However, Newcastle will regret the manner of that second Tottenham equaliser.
On a night when Spurs had completely denied Newcastle’s goal, the hosts gifted their visitors their second shot on target in the final minutes.
Aaron Ramsdale, who is replacing injured goalkeeper Nick Pope, decided to punch substitute Mathis Tell’s corner but it did not clear the box and the ball curled spectacularly inside the area.
What happened next felt like it was happening in slow motion.
Romero, who had earlier cautioned in front of goal, was given time and space to line up his overhead kick as no Newcastle players attacked the ball.
There was still a chance for someone to stop it, but the ball crossed the sea of black and white shirts and passed to Ramsdale, who was slow to react.
St. James’ was stunned.
It brought back memories of Rio Ngumoha’s 100th-minute winner for Liverpool in August and Arsenal defender Gabriel’s 96th-minute knockout blow in September.
“You can look at every moment and identify a mistake or some part of the team not doing their job,” Howe said. “Our job is to train the team to be better in those situations and that’s what we’ll try to do.
“But sometimes it becomes psychological, sometimes it becomes a fear of accepting and you assume. There’s a lot of it, but when we’re in front we’ve got to find ways to get better and usually the best way to defend ourselves is to attack and I encourage us to do that all the time.
“Sometimes you have to accept that you’re not in a position to do that in the game, and you just have to look at it and defend better. Today was one of those moments where we didn’t do that.”
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