From four successive shots, between the 23rd and 34th minutes, Newcastle scored four times — and that clinical 11-minute spell includes the two-minutes-plus taken to award a penalty following a VAR review.

Before kick-off, much was made of the looming midfield duel between Miley and another Newcastle academy graduate, Forest’s Elliot Anderson but of that pair, it was Howe’s No 67 who built the stronger case for a senior England call-up.

Alexander Isak scored twice in a 12-minute, 4-goal first-half blitz as Newcastle United needed every bit to beat Nottingham Forest 4-3 at St. James' Park on Sunday.