Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur Official Build Up / Match Day Thread

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has named an unchanged side for Saturday's Premier League away game at Tottenham Hotspur (12.45pm kick-off).

The Magpies go into the fixture on the back of successive victories - first away at Aston Villa, before last weekend's dramatic 3-2 home win over Chelsea.

And so the boss has unsurprisingly kept faith with the same group of players who have grabbed six points over the last fortnight.

It means United will once again line-up in a 4-2-3-1 formation, with Senegalese front man Papiss Cisse playing the lone striking role.

He will be supported by the attack-minded trio of Yoan Gouffran, Moussa Sissoko and Jonas Gutierrez, with James Perch and Yohan Cabaye anchoring the visitors' midfield at White Hart Lane.
And a back-four of Mathieu Debuchy, Steven Taylor, captain Fabricio Coloccini and Davide Santon will be protecting goalkeeper Tim Krul.

On the substitutes' bench there is a place for Cheick Tiote, who returns after missing five games to represent Ivory Coast at the Africa Cup of Nations, and the midfielder joins French trio Sylvain Marveaux, Gabriel Obertan and Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Dutchman Vurnon Anita, goalkeeper Steve Harper and long-serving striker Shola Ameobi among the replacements.

 

NUFC Krul, Debuchy, S Taylor, Coloccini, Santon, Cabaye, Perch, Gutierez, Sissoko, Marveaux, Cisse.

 

Newcastle United (4-2-3-1): Tim Krul; Mathieu Debuchy, Steven Taylor, Fabricio Coloccini (c), Davide Santon; James Perch, Yohan Cabaye; Yoan Gouffran, Moussa Sissoko, Jonas Gutierrez; Papiss Cisse
Substitutes: Steve Harper, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Vurnon Anita, Cheick Tiote, Sylvain Marveaux, Gabriel Obertan, Shola Ameobi

Referee: Phil Dowd (Staffordshire)

 

Gouffan not starting from Lee Ryder

 

Nice to have a bench like that to choose from.

 

wtf is going on

 

I agree I think it's the best bemch we have ever had.

 

Ginola on Sky

 

Tottenham Hotspur (4-2-3-1): Hugo Lloris; Kyle Walker, Michael Dawson (c), Steven Caulker, Kyle Naughton; Scott Parker, Mousa Dembele; Aaron Lennon, Lewis Holtby, Gareth Bale; Clint Dempsey

Subs : Brad Friedel, Benoit Assou-Ekotto, William Gallas, Jan Vertonghen, Jake Livermore, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Emmanuel Adebayor

 

Just for clarification, Marveaux starts on the bench with Gouffran starting

 

Any more news on Le Gouf? NUFC.co.uk still saying he's in the staring eleven. As are BBC & Sky

 

Aha, cheers DT

 

He's now tweeted that he made a mistake with the starting lineup. Gouffran starts, Marv on bench.

 

Cheers Tasty

 

Anyone else hear Pardew's gaffe on Sky just now?

"Chiecky come black" (he meant back)

Hope we don't have another Insomnia scenario.

 

It's gonna be a long 90 minutes.

 

Sigh

 

Wonder if Perch was having a quick nap in the wall...

 

Not a great start from Perch...

 

A long afternoon ahead, did we not learn from last year ffs