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Barclays Premier League

* Venue: Old Trafford
* Date: Saturday, 26 November
* Kick-off: 1500 GMT
* Coverage: Watch highlights on Match of the Day; listen on BBC Radio 5 live and local radio; text commentary on BBC Sport website and mobiles

TEAM NEWS

Manchester United are monitoring the fitness of top scorer Wayne Rooney, who missed the Champions League draw with Benfica because of a hip injury.

Midfielder Anderson has been ruled out until February with a knee injury.

Newcastle are expecting both Chieck Tiote (knee) and Leon Best (groin) to return to action.

Winger Gabriel Obertan hopes to face his former club, having overcome the injury that ruled him out of the defeat at Manchester City.
MATCH PREVIEW

With neighbours Manchester City leading the title race and progress in the Champions League not yet secured for Manchester United after Wednesday's disappointing home draw with Benfica, Newcastle travel to the North West wary of a backlash. Manager Alan Pardew said this week he feels Sir Alex Ferguson will still be smarting on the back of a negative from United's point of view, and I think he might be right.
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United are actually four points better off than this time last year and do have a well documented habit of getting stronger as the season wears on

Newcastle return to Manchester just a week after being beaten in the league for the first time this season across the city at the Etihad Stadium; and there's no tougher Premier League double bill than back-to-back trips to face City and United at the moment.

It's 39 years since the Toon last took all the points from a fixture at Old Trafford with a 2-0 win back in February of 1972. They've failed to win on any of their last 27 visits in the league.

Manchester United are averaging three goals a game at home but they haven't been as free-flowing recently, winning each of the last three league games by 1-0. Incidentally, those three clean sheets coincided with Nemanja Vidic's return to the side. Typical United though isn't it really, finding a way to get the job done and stay in the hunt even when perhaps not at their absolute best. Their points total of 29 leaves them second in the table, five points behind Manchester City, but they are actually four points better off than this time last year and United do have a well-documented habit of getting stronger as the season wears on.

Newcastle go into this game currently boasting the joint meanest defence in the Premier League, having conceded just 11 goals so far, which is the same number as both Manchester City and Liverpool. Nearly half (five) of those 11 have been conceded in the last three games after a tremendous start in which they let in only six in their first nine. Old Trafford will be some test, but Newcastle go there in better health than they have for quite some time as they look to end that 39-year drought.
MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

* Manchester United have won five of their last six home games against the Magpies, the exception being a 1-1 draw on the opening day of the 2008/09 season.
* Newcastle's last win at Old Trafford was by 2-0 in February 1972. It's 17 league matches since their last win against United, a 4-3 victory on Tyneside in September 2001.
* Sir Alex Ferguson won his most recent encounter against an Alan Pardew side, beating Charlton 2-0 at Old Trafford in February 2007.

Man Utd

* United's 29 points from their opening 12 Premier league matches is their most at this stage of the season since they accrued 31 points at the start of the 2006/07 campaign.
* The club have scored 10 league goals from set-pieces this season, more than any other team.
* Javier Hernandez has scored five league goals this season but none have been at Old Trafford.
* Goalkeeper David de Gea has made the equal-most saves in the division this season with 50, level with Swansea's Michel Vorm.

Newcastle

* Newcastle are looking to avoid back-to-back league defeats for the first time since March, and only the third time under Alan Pardew.
* The next away goal conceded by Newcastle will be the 500th they have let in during the Premier League era.
* The Magpies are eight points better off than this stage last term, when they had already lost five times.
* If selected, Steven Taylor will make his 150th league start for the Magpies, while Shola Ameobi is one goal away from 50 league strikes.
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Cheik the room said:
I can't believe we're only 8 points ahead of where we were last season?...
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we're only 12 games in.
thats quite a big difference. 2 points a game is CL level, 1 points a game is relegation level, broadly speaking, we are just over 1 compared with 1.4

Besides, we barely won a game in 2011, far too many draws.

http://www.statto.com/football/teams/newcastle-united/2010-2011/results

edit: we had 22 points after 19 games last season so only picked up 5 points on the following 7 games
 
Freddd said:
196 total appearances, 68 total goals:

Basically a 1 in 3 average, which is quite good as many of the appearances were as a sub
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Spot on, as inconsistent as Shola is I hate when people mock his goal record which is actually pretty decent.
 
Colly Ameobi said:
Spot on, as inconsistent as Shola is I hate when people mock his goal record which is actually pretty decent.
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agree <ok>

Season Club Appearances Goals
2000 - 01 Newcastle United FC 14 (8) 2
2001 - 02 Newcastle United FC 12 (13) 5
2002 - 03 Newcastle United FC 12 (27) 8
2003 - 04 Newcastle United FC 27 (14) 10
2004 - 05 Newcastle United FC 27 (18) 7
2005 - 06 Newcastle United FC 28 (6) 9
2006 - 07 Newcastle United FC 11 (5) 5
2007 - 08 Newcastle United FC 4 (4) 0
2007 - 08 Stoke City FC 3 (3) 0
2008 - 09 Newcastle United FC 14 (8) 4
2009 - 10 Newcastle United FC 12 (9) 11
2010 - 11 Newcastle United FC 26 (7) 6
2011 - 12 Newcastle United FC 6 (3) 1
TOTAL - 196 (125) 68

so 68 goals from 125 starts.

assume he gets 30 mins in his sub appearences its 68 goals in 149 games (1 in 2.18 games)

not bad
 
Sir Alex Ferguson won his most recent encounter against an Alan Pardew side, beating Charlton 2-0 at Old Trafford in February 2007.
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Either I'm reading that wrong or it is worded badly. His most recent encounter against an Alan Pardew side was a 0 - 0 draw at SJP in April.

They either mean "his most recent win against an Alan Pardew side was..." or "his last win at OT against an Alan Pardew side..."
 
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