The groups information is in at St James’ Park, the place Newcastle United tackle Leicester Metropolis in in the present day’s 3pm kick off.
Right here’s how the 2 sides line up as Eddie Howe’s Mags face Ruud Van Nistelrooy’s Foxes:
Newcastle XI: Dubravka – Livramento, Schar, Burn, Corridor – Bruno, Tonali, Joelinton – Murphy, Isak, Gordon.
SUBS: Vlachodimos, Barnes, Willock, Osula, Kelly, Targett, Almiron, Longstaff, Trippier.
Leicester XI: Hermansen, Justin, Coady, Vestergaard, Kristiansen, Choudhury, Skipp, McAteer, El Khannouss, Mavididi, Vardy
SUBS: B: Ward, Faes, Okoli, Thomas, De Cordova-Reid, Buonanotte, Cartwright, Ayew, Daka.
Howe has made three adjustments from final Saturday’s 4-2 defeat at Brentford, seeing Gordon, Tonali and Dubravka change Barnes, Longstaff and Pope.
Willock is again within the squad, however Pope is out for a month after struggling a knee harm and there’s no Callum Wilson after his hamstring straight dominated him out for the following eight weeks.
For Leicester, they’re with out first-choice midfielders Ndidi and Soumare; a blow for the guests after each began of their current 2-2 draw with Brighton and 3-1 win over West Ham.
With no wins in our final 4 league video games (P4, W0, D2, L2), we’re down in twelfth place and in determined want of a win.
We’ve been constantly inconsistent all season however we should discover type over the following seven days, with in the present day’s sport adopted by Wednesday’s cup quarter-final at dwelling to Brentford and a visit to Ipswich subsequent Saturday.
Two newly promoted groups within the league and a Brentford facet struggling away from dwelling represents an enormous likelihood to construct momentum and maintain our cup hopes alive earlier than Christmas.
Howay the lads!