{"id":4764,"date":"2023-11-08T09:48:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2023-11-08T09:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:48:54","slug":"eddie-howe-hangs-lewis-hall-out-to-dry-in-damaging-champions-league-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/11\/08\/eddie-howe-hangs-lewis-hall-out-to-dry-in-damaging-champions-league-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Howe hangs Lewis Hall out to Dry in damaging Champions League Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teenager made a crucial mistake in the build-up to Dortmund&#8217;s first goal, with the 2-0 loss leaving the Magpies facing group-stage elimination<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle are staring down the barrel of an early Champions League exit after a dismal 2-0 defeat to Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday. Eddie Howe&#8217;s side have picked up just four points from their opening four matches, and having lost home and away to Dortmund, they now have a mountain to climb if they are to reach the knockout stages.<\/p>\n<p>Niclas Fullkrug scored the first goal of the game, finishing tidily after a cut-back from Marcel Sabitzer, with Lewis Hall completely bypassed in the build-up. Joelinton could have brought Newcastle level after the Magpies&#8217; bold opening to the second half, but he somehow managed to miss a header from five yards out.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle were made to pay for the missed chance, as Dortmund added a second on 78 minutes when Julian Brandt sprinted away on the counter and finished brilliantly into the bottom corner. Hall&#8217;s nightmare, and Joelinton&#8217;s miss, leave the Magpies in very real danger of dropping into the Europa League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teenager made a crucial mistake in the build-up to Dortmund&#8217;s first goal, with the 2-0 loss leaving the Magpies facing group-stage elimination Newcastle are staring down the barrel of an early Champions League exit after a dismal 2-0 defeat to Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday. Eddie Howe&#8217;s side have picked up just four points from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":4770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[294],"class_list":["post-4764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-champions-league"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions\/4777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}