Dominic Scurr reflects on Eddie Howe's Newcastle United pre match press conference ahead of Brentford on Saturday.
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00:00 Back here at the Newcastle training ground where Eddie Howe has just done his pre-match
00:04 press conference ahead of Saturday evening's game against Brentford at St James' Park.
00:09 After the international break it's a big game as they all are but a bit of pressure because
00:15 Newcastle have obviously lost the last three Premier League games, have never lost four
00:19 in a row under Eddie Howe in the Premier League. So Brentford, tricky opponents, Eddie Howe
00:24 addressed that of course and the big takeaways from the press conference were on the injury
00:29 front to be honest. Sandro Tannoli picked up a thigh injury while away with Italy, Eddie
00:35 Howe said he's been for a scan, it's not thought to be serious but could be a doubt for the
00:40 weekend or is a doubt for the weekend, could miss the game. Sean Longstaff is ready to
00:45 come back into the side if needed. Elsewhere in the squad on the injury front Sven Bortmann
00:50 is trained and possibly, he said fingers crossed, Eddie Howe will be involved tomorrow, same
00:57 goes for Elliot Anderson as well. So positive in regards to Anderson and Bortmann on the
01:06 whole, hopefully they'll be involved, not so much on Tannoli but we'll see whether a
01:13 late call is made on him or whether he's available for AC Milan, his former club in the Champions
01:18 League on Tuesday night. Eddie Howe was asked a few times about AC Milan but wouldn't entertain
01:23 it, he said it's not even in the back of his mind, his own pure focus is on Brentford this
01:30 weekend and it's a big game back at St James' Park. We'll have all the updates heading into
01:36 the game, all the updates from Eddie Howe's press conference as well, all the updates
01:42 afterwards over on the Shields Gazette website so check that out and we'll see you all there
01:48 tomorrow evening.