"I think the goal straight away, near enough, after half-time changes the whole feeling around the stadium and the game itself,"
"It was just a lapse of concentration from our perspective, I think."
"Then we didn't react maybe well enough to that, conceded the second, and from there it was difficult."
"Mentally, we didn't start the second half as well as we wanted to. Obviously Aubameyang's 36 years old, but he's still sharp and can still finish and showed his quality today. When you go 2-1 down away from home and you've got to break them down, it's tough. I thought it was a pretty good performance, but key moments cost us. I thought we had chances we could have scored and didn't capitalise on, and then obviously two goals, we're very disappointed."
Newcastle United led 1-0 at half-time through Harvey Barnes but conceded twice early in the second half to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and lost 2-1 in Marseille. The first Aubameyang goal came within 20 seconds of the restart when he rounded goalkeeper Nick Pope and finished; the second arrived in the 50th minute from Timothy Weah's low cross. Eddie Howe described a lapse of concentration at the restart as decisive. Dan Burn noted Aubameyang's finishing quality despite his age and said Newcastle created chances but failed to capitalise, making a comeback difficult.
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