Howe hoped De Bruyne 'was rusty' ahead of Premier League return
Newcastle boss Eddie Howe talks about they dealt with Kevin de Bruyne in their 3-2 defeat to Manchester City
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00:00 You just hope he's rusty and he's not up to full speed yet and then he comes on and delivers that and you think,
00:04 'No, there's no rustiness there, he's straight in.'
00:08 You know his qualities and you just hope that you can minimise the space for him,
00:14 take away the opportunities for him to hurt you with his range.
00:17 He crosses the ball so well.
00:20 For the majority of the half, or when he was on, we dealt with those situations really well.
00:26 But of course for his goal we didn't defend well enough and then for the assist at the end,
00:30 that was hugely frustrating because with just three minutes to see out,
00:33 you thought we were almost there.