio in Sweden. He was able to change my nervous system and then it felt different. When I did the exercises, I said, ‘I don’t have pain, like this hurt yesterday. Why is this not hurting today?’ Then I did the next exercise and said, ‘this is not hurting,’ and I went into the room to my wife. And I told her, ‘it’s over, we’re going to do this’. From the minute I went into the room, it was better. There was still pain but it was different. Now I had control of my leg and then that is when the grind started that summer. I started to play football and it got better every day. I was limping and everything, but it was different now. I got much stronger in a short time and I went from ‘this guy will not play football any more’ to playing really good football in just a couple of weeks’ — Dejan Kulusevski on how he was able to return to playing with Tottenham after a 17-month injury layoff.
Newcastle and Everton meet again on Monday night; Everton also have a quarter-final against Fleetwood in the competition.