Newcastle United vs. Aston Villa: 26/12/24 @ 15:00 (Amazon Prime Video)

[McDog]

Just now, joeyt said:

Keep a winning team or replace Joe with Joe?

 

 

Probably make that change but it's close. Eddie will know.

[Infinitely Content]

Not sure it's close at all to be honest, Joelinton is miles ahead of Willock.

[RS]

They’ve transitioned into the realm of the nouveau big clubs better than we have unfortunately.  And European football seems to be having no impact on their league performances .

Real test for us this.

[BonesJones]

17 minutes ago, RS said:

They’ve transitioned into the realm of the nouveau big clubs better than we have unfortunately.  And European football seems to be having no impact on their league performances .

Real test for us this.

 

How are they looking injuries wise in comparison to us in our CL point of the season? I can't remember when the injury pile up happened tbh?

[janpawel]

20 minutes ago, RS said:

They’ve transitioned into the realm of the nouveau big clubs better than we have unfortunately.  And European football seems to be having no impact on their league performances .

Real test for us this.

Didn't they have an 8 or so game streak where they didn't win and lost the majority? 

 

But yeah, they're a very good team and were very good in their last game 

[janpawel]

Looking forward to this game. They have a lot of threat through the middle of the pitch, whereas we tend to attack down the flanks, should be a good one

[Chris_R]

28 minutes ago, RS said:

They’ve transitioned into the realm of the nouveau big clubs better than we have unfortunately.  And European football seems to be having no impact on their league performances .

Real test for us this.

 

We finished 4th and then 7th

 

They finished 4th and are currently 6th

 

Yeah, night and day between the 2.

[brummie]

I hate this fixture. I used to hate it when i lived in Newcastle, too. It never went well. It's just one of those places where I always think "it's going badly" with no reference whatsoever to league form. 

 

Having said that, it's going to be a draw. 2-2. Get on that straight away, that's some serious free money for you.

 

We are slowly emerging from the first rough period under Emery. We've started to recover from some injury problems and had Onana and Kamara together for the first time in ages yesterday.

 

It's not a continual upwards progression, there will be ups and there will be downs (I said that on here re you a while back, and got shot down with 'that's easy to say when you're doing well', but I still believe it, and do so now it is us coming out of a rough patch). That goes for both sides, so who knows how it will pan out.

 

 

[BonesJones]

It's an interesting one from Howe's point of view each time this game comes up imo, in terms of wanting too beat the guy that was "first" choice.

 

We can smash these, let's see both quality teams. Thinking that they won't be able to handle our midfield currently, we will dominate the game there and setup Isak with ease, leaving a CB flat on his back!

 

Going to be one of those games. Toooon! Feels ages away though with the whole Christmas thing going on.

[Mike]

6 hours ago, 54 said:

Referee: Anthony Taylor. 

Assistants: Ian Hussin, Neil Davies. 

Fourth official: Leigh Doughty. 

VAR: Graham Scott. 

Assistant VAR: Mark Scholes.

 

Cunts.

[Rod]

2 hours ago, Infinitely Content said:

Not sure it's close at all to be honest, Joelinton is miles ahead of Willock.

We won 4 nowt on Saturday and it should have been 7 or 8.  Something must have worked with the team selection.

[alexf]

Really hard to call this. Last few times at home we have smashed them, so you would assume they will learn their lesson and approach it differently, but Emery might be stubborn and let's hope that high line plays into our favour again.  

Both teams look to be hitting some form, both have strikers on it, strong midfields with good balance. We really need to protect Burn and Schar from getting isolated against Rogers and Watkins/Duran as they will get rinsed for pace. 

Likewise we need to exploit the spaces and get our 3 in behind as much as possible.