Sir Alex Ferguson admits it is advantage Manchester City in the title race after his Manchester United side suffered their second straight defeat.
Champions United blew the chance to move level with City at the top of the Premier League and remain three points behind their neighbours.
"Of course it's advantage Man City," said the United manager. "They played on Tuesday and won their game while we have played tonight and have lost ours, so it's advantage to them.
"We don't normally experience that and the only plus for me was that we had two or three players back.
"We will have more back and that could make the difference."
Fergie insists United will not lose their heads, despite losing two successive league games for the first time since March and shipping six goals.
He remains confident that his champions will show their pedigree when it really matters in March and April after losing their first Premier League away game of the season.
"It's no time to panic," he said. "We have experience to cope with losing a game. When you lose a game at this time of the year, you don't want it, but it can happen. You see the results recently and they prove that.
"We have to get the show on the road for the run-in in March and April in particular."
Ferguson dropped keeper David De Gea after his poor showing in the defeat to Blackburn to bring in Anders Lindegaard and claimed the Dane was not at fault on stunning goals by Demba Ba and Yohan Cabaye.
"Any goalkeeper would have had no chance," he said. "They were fantastic strikes and you have got to give the players credit for that.
"We started reasonably well and had a good chance for Wayne Rooney when the ball ran away from his foot. But then they scored a fantastic goal and that picked everyone right up in the stadium.
"Newcastle became aggressive against us and made it difficult for us.
"The second goal was the killer and it was a marvellous strike from the free-kick. But we didn't make enough of our possession, it was one of those nights.
"They are very strong big aggressive lads and Phil Jones is only 19. but they didn't tear us apart.
"They were a handful and I think we can cope with that all right. But the story of the game is two fantastic strikes."
By David Anderson
Champions United blew the chance to move level with City at the top of the Premier League and remain three points behind their neighbours.
"Of course it's advantage Man City," said the United manager. "They played on Tuesday and won their game while we have played tonight and have lost ours, so it's advantage to them.
"We don't normally experience that and the only plus for me was that we had two or three players back.
"We will have more back and that could make the difference."
Fergie insists United will not lose their heads, despite losing two successive league games for the first time since March and shipping six goals.
He remains confident that his champions will show their pedigree when it really matters in March and April after losing their first Premier League away game of the season.
"It's no time to panic," he said. "We have experience to cope with losing a game. When you lose a game at this time of the year, you don't want it, but it can happen. You see the results recently and they prove that.
"We have to get the show on the road for the run-in in March and April in particular."
Ferguson dropped keeper David De Gea after his poor showing in the defeat to Blackburn to bring in Anders Lindegaard and claimed the Dane was not at fault on stunning goals by Demba Ba and Yohan Cabaye.
"Any goalkeeper would have had no chance," he said. "They were fantastic strikes and you have got to give the players credit for that.
"We started reasonably well and had a good chance for Wayne Rooney when the ball ran away from his foot. But then they scored a fantastic goal and that picked everyone right up in the stadium.
"Newcastle became aggressive against us and made it difficult for us.
"The second goal was the killer and it was a marvellous strike from the free-kick. But we didn't make enough of our possession, it was one of those nights.
"They are very strong big aggressive lads and Phil Jones is only 19. but they didn't tear us apart.
"They were a handful and I think we can cope with that all right. But the story of the game is two fantastic strikes."
By David Anderson
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