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Dan Burn's wild celebrations vs Spurs explained as Newcastle United boss hails Joe Willock pass

Eddie Howe and the Newcastle United bench's celebrations for the fourth goal against Tottenham Hotspur could hardly have been wilder during the 6-1 demolition at St James' Park.

Burn sprinted to the bench and dived into his colleagues in the dugout after a moment that few people were talking about following Alexander Isak's first goal. For Burn's sliding challenge on Dejan Kulusevski allowed Bruno to pick the ball up and slip it wide to Joe Willock before that outrageous bending pass with the outside of his boot.

Howe said: "There are so many ways you can look at it. You look at how goals are scored.

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"It's an incredible number of goals that come from innocuous things. Whether that's a second ball, header or throw in.

"You have to appreciate the beauty of those things that look mundane or normal. Dan Burn's part in that goal was crucial or you wouldn't get Joe Willock's pass."

Asking his players to start like they did on Sunday in the game at Goodison Park may be a stretch after they ran into a 5-0 lead inside 21 minutes. But Howe wants more of the same in terms of intensity, he said: "I think the plan is always to start like that. You want the intensity, you want to take the game to the opposition. I think that, by and large, we've done that really, really well.

"I think where we've had issues has been the last couple of weeks (when) we haven't started in that fashion, so certainly that's something to take into this game and to learn from. The start against Spurs would be a great example of what we want, but we're not going to get that start to every week."

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