Eddie Howe: Bournemouth manager ‘consumed’ by relegation fight

Eddie Howe talks to his Bournemouth players

Eddie Howe (left) has restricted attacking strategies for Bournemouth’s sport towards Newcastle

Bournemouth supervisor Eddie Howe says the membership’s Premier League relegation fight is “drinking” him but insists they’ll preserve their closing seven games.

The Cherries are in the relegation zone on aim difference, having taken good one point from the previous 18 on hand.

“I am hurting from this instruct, I’m now not going to lie. Or now not it’s painful,” acknowledged Howe, accountable since 2012.

“I am the employ of all of those emotions to attend pronounce the crew in the manner we desire to lunge.”

Bournemouth host Newcastle United on Wednesday (18: 00 BST kick-off), sooner than a grand run of 4 fixtures towards Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Leicester Metropolis and Manchester Metropolis.

Splendid Crystal Palace and bottom membership Norwich Metropolis having scored fewer than the 29 league targets the Cherries recognize managed this season.

“There is no phase of me that is feeling sorry for myself or despondent,” acknowledged Howe.

“Or now not it’s miles a motivated, fully energised, fully focused supervisor that the players are getting to earn results and to compose our targets.

“I mediate we are in a position to preserve every sport we recognize now between now and the discontinuance of the season. No sport is a write-off.

“We desire to initiate successful and performing very rapid.”

Howe will be with out suspended top scorer Callum Wilson towards the Magpies, while fellow forward Joshua King is a first-rate doubt because of an ankle damage.

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