Lewis Miley is blessed with the ability of seeing things half a second before other players and the Newcastle midfielder also possesses the happy knack of finding precisely the right word at the right moment.
“It was a hectic game,” said the 18‑year‑old, with typically nuanced understatement at the end of a sometimes error-strewn yet always thrilling encounter. Anyone doubting the determination of Eddie Howe and Nuno Espírito Santo to take their players on grand European tours next season will have revised such opinions after watching the wildly oscillating frenzy that unfolded on a cold Tyneside afternoon.
