Confirmed Newcastle and Leicester groups – Howe makes THREE adjustments

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!