Flights
Invite to the Manchester City v Newcastle sneak peek.
Saturday 15th February– 3pm.
Newcastle United take a trip to Manchester City this Saturday for a substantial six-pointer, in the understanding that triumph would see them leapfrog their challengers and might go a long method to protecting Champions League football for next season.
Manchester City will be desperate to perpetuate their extraordinary league record in your home to Newcastle and likewise draw the line under their last league match, a devastating knocking at the hands of Arsenal. It’s an uncommon 3pm Saturday kick-off for both of these groups due to the reality that, extremely, the match of the weekend has actually been ignored for live UK television protection.
Type
Newcastle are on a great run of kind that now extends back over 2 months.
Twelve wins in fourteen matches throughout 3 competitors sees us 6th in the league, into the Carabao Cup last and the last sixteen of the FA Cup.
In the league, we’ve won 4 of our previous 6 video games with success over Man United, Tottenham, Wolves and Southampton, being rather balanced out by frustrating home beats versus Bournemouth and Fulham. Newcastle United have actually scored twelve objectives in these video games and yielded 8. We’ll end the weekend in between 4th and seventh.
Guy City have actually won 4, drawn one and lost among their previous 6 league matches. They’ve delighted in wins over Leicester, West Ham, Ipswich and Chelsea, whilst drawing with Brentford and suffering a heavy defeat to Arsenal. They’ve scored eighteen objectives in these 6 matches and yielded 9. They’ll likewise end the weekend in between 4th and seventh.
Last time out
Newcastle disappeared to St Andrew’s to deal with Birmingham in the FA Cup and made it through a scare when going an objective down inside the very first forty one seconds. Close quarters strikes from Joe Willock and Callum Wilson put the Toon in front and when Willock had actually another objective prohibited, it appeared like the Toon might run riot. Back came Birmingham nevertheless, who then netted with the objective of the video game to level ball games and established a pulsating 2nd half. This tie was now in the balance and might go in either case! When the winning objective did come, luckily it was Joe Willock who fired home to send out the Toon into the last sixteen where they’ll play host to Brighton in among 4 all Premier League ties.
Male City hosted the magnificent Real Madrid on Tuesday night and might well have had the packing knocked out of them by a deeply frustrating late capitulation, that saw them yield two times in the last 5 minutes to turn a 2-1 benefit into a 3-2 defeat. The effort appeared to have actually been done through a Haaland brace however Madrid are now red-hot favourites to advance into the next round.
Stat attack!
(Look away now!)
Newcastle have actually never ever won a league match away at Man City given that they moved into their glossy brand-new arena over twenty years earlier!
NUFC have actually stopped working to discover the internet in their previous 6 sees to the Etihad in all competitors. The last objective coming thanks to DeAndre Yedlin in 2018.
Newcastle’s last league win away at Man City was available in September 2000, when a 2nd half header from Alan Shearer provided the Toon a 1-0 win.
Remarkable match
When Alan Pardew’s Newcastle checked out The Etihad in a 2014 League Cup tie, barely anybody offered this young group an opportunity of springing an upset. Rolando Aarons had other concepts nevertheless and took simply 5 minutes to break into package and slip the ball in between the ‘keeper’s legs to put the Toon 1-0 up and send out the away end into delirium. With Ryan Taylor having a stormer on his very first video game back for 2 years, Newcastle continued to threaten and were frantically unfortunate not to be granted a charge. We rode our luck sometimes (specifically when Coloccini deflected an effort versus his own post) however ultimately went out 2-0 winners, when Sissoko remarkably beat his male before ending up in front of the pleased away fans, who goaded City advocates by enjoying a Poznan event that the blues had actually just recently made their own. NUFC had actually disposed the holders out of the cup and protected a location in the quarter-finals, on a night when whatever went. Last Score: Man City 0-2 Newcastle
Bet both
Craig Bellamy signed from Norwich in 2001 and ended up being an important part of Sir Bobby’s group that received the Champions League. Scoring on his home launching versus Sunderland made him an immediate hero and what was to follow over the next 4 and half years would sometimes defy belief! From the highs of scoring 2 essential away objectives versus Feyenoord to the lows of a public spat with Graeme Souness, life was never ever dull with Craig Bellamy around! Forty 3 objectives in one hundred and twenty 8 video games does not even start to inform the tale of Bellamy’s time at NUFC.
He was to leave on something of a sour note and some inexpedient text messages to a specific Mr Shearer after a cup semi-final defeat did little to enhance his standing among Toon fans. He was consequently booed when betting Newcastle for Liverpool, West Ham and Man City and repaid us by scoring for all 3. He signed for Man City in 2009 and netted fifteen objectives in fifty one video games for the residents.
Joey Barton started his profession at Man City and invested 5 years there before signing for Sam Allardyce’s NUFC in 2007. Breaking his foot on his launching in a friendly away at Carlisle set the tone for a turbulent time at NUFC that was really disrupted by a spell in jail! Like Bellamy, his Tyneside period was filled with highs, lows, occurrences, drama, fall-outs and even the odd little playing football! He’s kept in mind for scoring an outright cracker versus Aston Villa on our go back to the Premier League in 2010, opening the scoring in a 6-0 thrashing.
Shay Given signed for Kenny Dalglish in 1997 and was on course to end up being the club’s most capped gamer before an abrupt departure to Man City in January 2009. Among the very best goalkeepers of our Premier League age, Given was a vital part of Sir Bobby’s side that challenged for the title and made the last sixteen of the Champions League. Regardless of nearly twelve years of heroics, he’s still best kept in mind as the only Irishman who does not understand where Dublin is!
Supervisors
Eddie Howe after a 3-2 success over Birmingham in the FA Cup:
“It was a truly challenging video game. We understood it was going to be difficult and we yielded after a minute, all your ideas are validated truly. The environment then is electrical in the arena and I believed we succeeded to browse the early part of the video game due to the fact that it was a tough very first half for us. Psychologically, physically– you might see a couple of gamers were on the edge today. We’re thrilled to make it through. We handled to get a grip and did truly well. At half-time it had to do with remaining calm. I believed we did that a lot much better in the 2nd half.”
Pep Guardiola after a 3-2 home defeat to Real Madrid:
“I believe they began well for 15 minutes and after we took the video game and we were actually excellent with the ball. In the 2nd half, we might not make the passes that we required to play. We wished to assault so rapidly however when we assault so fast with the strikers that they have it’s harder. After it was 2-1 however it took place excessive this season. In numerous video games it took place, versus Feyernoord, Sporting Lisbon, Brentford in the Premier League Man United, lots of video games we handed out. We need to take a look at ourselves and at this level it’s so challenging. It’s not the very first time regrettably it took place sometimes which’s why it’s so challenging.”
Charity
As it is an away match, Newcastle United fans will not be gathering opposite the Gallowgate end, for the food bank. You can still assist out and all online money contributions are extremely much valued. For additional information and/or to contribute to the food bank online go HERE.
Forecast
This marks the start of an important run of league components for the Toon, as we deal with 3 of the leading 5 in successive video games.
A great return from these matches would offer the best springboard for Champions League certification. Male City look unsteady at the minute and will have half an eye on their midweek journey to Madrid. I expensive the Toon to come far from this one with a really important point. Manchester City 1-1 Newcastle.
Newcastle United upcoming matches:
Saturday 15 February– Male City v Newcastle (3pm)
Sunday 23 February– Newcastle v Forest (2pm) Sky Sports
Wednesday 26 February– Liverpool v Newcastle (8.15 pm) TNT Sports
Sunday 2 March–Newcastle v Brighton (1.45 pm) FA Cup 5th round ITV1
Monday 10 March — West Ham v Newcastle (8pm) Sky Sports
Saturday 16 March — Newcastle v Liverpool (4.30 pm) Carabao Cup last– Sky Sports
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