Leeds United fell to defeat at St. James’ Park despite Brenden Aaronson’s well taken brace against Newcastle United.

The attacker now has three goals in the Whites’ last two matches but, speaking to the media after the match, the American international was disappointed his team were unable to pick up a deserved point.

“I am devastated,” Aaronson admitted. “That is football at the end of the day, and of course I am mad at myself, but I think we could have done better defending on a couple of occasions.

“I think we are in a little bit of a situation where when we score, we are kind of giving up a goal not too long after, so I think we need to change that and we will look at that.

“We are all upset. We know that we let this slip away a little bit but you always have to take the positives. To come here and to go up three times in a row and almost tie and win the game shows how good this team is. We need to just keep going from here.

“We need to not let this bring us down. We have an FA Cup game at the weekend and then right back into the league at home.”