Newcastle seek to continue their unbeaten start in a tricky Premier League test against Bournemouth.
Victory can put Newcastle top for a few hours at minimum, whilst Bournemouth can climb as high as fifth with a win if Ipswich and Liverpool draw on Friday evening.
Team News
Newcastle have no fresh injury concerns to report following their 2-0 win at Tottenham last weekend.
Tino Livramento (calf) could feature if he passes a late fitness check, but William Osula (foot), Dan Burn (ankle) and Joelinton (groin) remain absent.
New signing, Matias Fernandez-Pardo could be in contention for his debut.
Bournemouth too have no fresh injury concerns to report following their 1-1 draw against Everton.
Julian Araujo (thigh), Eli Junior Kroupi (foot), Veljko Milosavljevic (knee) and Amine Adli (calf) are ruled out.
When is Kick-Off?
Newcastle host Bournemouth at St James’ Park on Saturday 5 September at 12:30pm BST, live on TNT Sports 1 in the UK.
Stat Attack
- Newcastle are winless in their last eight league meetings against Bournemouth (D5, L3).
- Bournemouth have lost just two of their last eight league visits to Newcastle (W4, D2, L2).
- Two of Newcastle’s four league goals this season have been scored by Anthony Elanga.
- Marcus Tavernier and Alex Scott have both scored from their only shots on target in Bournemouth’s opening two league games of the season.
Prediction
With that first league win of the Matthias Jaissle era now under their belt after a clinical performance at Tottenham, Newcastle now have a chance to kick on and end their recent rut against Bournemouth if can again defend well and continue to take their chances.
Bournemouth meanwhile should of beaten Everton but they just lacked the sharp end product needed to kick on once in front and was punished late on – which was a worrying theme in their first two games this season, so this is an ideal chance to change that given their form at St James’ Park.
My instinct is saying that this will be a 1-1 draw but if there is a winner then I just feel that it will be Newcastle on current momentum.
Prediction: Newcastle 1-1 Bournemouth
Result: Newcastle 2-2 Bournemouth
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