Newcastle v Man City team news: Hall + Livramento begins

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Can Erling Haaland ending his goalless streak against Newcastle United tonight?

The Norwegian striker has made five league and cup appearances without scoring against tonight’s opponents, with his last goal coming three years ago.

But in general, City have enjoyed their meetings with Newcastle: only one defeat in 15 meetings with the Magpies, and that too came in the EFL Cup.

Kick-off for tonight’s match is at 17:30 GMT.

TEAM NEWS

Haaland was part of City’s unchanged starting XI tonight.

That means another bench Tijjani Reijndersas Rayan Cherki continued running to the side.

Eddie Howe changed three quarters of his defense for tonight’s game.

Two of the changes were implemented as Dan Burns suspended and Kieran Trippier suddenly sidelined with a minor hamstring injury.

Sven Botman down to the bench, meanwhile, with Fabian Schar replace it.

Also returning to play for the first time after injury was the wing-back Tino Livramento And Lewis Hall.

Anthony Gordon failed to recover in time and was again absent from the squad.

LINE-UP

Newcastle United XI: Pope, Livramento, Schar, Thiaw, Hall, Tonali, Guimaraes, Joelinton, Murphy, Woltemade, Barnes.

Subs: Ramsdale, Ruddy, Botman, A Murphy, Ramsey, Willock, Miley, Elanga, Neave.

Manchester City XI: Donnarumma, O’Reilly, Dias, Gvardiol, Nunes, Silva, Gonzalez, Foden, Cherki, Haaland, Doku.

Subs: Trafford, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Ait-Nouri, Savio, Khusanov, Bobb.

LIVE GAME WEEK PAGE!

New to Fantasy Football Scout is the Live Gameweek page, which you can view in the side menu.

Here you can follow the score, see the defensive contribution (DC) points coming in, see who the leading player is for xG and much more as the game progresses, as seen below:

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