Newcastle boss Eddie Howe was left pleased with their preseason friendly win against Brest.
Newcastle won 1-0 thanks to Harvey Barnes.
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New signing William Osula also featured and Howe told ChronicleLive: "He did really well when you consider when he joined us he hadn’t trained for seven or eight days with a concussion."
He continued: "It looked like a team that hadn’t had a lot of minutes and it hadn’t when you add up who has played what during pre-season it’s been very fragmented for the players involved, whether that be due to injury or international schedules. We looked rusty.
"I thought it was a bright start, it was a really good opening to the game and we scored a really good goal but just couldn’t sustain that intensity and dropped off. Second-half it was probably about not conceding and we managed to do that."