Ipswich Town(a) please log in to view this image Saturday sees Newcastle return to Portman Road for the first time since 2017 as they face the Tractor Boys. It's a non-televised 3pm start in the Premier League and all 3,000 away section tickets were sold, with the away ticket transfer scheme in operation. Details hereNB: Portman Road is a cashless stadium including the match programme sellers on the streets outside. Team: Sean Longstaff will be available after serving a one game Carabao Cup ban but Joelinton is suspended.Fabian Schar and Sandro Tonali remain one caution away from automatic one game PL suspensions. ITFC: Town's top scorer Liam Delap serves a one game ban after collecting his fifth caution of the season against Wolves on Saturday. The striker has scored six of the 16 PL goals his side have registered so far. George Hirst misses out through injury. Kieran McKenna's side are yet to win on home ground in the Premier League this season, losing four times and drawing the other four. Their most recent top-flight success at Portman Road came April 2002 when a Town side including Titus Bramble defeated Boro 1-0 with a Darren Bent goal. Referee: Stuart Attwell - the Warwickshire-based official hasn't taken charge of a Newcastle game since the 1-0 home win over Arsenal in November 2023. Attwell's last Toon away game was the 8-0 success at Sheffield United during September 2023. VAR: John Brooks UK TV: None Overseas TV: 222 Hub Premier 2 (Singapore) 623 Now Premier League 3 (Hong Kong) Arena Sport 1 Bosnia Arena Sport 3 Croatia/Slovenia Astro Premier League 3 HD/Go (Malaysia) beIN Connect MENA/MENA HD/Turkey beIN Sports MENA English 1 HD Canal+ Live 7 HD/myCANAL (France) Canal+ Action (Czech/Slovakia) Claro TV+ (Brazil) DAZN Portugal/Eleven 3 Portugal HD DAZN Spain Diema Sport HD/Play Diema Xtra (Bulgaria) Disney+ Arg/Bra/Caribbean/Chi/SurDisney+ Hotstar (India) DStv (South Africa)eltaott.tv (Taiwan) ESPN Brazil FuboTV CanadaGo3 Extra Sports (Est/Lit/Lat)iQiyi (China) JioTV (India) Max (Costa Rica/El Salvador/Honduras) MAXtv To Go (Croatia) Migu (China) Moja TV (Bosnia) Nova Sports Premier League (Greece) Now E/Now Player (Hong Kong) ON Plus (Vietnam) Optus Sport (Australia) Peacock Premium USAPlay Sports / Play Sports 3 (Belgium) QQ Sports Live (China) Setanta Sports KazakhstanShowmax (South Africa) Síminn Sport 2 HD (Iceland) Skylink (Czech/Slovakia) Sky Sport 3/NOW (New Zealand) Sky+ (Brazil) Sooka (Malaysia) Sport 24 At Sea HD StarHub TV+ (Singapore) SuperSport Action Africa (South Africa) SuperSport MaXimo 1 (South Africa) SuperSport Variety 3 (South Africa) TNT Sports (Mexico) TOD (Saudi Arabia/Turkey) True ID (Thailand)U-NEXT (Japan) ViaPlay Fin/Ned/Nor/PolVidio (Indonesia) Vivo Play (Brazil) V Sport 1 HD (Finland) V Sport Premier League 1 HDZapping (Brazil) ZhiBo8 (China) UK Radio: Live on talkSPORT 2 Parking: Event day parking at a charge of £15 will apply at Council long stay car parks situated on Portman Road, West End Road and Princes Street. This comes into force at Noon on Saturday and runs until 6pm. TfL:Disruption updates onlinehere Rail: Disruption updates online hereLatest PL fixtures: Sat 21.12.2024: Aston Villa v Manchester City (12.30pm) TNT Brentford v Nottingham Forest (3pm) Ipswich Town v Newcastle (3pm) West Ham v Brighton & Hove Albion (3pm) Crystal Palace v Arsenal (5.30pm) Sky Sun 22.12.2024: Everton v Chelsea (2pm) Fulham v Southampton (2pm) Sky Leicester City v Wolves (2pm) Manchester United v Bournemouth (2pm) Spurs v Liverpool (4.30pm) Sky Stats: Toon @ Tractor Boys - last 10: 2016/17 lost 1-3 Murphy Ch 2009/10 won 4-0 Nolan 3, R.Taylor (Ch) 2004/05 lost 1-2 Robert (FR) 2001/02 won 1-0 Solano (PL) 2000/01 lost 0-1 (PL) 1994/95 won 2-0 Fox, Kitson (PL) 1993/94 drew 1-1 Cole (PL) 1991/92 lost 2-3 G.Peacock 2 (D2) 1990/91 lost 1-2 Quinn (D2) 1989/90 lost 1-2 McGhee (D2)
Villa (7) v City (5) Forrest (4) v Brentford (11) Man U (13) v Bournemouth (6) West Ham (14) v Brighton (9) Fulham (8) v Southampton (20) Spurs (10) v Liverpool (1) Seems the teams around us (12) will be dropping points this weekend so massive game to try and drag ourselves up the table with 3 points. Need to put a string of results together between now and the end of the year!
I can't be arsed being creating agro anymore.. let us all rejoice. I actually rolled over the other day and realised I've been behaving like a tit. Have a good Christmas everyone.
This has to be a win..no ****ty draw or defeat. We needed 3 wins this week, done the first two, have to complete the job if we are serious about europe.
At least the Longstaff stat lovers can bugger off now. We just don't have the talent or depth to keep shuffling our best players out of position and football starts with getting your best XI on the pitch, in their best positions. It's the same reason why England never win a tournament, too obsessed with "accommodating". We now seem a lot more settled, a lot happier and have the players across two elevens to make the right in game changes without upsetting the rhythm. We still need a plan b for when plan a doesn't work, but I doubt we'll ever get one. We will also never move from 4-3-3 whilst Howe is here.
Nah, I think he's going to use his best XI most weeks now and try and use the 5 subs better. Pope/Dubs; Liv/Trips, Schar/Krafth, Botman/Burn, Hall/Kelly; Tonali/Miley, Bruno/Longstaff, Joelinton/Willock; Murphy/Almiron, Isak/Osula, Gordon/Barnes.
