Jaissle on Newcastle’s draw with Fulham, Steur injury worry and Dedic incident

Newcastle United boss Matthias Jaissle believes his side did enough to win at Fulham and was left frustrated by the decision to disallow Dan Burn’s goal.

Jaissle felt Newcastle created enough opportunities to take all three points at Craven Cottage and was particularly unhappy with the call that ruled out Burn’s effort, which was disallowed for a separate foul by Yoane Wissa.

“I believe we did enough,” Jaissle said.

“Today, I think the occasions where we could have scored were there.

“So we had the chances, even the occasion where we scored, and unfortunately the referee was taking it away, which in my eyes was not right.

“But that’s just my point of view.”

Jaissle described the call as a “soft decision” and compared it with an incident from Newcastle’s previous game.

“I learned that phrase here, a soft decision,” he said.

“That’s what I meant, without taking it as an excuse.

“But last week, an occasion where Fabian was bleeding in the face, and then this as a comparison, for me that’s difficult to understand and to digest.

“But again, that’s my point of view.”

Despite his frustration, Jaissle was encouraged by Newcastle’s overall display following their previous performance.

“Many, many aspects to build on, I think, compared to the last match,” he said.

“We spoke clearly during the week and you saw that today also, that there was a complete commitment on the pitch, togetherness in all phases of the game.”

Sean Steur was withdrawn during the game, but Jaissle played down any injury concern and praised the youngster’s performance.

“I think he’s good, he’s fine, but he felt also that the physicality is not 100 per cent there,” Jaissle said.

“That’s something I mentioned already before, this is normal if you sign a young lad, that he needs to get used to that.

“But he did an amazing job, so again, also something to build on.”

Jaissle also praised Amar Dedic’s performance following reports of an incident involving him carrying a crossbow in public, which led to the police getting involved.

“He played well, right?” Jaissle said.

“So I think it didn’t affect him, we talked about it, he was not aware about these rules, but I think we don’t need to make a bigger topic out of it.”