While this felt like the break of a new dawn for Aston Villa, everything stays the same for Newcastle United.
Mike Ashley is owner. Steve Bruce is manager. And a team of talented-enough players lose matches in which they should be doing better.
Villa — minus Jack Grealish for the first time on home turf — weren't great. They didn't have to be. That is too often the way against Newcastle, who amounted to less than the sum of their parts.
Two defeats from two matches does not spell crisis.