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Newcastle United skipper Jamaal Lascelles has made it clear that Aston Villa’s late equaliser on Saturday night was a team fault - not an error by Matz Sels.

The Belgian goalkeeper deactivated his Twitter account after being flooded with a host of vile messages after the game at Villa Park.

Lascelles, however, insists the fact that Newcastle dropped two points wasn’t down to the 24-year-old.

He told Chroniclelive: “Goalkeepers are like defenders, whenever we make a mistake it gets blown up out or proportion. Much more than when a striker misses a chance.

“Nobody was to blame, he’s kept clean sheets this season and has been excellent. He wasn’t at fault for the goal as there were a build-up of mistakes before that.

“Nobody is on his back and we will take it as a team. Whenever a goal is conceded we won’t point fingers at individuals.

“We will look at it as a team and look at it collectively and how we could have stopped it even getting to that position.”

Now Lascelles wants to see togetherness on the pitch and in the stand ahead of the big clash with Norwich City.

He said: “Us playing in these shirts ask high standards of each other, as players we want to do well as much as the fans.

“The minute the opposition score people may be on our backs. The fans will stick with us and we won’t point fingers.

“We will deal with it as a team and correct it in training.”