Newcastle bruise Bournemouth's survival hopes with 4-1 away win

01-Jul-2020 19:58:00 | The Guardian

By the end, it was bordering on cruel. This was a futile Bournemouth performance, one that screamed relegation and they have now lost 16 of their past 21 games. Allan Saint-Maximin was influential as goals by Dwight Gayle, Sean Longstaff, Miguel Almirón and Valentino Lazaro chalked up Newcastle’s biggest win of the season. Victory should have been more emphatic, too, with Isaac Hayden missing a sitter after Lazaro smacked the crossbar.

Eddie Howe, hands on hips, stood forlorn on the touchline as his team, battered and bruised by a hungry Newcastle side, were finally put out of their misery just after Dan Gosling bundled in a stoppage-time strike, which, tellingly, was Bournemouth’s only shot on target.