TF Player Ratings - Newcastle Utd 1-4 Bournemouth

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Martin Dúbravka - 6

Kept the score down to less embarrassing levels with a couple of really good saves. Hard to pin any real blame on him as he was exposed time and time again. Rare to see the keeper on one of the highest ratings after a four goal defeat, but Dúbravka can't be blamed for today's calamity.

Tino Livramento - 5

United had obviously totally forgotten about the game at Dean Court in August when Semenyo caused all sorts of trouble, because Livramento couldn't handle him today. Livramento is all about getting the ball and going forward. When a player pins him back and gets him thinking about defending (Brentford away was similar), the results are a mess at times. Like most of the team today, it was one to forget, but one to learn from.

Dan Burn - 5

Burn has been as good as anyone in the country lately, but today he was firefighting too much at the back and trying to mop up for other people’s mess for his own performance not to go down the swanny as well. When he made a perfect tackle in the first half, it briefly got the crowd up and us on the front foot, but a raking pass which flew straight out of play soon after summed his day up. Also lost possession for at least one of the goals.

Sven Botman - 5

What you don't want after a long injury lay off is a team turning you back towards your own goal with quick passing and balls over the top. Again Bournemouth did their homework and it was no shock to see him replaced at half time. Hopefully just because of a poor first half rather than any injury.

Lewis Hall - 4

Listen, it happens. Hall has been incredible this season but he was awful today. He got turned inside out from the first whistle, he was an accident waiting to happen in possession, and that rabbit in the headlights player at Dortmund last season replaced the one who has looked so unflappable and superb this season. He knew he was shite and almost apologetically took the adulation from the East stand as he went off.

Sandro Tonali - 5

Probably the best of a bad bunch in midfield today, but the fact it was one of his worst performances since his return from the ban says it all. He rescued Hall with a great saving tackle and he won the ball consistently throughout the afternoon. That said, you can't ignore the numerous times he gave the ball away. This was a disease which spread throughout the team when put under pressure. Tonali doesn't escape that particular wrath.

Bruno Guimarães - 5

Flicked Newcastle level from a rare potent corner but that has been long forgotten about. Bruno has been back to his best lately, but this was a return back to the autumn as he produced one of those frustrating performances which we had come to expect before the golden tweak of position. Some of the passing was reckless to the point of ridiculous, the gifting of Bournemouth's second goal could have happened again and again. He struggled badly in the second half.

Joelinton - 5

At least showed some heart and aggression with some tasty first half tackles. Bournemouth however, wound him up like one of those toys and he got that much involved with that and the ref (who was useless to be fair) that he was in the middle of their celebrations after the fourth goal squaring up to someone. I thought he might have gotten away with that square up in the first half as well. One day that sort of carry on is going to cost us mark my words.

Jacob Murphy - 5

Started the game well. He looked our only outlet in that first quarter as we were camped in our own half. However he faded really badly after that to the point where he fell on the ball. The bloke near me said he lost his man for the first goal (he despises Murphy so maybe not justice unbiased) but he hardly got a sniff and after the heroics of lately, like the team as a whole, reality bit hard today.

Anthony Gordon - 5

Like everyone else, Gordon’s level dropped to that dangerous borderland of being shite and off-colour (depends on the player's popularity whether you need to get the passport out and go past border control). His day can be summed up by him spooning the rebound from that free kick over. Even for his best moment, when he set up Bruno’s goal, it came after a shocking first attempt at a corner. Looked tired and flustered. Didn't we all.

Alexander Isak - 4

If you had been dropped from the moon and were promised the most shit hot striker in world football, you would have been scratching your head today, as Isak was unrecognisable from the tour de force we've had lately. Mitigation comes in the shape of not much service, but he looked disinterested and on the wing most of the time. He even tried to take a corner. This wasn't the real Isak and a game too far.

SUBSTITUTES

Fabian Schär, for Botman, 46 minutes - 4

Schär was brought on to sort things out but somehow he made the malaise even worse back there. Let me tell you, that was hard to do. Dúbravka dug him out of a hole after a terrible, lazy clearance and as I said last weekend, his confidence after losing his place looks to have really gone.

Kieran Trippier, for Hall, 66 minutes - 4

Like above (though not quite as bad) he didn't really improve the situation after coming on and Semenyo was in the sort of fettle that it didn't matter whether it was Hall or Trippier he was skinning at that point.

Joe Willock, for Murphy 66 minutes - 3

The cherry on the top of the underwhelming substitutes was this lad. A strange performance in which he confirmed what we've all secretly thought lately. We might not get THAT player back to the levels of before, which is a crying shame.

Will Osula, for Guimarães, 90 minutes - 4

The fact we conceded twice in the eight minutes he was on, probably wasn't down to him to be fair.

Scott Robson