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After a visit to Birmingham within the FA Cup final weekend, Newcastle United are on the street once more this Saturday with a go to to Manchester Metropolis.
It’s the beginning of a tricky and doubtlessly pivotal run of video games for the staff, with Premier League video games towards Nottingham Forest and Liverpool following our sport on the Etihad.
Although by no means simple, this may very well be the best time to face Pep Guardiola’s out of kinds Metropolis, who will likely be with no few key gamers this weekend – simply as one or two return in black and white.
Rodri gained’t be the one Man Metropolis star lacking our journey to Manchester this weekend, with two gamers struggling accidents of their midweek defeat to Actual Madrid within the UEFA Champions League.
Manuel Akanji is dealing with a prolonged spell on the sidelines after limping off late, whereas Jack Grealish was additionally pressured off with a groin drawback.
Guardiola does have power in depth, after all, however Akanji has developed into considered one of Metropolis’s most reliable defenders at a time the place the Champions have been delivery targets in Rodri’s absence.
With two new accidents and loads of psychological and bodily vitality used up as Actual Madrid scored two late targets to win on Wednesday night time, this may very well be a super time for us to face a surprisingly fragile Metropolis.
Alongside this double blow for Pep, there may be optimistic information from Tyneside on the health of Anthony Gordon, Dan Burn and Sven Botman.
As reported yesterday, Gordon is okay and match to return after overcoming a quad damage that stored him out of final weekend’s FA Cup win at Birmingham.
Burn (groin) and Botman (knee) have additionally escaped something critical, with scans outcomes exhibiting no vital accidents, giving each an out of doors likelihood of creating the squad on Saturday.
