Pep Guardiola has stored the identical beginning XI from our 3-0 win over Liverpool for right now’s journey to Newcastle.
The boss is clearly proud of the stability of the workforce entrance defence to assault and so sticks with what labored so effectively towards the Premier League champions.
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It might be an historic day, too, with the potential of Erling Haaland changing into the quickest participant ever to succeed in 100 Premier League targets – on the bottom that the present document holder, Alan Shearer, remains to be a legend.
Line-ups
CITY: Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Nico, Bernardo (C), Foden, Cherki, Doku, Haaland
Subs: Trafford, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Ait-Nouri, Savinho, Khusanov, Bobb
NEWCASTLE: Pope, Livramento, Schar, Thiaw, Corridor, Guimaraes (C), Tonali, Joelinton, J. Murphy, Barnes, Woltemade
Subs: Ramsdale, Ruddy, Botman, Elanga, Willock, A. Murphy, Ramsey, Neave, Miley
Formation and ways
It seems pretty easy on paper.
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Gianluigi Donnarumma can have Matheus Nunes at proper again and Nico O’Reilly at left-back.
Ruben Dias and Josko Gvardiol proceed their blossoming central defensive partnership, whereas in midfield Nico Gonzalez will anchor the midfield three that features Phil Foden and Rayan Cherki.
Bernardo might additionally play centrally, or simply drift in from the fitting, whereas Jeremy Doku can be within the left and Haaland will play as our striker.
Proceed the place we left off?
Worldwide breaks can sometimes be a blessing for groups with a lot of accidents or in poor kind.
An opportunity to regroup, get well and rejuvenate.
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Nevertheless it can be an interruption if you’re a aspect in prime kind.
Metropolis went into the break because the Premier League’s kind workforce and we’ll be seeking to decide up from the place we left off towards Liverpool earlier this month.
Newcastle United won’t have had the best of begins to the season, however they’re all the time a tricky proposition at St James’ Park.
Beginning effectively, getting a aim if doable and quietening the house assist is the perfect state of affairs on a floor we’ve executed extremely effectively on lately.
Woltemade menace
Nick Woltemade has rapidly turn into a talismanic determine on Tyneside.
Standing at six toes, six inches, the German striker is a towering presence within the field and can be a handful for Ruben Dias and Josko Gvardiol.
With six targets in 14 video games, he has rapidly settled into life with the Magpies and he’s an instinctive participant who is difficult to second-guess.
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In fact, with gamers like Anthony Gordon and Bruno Guimarães, the hosts have high quality everywhere in the pitch.
Stats & information
Newcastle United have received simply one among their final 35 Premier League conferences with Metropolis (D6 L28), a 2-1 dwelling win in January 2019 below Rafael Benítez.
Metropolis have received 12 Premier League away video games towards Newcastle, their joint-most away victories towards an opponent within the competitors (additionally 12 vs Everton).
Metropolis have scored in every of their final 33 Premier League video games towards Newcastle. Solely three sides have had an extended scoring streak towards an opponent in top-flight historical past – Chelsea vs Newcastle (37 from 1933-1969), Tottenham vs Newcastle (35 from 1922-1961) and Everton vs Blackburn (34 from 1925-1962).
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Newcastle have misplaced their final two Premier League video games, final dropping extra consecutively in January 2024 (4). They’ve opened the scoring in each of their final two, by no means dropping three in a row when main every time.
Metropolis misplaced two of their first three Premier League video games this season (W1), conceding 4 targets within the course of. Since then they’ve misplaced simply one among their final eight (W6 D1), conceding simply one other 4 targets on this run.
Newcastle have misplaced three Premier League video games regardless of scoring first this season, happening towards Arsenal (1-2), West Ham (1-3) and Brentford (1-3). It’s as many defeats as they’d suffered within the earlier two campaigns mixed (1 in 2024-25, 2 in 2023-24), whereas they final misplaced extra in 2021-22 (4).
Newcastle boss Eddie Howe has received none of his 18 Premier League conferences with Metropolis (D2 L16) – it’s essentially the most a supervisor has confronted an opponent within the competitors with out ever successful.
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Metropolis’s Erling Haaland has 14 Premier League targets this season, nearly twice as many as the subsequent highest scorer (Igor Thiago, 8). His subsequent aim can be his one hundredth within the competitors, whereas a aim on this match (or certainly any of his subsequent 15 apps) will make him the quickest to succeed in this milestone.
Erling Haaland has scored 19 targets in all competitions for Metropolis this season (excl. Membership World Cup). A aim on this match can be the third earliest (by date) a Premier League participant has reached 20 in a marketing campaign, after Andrew Cole in 1993-94 (twenty first November) and Haaland himself in 2022-23 (eighth October).
All three of Nick Woltemade’s non-penalty targets for Newcastle this season have been from first time photographs – solely Jean-Philippe Mateta (4) has scored extra with 100% of them coming from first time photographs.