Paris St-Germain v Newcastle: How can Eddie Howe’s side cure travel sickness in Champions League?

Yet that is easier said than done.

There is a belief internally that there have been times on the road this season where Newcastle have been dragged into the games the opposition wanted rather than imposing their own style on them as planned.

As much as it has been influenced by the need to pick their moments to aggressively press during a relentless schedule, they have, on average, had more of the ball and more 10-plus open play passing sequences per game this season.

But Newcastle have not always made the most of all that possession, and they failed to find a breakthrough in the goalless stalemate against Wolves earlier this month despite having 67% possession of the ball.

Toothless Newcastle’s pass completion rate of 94% in the first half at Molineux was the highest any Premier League team has registered in a half without hitting a shot on target.

Howe’s side have often lacked the guile to find a way through a low block, which then feeds into their main issue on the road – a lack of goals.

As season-ticket holder Adam Stoker observed, it is rather telling that on the rare occasions Newcastle scored inside two minutes, the visitors went on to beat both Everton and Burnley – even if the latter success was far from straightforward.

“When we play against teams at home who do sit in a bit more, the crowd can get the players over the line,” he said.

“Whereas, against Wolves away, when they were the ones sitting, and their crowd got behind them, that helped them.

“It feels like we’re able to play slightly differently at home than we are away. We just look a bit of a different beast.”

It has got to the stage where Howe has tried to move the focus away from where a game is taking place with his players.

Rather than overthinking the venue, he has instead called on his side to simply attack each fixture – regardless of where it is played.

Starting with Wednesday’s trip to the holders in Paris.

“There’s rightly been a lot of questions asked about our away form and our ability to handle pressure, to be resilient in times where we’re not the dominant team,” added Howe.

“We probably haven’t done that well enough this year and then, of course, when you get the moments, you need to show your quality the other way,

“This will be a really good game to try and answer some questions, and show ourselves that we can be effective in every environment.”