Newcastle United V Manchester City: Premier League – Live

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Newcastle United make 3 changes to their starting XI aft nan 3-1 conclusion astatine Brentford. Tino Livramento, Fabian Schär and Lewis Hall switch nan injured Kieran Trippier, nan suspended Dan Burn, and nan benched Sven Botman.

Manchester City are very overmuch successful If It Ain’t Broke mode pursuing their 3-0 dispatch of Liverpool. They sanction an unchanged side.

The teams

Newcastle United: Pope, Livramento, Thiaw, Schar, Hall, Guimaraes, Tonali, Joelinton, Jacob Murphy, Woltemade, Barnes.
Subs: Ruddy, Ramsdale, Botman, Elanga, Willock, Alex Murphy, Ramsey, Miley, Neave.

Manchester City: Donnarumma, Matheus Luiz, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Silva, Gonzalez, Foden, Cherki, Haaland, Doku.
Subs: Trafford, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Ait Nouri, Savio, Khusanov, Bobb.

Referee: Sam Barrott.
VAR: Craig Pawson.

Preamble

Newcastle person won conscionable one (!) of their past 35 (!!!jesuswept!!!) convention meetings pinch Manchester City, losing 28 of them, while their head Eddie Howe’s individual convention grounds against nan nine is P18 D2 L16. There’s really nary different measurement to framework this, is there? Godspeed, Magpie Nation.

Not wishing to further harsh what remains of Newcastle’s pre-match buzz, but City person scored successful every 1 of their past 33 convention matches against them. That’s not good, which is an eagle-eyed study snapped into moreover sharper attraction by nan truth that only 3 sides successful English top-flight history person bettered specified a tally against nan aforesaid opponent, and 2 of those person been against … well, look …

• Chelsea v Newcastle United: 37 games betwixt 1933 and 1969

• Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle United: 35 games betwixt 1922 and 1961

• Everton v Blackburn Rovers: 34 games betwixt 1925 and 1962

Oh Newcastle! You really request to footwear this habit. Starting tonight? Well, nan Toon person mislaid their past 2 convention games, while Erling Haaland already has 14 goals domestically this play – and 32 successful 20 wide – so, erstwhile again, godspeed. Any members of nan Toon Army, whose humor whitethorn beryllium boiling upon reference nan contents of this preamble, tin convey america later if we’ve tempted nan Football Gods into thing that skews nan stats, bordering connected seismic. Kick-off is astatine 5.30pm GMT, and Nick Woltemade had amended lace up his shooting boots this evening, is each we’re saying. It’s on!