Newcastle United midfielder Ryan Fraser admits the locker room was silent after their defeat at Brighton on Saturday.

The return of Callum Wilson and Allan Saint-Maximin will be a huge boost next month, but Newcastle simply can't afford any more performances like this.

"It's horrible," Fraser told NUFC TV. "No one's going to be happy about it. Everyone is down, no one is speaking in there. We've obviously spoken to each other as well and got stuff off our chests.

"We can't be too down. We're still not in the bottom three. We don't want to be in there. We've still got games to save it and I know we keep saying our next game is massive but it really is.

"Every game between now and the end of the season - it doesn't matter who it's against - is a cup final. This club can't go down and we'll make sure that it doesn't."