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Eddie Howe watched on as his Newcastle United team lost 3-1 to West Ham United.

The scoreline was a shock.

However, the way that Newcastle played was even more shocking.

Eddie Howe sounds as bewildered as the rest of us.

The Newcastle United Head Coach declaring his team were ‘unrecognisable’…

Eddie Howe gives his reaction after West Ham 3 Newcastle 1:

“The dynamism wasn’t there today.

“The physicality, the energy, missing from our performance.

“Hugely frustrating for us.

“A poor performance.

“We weren’t ourselves today.

“The numbers aren’t good in terms of our away form recently.

“We haven’t replicated our home form away but I think some of the performances have been good.

“But that is the worse we have played during that run of games, where we haven’t won.

“It didn’t look like a Newcastle United team that we’ve seen in recent seasons.

“I think the body language, the collective spirit on the pitch, loads of little things that contribute to our performance, weren’t there.

“The longer that first half went on, the more frustrated I was with our performance.

“We were unrecognisable in certain aspects of our...