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Eddie Howe has urged teenager Lewis Miley to comply with within the footsteps of fellow Academy graduate Sean Longstaff as he makes an attempt to determine himself as a daily at Newcastle.
The 17-year-old took one other important step in his fledgling profession on Saturday when he turned the membership’s youngest Premier League goalscorer to encourage his boyhood workforce to a 3-0 victory over Fulham at St James’ Park.
Miley’s rise since he made his senior debut at Chelsea in Could has been vastly spectacular, however he nonetheless has a lot to be taught and head coach Howe has advised him to take his lead from established first-teamer Longstaff, who has already travelled the same path.
Howe mentioned: “The comparability between Sean and Lewie is an excellent one. Sean is doing actually, rather well now after a barely troublesome time for him.
“Sean has turn out to be such a pivotal participant for us, and what I really like about him is that he’s Newcastle by and thru. He lives and breathes the whole lot to do with Newcastle.
“He’s nonetheless concerned within the Academy, he nonetheless goes again to observe video games and he’s by no means forgotten the place he’s come from and the way he’s bought to the place he’s bought to. He’s very grateful for everybody’s help in his journey.
“I feel they’re nice traits for Lewie to retain as properly, and I’m positive Lewie will try this with the household he has behind him.”
Miley had initially been rested for Saturday’s sport, with Longstaff changing him after recovering from harm.
Nonetheless, the teenager discovered himself pressed into motion earlier than the break when Joelinton adopted defender Fabian Schar again down the tunnel with the pair each having suffered muscle accidents which may preserve them out of Tuesday night time’s Carabao Cup quarter-final journey to Chelsea.
By that time, the guests had already been decreased to 10-men following Raul Jimenez’s reckless problem on Longstaff, however had regrouped to frustrate the hosts till Miley’s massive second arrived.
If Bruno Guimaraes was the architect with an insistent 57th-minute run which took him previous a collection of defenders on the sting of the field, it was the 17-year-old who utilized the end with a low right-foot strike throughout keeper Bernd Leno and contained in the far publish.
Lewis Miley discovered the online towards Fulham
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Miley advised NUFC TV: “It was a extremely particular one for me and my household particularly. To see the ball go into the again of the online was a extremely good second for me, and hopefully there’s tons extra.
“It was undoubtedly the whole lot I’d dreamt of. I’ve been right here since I used to be a a boy watching all of the video games and as soon as I scored that, I used to be buzzing.”
Miguel Almiron added a second seven minutes later and Dan Burn accomplished the scoring to clinch a seventh successive residence league win as Fulham lastly wilted, though boss Marco Silva was at a loss to know why Raul had been despatched off by referee Sam Barrott and Jamaal Lascelles had not for a problem on the striker minutes earlier.
Silva mentioned: “I can settle for the pink card in the event that they determine it’s proper, however two minutes earlier than, the identical referee and the identical VAR individual gave nothing. For me, it’s clear that Lascelles elbowed Raul.”