Alan Pardew: "People get them mixed up sometimes, they talk about the spirit of the side and 'You must have a fantastic spirit to come back from a goal down'.
"You need world-class players.
"You need a world-class player to put that in the top corner from that free-kick to give you a foundation to win the game."
Tony Pulis left Tyneside bemoaning his team's own shortcomings, but largely satisfied with the performance.
Tony Pulis: "It was disappointing. That's been the story of our season away from home this year.
"As a Premier League club, we have competed and performed better away from home this year than in the previous five years, and we have certainly been in more games than we ever have in our time.
"The problem is we shoot ourselves in the foot or things conspire against us, and that's what's happened again today."