Souness frustrated by stalemate

SOUNESS'S VIEW Newcastle 1-1 Portsmouth

Graeme Souness was disappointed Newcastle failed to capitalise on an early goal against Portsmouth and admitted his side "huffed and puffed".

He said: "We made a very good start and I hoped we would build from that, but we didn't. It is frustrating.

"We dominated the game and I don't know how much possession we had, but we ended up with only one point.

"And for all our huffing and huffing, their goalkeeper did not have too many saves to make."

Souness even admitted "on another day, we could have lost it because on three occasions down our left-hand side, they broke on us".

"But we were a near miss. A lot of our stuff was good, a lot of our stuff was poor.

"If we can iron out the times when we are not so good, then we would be a proper team."