Match Day Thread V Foxy Leicester

Match day thread - NUFC v Leicester


Newcastle are in Premier League action at SJP on Saturday, when the Seagulls provide the opposition in a 5.30pm kick-off live on Sky Sports.

Tickets remain on public sale, with the visitors selling around 1,500 places. Around 8,000 home places currently unsold, the attendance is set to be our lowest in the PL at SJP since 2010 (41,053 for a midweek visit of Blackburn Rovers).

This will be the fifth meeting of the two sides in top-flight competition (all of them in the Premier League) and we're yet to claim maximum points.

Travel: There's another rail line closure north of Newcastle on Saturday, with some trains routed via Carlisle and others replaced by buses.

There's a scheduled closure of the A19 near to Stockton from 9pm on Saturday, with a short diversion in place.

Dedicated match buses run from Metro Centre (X50) and Gosforth Great Park (Q3) details

Metro: No scheduled disruptions on Saturday.

NUFC: Dwight Gayle and Florian Lejeune will miss out, but Steve Bruce confirmed on Friday that Allan Saint-Maximin and Andy Carroll were set to feature in his matchday squad.

Fabian Schar has recovered from the injury that forced him off at Liverpool, but Sean Longstaff remains available after missing the trip to Anfield.

News on comeback dates for DeAndre Yedlin and Matt Ritchie is awaited.

BHAFC: Ezequiel Schelotto, Jose Izquierdo, Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Leandro Trossard are out, but Bernado and Yves Bissouma could return.

Anthony Knockaert won't feature at Gallowgate on Saturday, having joined Fulham on loan.

Brighton are winless in the PL since a 3-0 opening day success at Watford back in August.

Beaten 0-4 at Manchester City, their three home games to date resulted in 1-1 draws with West Ham and Burnley plus a 0-2 defeat by Southampton.

Before that Vicarage Road triumph, Albion were without a league victory in nine attempts since last March; a run of form that prompted the close season departure of boss Chris Hughton.

He was replaced by Graham Potter, who was formerly in charge of Swedish side Ostersunds and Swansea City.

Latest PL result/fixtures:

Friday 20.09.2019:
Southampton 1-3 Bournemouth

Sat 21.09.2019:
Leicester City v Spurs (12.30pm) BT
Burnley v Norwich City (3pm)
Everton v Sheffield United (3pm)
Manchester City v Watford (3pm)
Newcastle v Brighton & Hove Albion (5.30pm) Sky

Sun 22.09.2019:
Crystal Palace v Wolves (2pm)
West Ham v Manchester United (2pm) Sky
Arsenal v Aston Villa (4.30pm)
Chelsea v Liverpool (4.30pm) Sky









Don’t blame me, they didn’t have their MD thread up yet and I saw Chippy’s threat to do the MD thread and I panicked...

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Just for clarity, are we playing Brighton again on Saturday because the supreme court has unanimously declared last week's game as illegal and therefore null and void?

 

No, it’s because The Brighton fans at the match didn’t like the result and wanted another game so as to get the result they wanted.

 

better that the usual old ****e.

 

I reckon we will beat them this time round.

 

I am also accepting Predictions for last weeks games in The Prediction League.

I wonder what the Supreme Court ruling on Boris Johnsons proroguing of Parliament will be.

Can you imagine being stuck in Groundhog Day where we play that ****e against Brighton every weekend.

Still at least this way I never reach my 61st birthday on Saturday.

 

Sky have forced us to play them again after last week's encounter was full of entertainment

 

Does this mean I have to go to the pub again to watch it? Oh well, there's worse things I suppose.

 

I think we will beat or at least get a result against the highly overrated Leicester side

 

There's a strong chance that at least one team will get at least a point.

 

If only this praise was in English!!!

 

eh I said us not them

 

This will be a hard fought 0-4 or a 4-0 win to the Toon Joe Linton 2 Wayne Fereday 1 Tommy Gaynor 1

 

I honestly couldn’t remember Tommy Gaynor. Had. To google him.

Figure you could be right this week.

 

Perez hat-trick

 

just watched the Sheffield united game vs Liverpool and im now convinced having watched every team including Watford that we are the worst team in the league ..

20th is where we will finish

 

Agreed

It's all our fans fault aswell

 

that demonstrates a misunderstanding of the points I make about fans …

 

Watford look absolutely atrocious. I think they're probably worse than us.

Leicester are very good side with an ambitious manager. We're playing at home, one of the absolute worst atmospheres in all of English football right now, neither the players nor manager feel comfortable playing there and we play a negative style of football. I don't believe the fans are to blame for this, but it is a fact and contributes to our league position.

We will continue to play negative until the club is sold in my opinion, I could not imagine playing for Newcastle United, I bet it's ****ing miserable.

 

ive seen Watford play well in one game im yet to see us do that but theres a case for either being the worst so far without doubt . I can't see us staying up or a takeover happening tbh