Eddie Howe Brentford press conference – The key messages ahead of Wednesday night | OneFootball

The Eddie Howe Chelsea Press Conference has taken place.

The Newcastle United Head Coach speaking to the media ahead of Wednesday’s game.

United facing Brentford at 7.45pm tomorrow night at St James’ Park.

Having won silverware at Wembley, Newcastle United would move back into the top five and a Champions League qualifying place on Wednesday with a victory against Brentford.

Eddie Howe Brentford press conference – 1 April 2025:

Eddie Howe on the remainder of the season:

“It has been a case of resetting and looking at our goals again in a different way.

“We need to put what happened against Liverpool to the back of our minds and now really focus on the final ten games.

“Ten great opportunities to grab and try to turn our Premier League season into a memorable one as well as the cup final.

“Hopefully the lads are boosted and have renewed confidence.”

Eddie Howe on Anthony Gordon:

“He has some nasty bruising around his thigh but he’s up and running and feeling quite good.

“He’s not trained with the group yet so we anticipate he’ll do that within the next few days.”

Eddie Howe on Sven Botman:

“Sven’s not too bad.

“He’s had a very minor operation just to clean out some floating bone that was in his knee and was causing him a problem.

“The initial diagnosis was between six and eight weeks but I think he’s already got through a few of those.

“Fingers crossed we’ll see him in May.”

Eddie Howe on building on Carabao Cup success:

“The pain of losing the final [in 2023], although it was a big disappointment, it fired us in the Premier League, so we used that pain.

How we’re going to respond to success is a different feeling but we need the outcome to be similar.

“It needs to fuel us, it needs to help us not hinder us.

For those things to happen there’s going to have to be a good reaction from the team so that’s our big test.”

Eddie Howe on Saturday’s Carabao Cup celebrations:

“It was an amazing day.

“I have such vivid memories of it.

“A massive thank you to everyone that turned up. It was cold, so for the supporters to wait like they did in those conditions was an incredible effort, so a big thank you.”

Eddie Howe on seeing his flag on Saturday:

“It was totally unexpected.

“I didn’t know it was there and didn’t know it was coming.

“You’re in a little bit of shock in that moment because it’s never about one individual, it’s never about me, it’s always about the team, but there was a lot of thanks from me to the people that thought of that.