Newcastle boss Eddie Howe has warned his players their morale-boosting win over Manchester City will count for little if they do not back it up with positive results against Marseille and Everton .

Howe's side ended a run of two Premier League defeats with a 2-1 victory over Pep Guardiola's men at St James' Park on Saturday evening with arguably their best performance of the season to date.

However, amid an unrelenting schedule which sees them head for the south of France in the Champions League on Tuesday night ahead of Saturday's league trip to Merseyside, head coach Howe knows it is only a start.

"The acid test is Marseille and Everton," he said. "We have to now go away in the Champions League to a very difficult opponent and we need to perform.

"We'll get very limited res

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