Newcastle United (A) - Sat 28th Sept, 12:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[waspish]

One from Gundo and Foden won't start. Maybe Grealish too, Doku instead. Generally, Doku might be more useful away from home where the opposition is more likely to take risks and leave free spaces.

Yeah think it be this Lewis will play and help out in midfield sav Doku need to crest for Haaland Silva needs to be the control

_________Ed

Lewis_Akanji_Dias_Gvardiol

_____Kovacic__Gundo

Sav______Silva___Doku

____Haaland

 

[richards30]

I think Kev will be fine for this.

Ederson
Lewis
Akanji
Dias
Gvardiol
Kovacic
Bernardo
De Bruyne
Savinho
Grealish
Haaland

 

[JPAMCR]

Think our midfield lads will be in for a bit of a kicking on Saturday. As long as we don’t overreact to it I’ll think we’ll be fine. Watched a bit of their Fulham game last week and they were dog shit at the back.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Luckily the barcodes look miles off it at the moment.

Until Saturday when they become prime Brazil against us...

 

[Ric]

Luckily the barcodes look miles off it at the moment.

They were poor against Fulham, but other than that they've had a pretty good start to the season. Going to be a very difficult game, especially as they'll have had a full weeks rest.

 

[blueparrot]

They were poor against Fulham, but other than that they've had a pretty good start to the season. Going to be a very difficult game, especially as they'll have had a full weeks rest.

They've had a good start points wise, but the Newcastle fans I know think they have beeen lucky to get those points.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

They were poor against Fulham, but other than that they've had a pretty good start to the season. Going to be a very difficult game, especially as they'll have had a full weeks rest.

I thought they were poor against Spurs and Wolves but somehow managed to get three points in both games.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Ederson

Walker
Dias
Akanji
Gvardiol

Kovacic
Bernardo
Foden

Savio
Haaland
Grealish

 

[mancboy]

I thought they were poor against Spurs and Wolves but somehow managed to get three points in both games.

Definitely spurs went all spursy in that game and should defo have had the 3 points, against wolves it was much the same wolves should have been a few up and it was an absolute thunderbolt that got em the points.

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

Kick off time 12:30 (BST). Live on TNT Sports for those in the UK.

Let's not let that salvaged point be for nothing, need to back it up here. Newcastle away is one of the hardest fixtures on paper.

It'll be interesting how we're going to adapt without Rodri, first league game following his injury and it's a proper test.

Early team prediction would be:
----------------Ederson
Lewis---Dias---Akanji---Gvardiol
---------Kovacic---Gundogan
Savinho-----Bernardo----Grealish
------------------Haaland

I am worried about creativity, no Rodri and I assume De Bruyne isn't back yet. Foden doesn't look sharp enough to start this one.

Worried about creativity with Savinho and Grealish in there????