The workforce sheets are in at St James’ Park, the place Eddie Howe’s Mags tackle Marco Silva’s Fulham in at this time’s 3pm kick-off.
Newcastle need to make it 11 wins in our final 12 and bounce again from our final residence recreation; a disappointing 4-1 defeat to Bournemouth a fortnight in the past.
Fulham come into the sport on the again of a 1-0 defeat to Man Utd, however they’ve been stable on the street this season, shedding simply considered one of their final seven away video games
Eddie Howe has gone with the identical 11 that began at Southampton final Saturday, maintaining religion within the likes of Martin Dubravka and Fabian Schar.
Newcastle XI: Dubravka – Livramento, Schar, Burn, Corridor – Bruno, Tonali, Joelinton – Murphy, Isak, Gordon.
Subs: Pope, Trippier, Osula, Kelly, Longstaff, Willock, Miley, Krafth, Botman.
The unchanged XI means each Sven Botman and Nick Pope stay on the bench, together with Will Osula and Kieran Trippier.
Callum Wilson and Harvey Barnes stay out, though it’s hoped Wilson might return for subsequent week’s Carabao Cup semi-final at residence to Arsenal.
Chatting with the media yesterday, Howe mentioned our essential run of upcoming video games and the powerful take a look at Fulham will pose.
On very important run of video games – “The subsequent group of video games will likely be essential for us. Each end result takes on enormous significance. We now have been on a run of outcomes and doing properly, so we have to carry that on.”
On Fulham take a look at – “If you play Fulham, you’ll be able to see their qualities, they’re very courageous with each facet, with and with out the ball. They’ve added some gamers which have made their workforce very aggressive, they have been very spectacular towards us. We all know this will likely be a troublesome recreation and we’ll by no means underestimate Fulham.”
Howay the lads!