"I didn't like us" - Eddie Howe's candid assessment of Newcastle United loss to West Ham

Eddie Howe did not hold back after Newcastle United's 2-0 loss to West Ham and admits he "didn't like" the final half-hour.

The Newcastle boss also suggested that the players that entered the field for the second half, including Harvey Barnes and Sandro Tonali, have not done themselves many favours in terms of starting the next game. United went down to goals from Tomas Soucek and Aaron Wan-Bissaka and could not conjure a response despite bringing on more than £100million worth of subs.

Howe said: "Definitely, and that is unlike us because our substitutes usually make a positive impact on the group. That wasn't the case today.

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"I really didn't like us in the last half an hour. That leaves us with a negative feeling because the majority of the early exchanges and the first 60 minutes was very good. Of course, the players who enter the pitch to justify playing in the next game, we didn't do that well enough today."

Howe said he was satisfied with aspects of the first hour and reflected after the game: "I'm pretty pleased with the first 60 minutes albeit we're losing the game 2-0. We opened them up and had chances to score. Up to that point I was pretty pleased but the last 30 minutes I didn't enjoy. We tried a bit too hard to score. We'll rue that when we watch the game back.

"For both goals we know we made individual mistakes. It was disappointing from our perspective. Very uncharacteristic from us because we've defended well in recent weeks. At the end we had players out of position, so I didn't like the way we looked at the end. But up until that 60 minute mark I thought we were the dominant team.

An Alexander Isak goal that was chalked off for offside and a penalty call did not go Newcastle's way would add to Howe's woes.

On those incidents, he said: "For Callum's [non]-penalty I thought it was a tight call and I'd need to see it again. The offside goal looked tight, I thought it would be a longer review and hopefully drop in our favour."