Pope, Barnes and Isak all begin – Confirmed line-ups for West Ham vs Newcastle

Pope, Barnes and Isak all begin – Confirmed line-ups for West Ham vs Newcastle

The group sheets are in on the London Stadium, the place Newcastle United tackle West Ham in tonight’s 8pm kick-off.

An enormous sport to construct momentum forward of Sunday’s last and very important for our European push after outcomes over the weekend noticed us drop all the way down to ninth.

Right here is the facet Eddie Howe has gone with towards the Hammers

Newcastle XI (4-3-3): Pope – Trippier, Schar, Burn, Livramento – Bruno, Tonali, Joelitnon – Murphy, Isak, Barnes.

Subs: Dubravka, Targett, Willock, Krafth, Wilson, Neave, Longstaff, Osula, Miley

West Ham XI (5-3-2): Areola – Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Kilman, Cresswell, Scarles –  Alvarez, Ward-Prowse, Soucek – Bowen, Kudus.

Howe has opted for Harvey Barnes on the left wing, with Tino Livramento at left-back, Nick Pope again in purpose and Joelinton in midfield alongside Sandro Tonali and Bruno Guimaraes.

This sees Lewis Miley and Joe Willock on the bench, together with 17-year-old striker Sean Neave after the native lad has impressed for the Underneath-21s.

Anthony Gordon misses out as he serves the primary of a three-match ban, whereas Lewis Corridor (ankle) and Sven Botman (knee) are absent as they put together to endure surgical procedure.

Talking to the media in his pre-match press convention on Friday, Howe urged the gamers to “imagine in ourselves” and “come collectively” over the approaching weeks to make this a particular season; within the league and cup.

“A optimistic has to come back from this for us to have any probability of being profitable within the subsequent few weeks,” Howe stated. “There is no such thing as a query of us feeling sorry for ourselves.”

“We imagine in ourselves and we imagine within the group. We imagine in how we play and the way we work. I imagine within the characters of the gamers. I imagine we’ve bought a very particular group and a particular group of individuals. However we have to come collectively.

“After the Brighton sport, that was a very troublesome feeling for 48 hours. However there may be at all times a brand new day and a brand new manner of trying on the similar scenario. For me, I have a look at it as, ‘Can I discover solutions to the issues? Then, can we struggle again even stronger?’”

Let’s hope the lads can reply to current setbacks – on and off the pitch – and ship us again as much as sixth tonight. Howay the lads!