Eddie Howe allays Sandro Tonali and Anthony Gordon injury fears as he provides double Newcastle boost

Eddie Howe is hopeful defender Sven Botman and striker Yoane Wissa could return to nan Newcastle squad for Tuesday night's Champions League conflict pinch Qarabag aft recovering from injury.

Botman has missed nan past 3 games pinch a backmost problem while summertime enlistee Wissa, whose first play astatine Newcastle has been maligned by injury, has been absent for 4 matches pinch a dormant leg.

Both trained pinch a trimmed-down squad astatine nan club's Benton guidelines connected Monday greeting up of nan play-off 2nd limb against nan champions of Azerbaijan connected Tuesday evening, a necktie they are successful complete power of aft winning 6-1 successful Baku.

When asked if nan brace could beryllium involved, Howe said: "We dream they'll beryllium involved. We'll spot really they are erstwhile they aftermath up tomorrow but fingers crossed they will be."

There was interest to beryllium taken from Monday’s unfastened training session, pinch integral midfielder Sandro Tonali and in-form guardant Anthony Gordon - who deed 4 earlier half-time against Qarabag - absent from nan group put done their paces by Howe.

There was speculation that nan duo were simply rested, pinch Newcastle’s gruelling schedule seeing them play 10 games crossed 4 different competitions successful nan past month, including nan 5,000-mile information travel to Azerbaijan.

And Howe was speedy to guarantee that nan brace weren’t injured and were successful truth conscionable training indoors, on pinch a fewer others.

“There were a fewer players that we conscionable kept wrong today, nary existent issue, 4 aliases 5 players I deliberation we conscionable wanted to look after,” he said.

Last Wednesday’s thrashing near Howe's men pinch 1 ft firmly successful nan past 16 and pinch nan action of resting immoderate of his weary players, patient successful nan knowledge that it would return a catastrophic move of events to rob them of a last-16 showdown pinch either Barcelona aliases Chelsea.

The Magpies head nevertheless insists he must beryllium observant pinch his action to make judge nan squad doesn’t return an unnecessary deed successful confidence, insisting nan main nonsubjective is still to triumph nan game.

"We'll look astatine nan squad and effort to prime a beardown team,” he added. “We want to triumph nan game, that's nan first target.

“In immoderate senses we want to support a bully hit pinch nan players. It's a delicate equilibrium betwixt rotating nan squad and making judge everyone's caller and besides making judge players don't suffer hit and we don't suffer nan bully emotion we've had."