Unseen Footage From Newcastle’s HUMILIATING 4-1 Defeat to Leeds EXPOSES What Matthias Jaissle Did to His Players at HALF-TIME

Matthias Jaissle spoke about the “s—” Newcastle United feeling that accompanied his beaten-up Toon team on the long bus ride home last night.

United faced a long drive home, like their fans, but Jaissle was open and honest in his post-game Press conference. The unbeaten tag has now disappeared, and Newcastle face a high-flying Hull City outfit at St James’ Park knowing they can’t afford to sign off before the bumper international break and stew in their own juices on the back of a home defeat.

In trying to come to terms with his first Premier League defeat, Jaissle said to reporters: “It feels s–t, for sure. But we need to analyse it straightaway, that’s the most important thing. Already now we have a long bus ride to Newcastle, that’s already the first thing we can do.

“Always try to influence the things you are able to influence, and to work on that. Let’s know about it, know where we can progress, where we need to improve, and hopefully we can see that already on Saturday.”

Jaissle has spoken about Newcastle’s “reality” in recent weeks as well as not getting carried away with the highs or the lows in his early weeks in charge. Context is a valuable word for an injury-hit and young Newcastle side who lost Anthony Elanga in the preparations, Jacob Ramsey in the warm-up and then Nico Gonzalez during the heavy defeat.

Jaissle told Chronicle Live: “Yeah, as you know, we have had many conversations about that. We didn’t see the start of the season as great or better than it was. We were realistic then, and after Leeds, we will also be realistic. It is tough, it is hurtful, and it should be hurtful also for the players and staff.

“The most important thing is that straight away we find the right reaction after that because again, you can lose games, but you should not lose games when the fundamentals are missing.”

When asked about the conversation in the dressing room at 3-0 down and whether it was a case of resorting to damage limitation, the German head coach said: “If you can find a way back into the game (making it 3-1), it would also be damage limitation.

“It was the approach either way (damage limitation). We wanted to encourage the lads who wanted to show up.

“We went in the right direction, we didn’t want negative body language, and we still stuck together as a unit. That was the positive part of the second half. We were not falling apart. With that young squad, we could see a positive aspect from it.”

Daniel Farke’s side are certainly no mugs and sit fifth in the form table since last December, but it was the failure to go to toe to toe with the Yorkshire side that cost Newcastle.

Jaissle said: “I think we were not matching as a team. The level of intensity, the level of duel behaviours, the level of physicality, this is something we need to bring on the pitch in every match, because, again, this is not negotiable; that should be the basics, the fundamentals in football.

“Even [though] these are young lads, the learning curve needs to be fast. I can just say that, of course, it didn’t help that we lost Nico in the first half,” Jaissle added. “You saw then that the team became younger and younger, and this is something we need to be aware of.

“I said that many times, especially when it’s going to be tough, and that was tough, especially in the first half.

“Then additionally, unforced errors taking place before we conceded the goals, then you need to straightaway find the right reaction on the pitch, and today we struggled with that, definitely.”