Three points is a must if Newcastle are to keep up any lingering hopes of stealing a place in the Champions League for next season, but three points would also help us on our way to guaranteeing European football for next season via the Europa League.
It’s not going to be easy and patience may be needed today as we set about breaking down a Stoke side who will look to nullify our own threat first and foremost before presenting any threat of their own. However they are always a danger at set pieces and one lapse in concentration at the back may be enough to have us chasing the game and looking for a way back into it.
Anyway, no more waffle is needed really. We know what is needed and, by listening to some of the players during the week, so do they. All we can do is wait and see how it pans out.
However, if you are a bit more information, maybe some stats or injury news then you could always have a look at our Stat Attack or Match Preview if you haven’t already done so. Both are worth a read but, as always, the Stat Attack brings an insight into the game that goes far deeper than many other sites out there.
That wraps it up really. Team news is featured below and will be updated as and when the full teamsheet becomes available. Also the game is not on TV here in the UK so if anybody just happens to stumble across a stream that looks useful the please feel free to share the link with your fellow NUFC fans.
Howay the lads!
Newcastle: Tim, Krul, Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini, Davide Santon, Yohan Cabaye, Cheik Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez, Hatem Ben Arfa, Papiss Cisse, Demba Ba
Subs: Rob Elliot, Shane Ferguson, James Perch, Dan Gosling, Ryan Taylor, Leon Best, Shola Ameobi
Stoke: Asmir Begovic, Andy Wilkinson, Robert Huth, Ryan Shawcross, Marc Wilson, Ryan Shotton, Wilson Palacios, Glenn Whelan, Matthew Etherington, Peter Crouch, Jonathan Walters
Subs: Thomas Sorenson, Matthew Upson, Deam Whitehead, Jermaine Penant, Cameron Jerome, Kenwyne Jones, Ricardo Fuller
We bloody deserve Champions League. We play beautiful stuff
Newkie(Quote)
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Cisse you beauty
kimtoon(Quote)
come on lads maybe this is the thumping we are due to hand out
Big Dave(Quote)
Wow wow wow, just an incredible goal, great finish Cisse, great ball Cabaye… That was Barcelona stuff!!!
Tore them to pieces… Come on lads let go on to make it 6-0
JJ(Quote)
Incredible pass by cabaye 😯 😯 😯 😯
😆
Dubtoon(Quote)
Papiss 😉
Great ball by Cabaye. Class act 😉
toonsy(Quote)
fantastic 2-0
geordie deb(Quote)
even alan smith is scroing 😆
Dubtoon(Quote)
fk me smith has scored for the dons 😯
hitman(Quote)
This must be the hoofball the likes of Chuck think we play?
toonsy(Quote)
Alan smith just scored! 😆
Newkie(Quote)
Smith just scored for MK DONS 😯
kimtoon(Quote)
Smudge scored! Get in son
Moreno(Quote)
We are totally in control!!!
This team is amazing, i haven’t seen Newcastle play like that in years!!
Lets crush em 5-0
DanishToon(Quote)
A goal for Papiss Cisse would mean that he’d scored in six successive PL games – the first player to achieve that feat this season (Wayne Rooney, Rafael Van der Vaart and Robin Persie all got to five before drawing a blank).
WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
72% possession for us. Has to be worth an extra point no? 😉
toonsy(Quote)
Artnoon from Devon, lads and lasses. As I’m expected to provide punditry on Ian Wright’s show later, can I just open with the kind of incisive, intelligent and considered observation we expect on such shows?
****, we are good, aren’t we?
Whumpie(Quote)
Jonas is the master at winning a FK
M(Quote)
Right we need Ba to get on the sheet
Big Dave(Quote)
Benny is just pure class with his direct pass between players
HBA39(Quote)
Stoke play such **** football. If any team deserved to get relegated…
JJ(Quote)
Colo on the left wing, haha!
M(Quote)
We’re absolutely pissing this in pretty much every department
toonsy(Quote)
Tiote has tried to be a bit too fancy with his passing… He’s been out for a while so understandable. That’s four he has passed to the oppostion though…
JJ(Quote)
pulis looks like a fuking charva knobheed
Big Dave(Quote)
Hatem is having fun here
M(Quote)
Tiote misplacing a few passes trying to more ambitious like benny and cabs 🙂
Dubtoon(Quote)
JJ yeah his passing is a wee tad off
Big Dave(Quote)
“We’re absolutely pissing this in pretty much every department”
Cheers, Toonsy – I may use that! 😆
Whumpie(Quote)
big dave
Hes rivalled in the charva stakes only by Arty Ziff in the mackems dugout… 😉
CC(Quote)
I would like two more before half time 😆
Greedy??
JJ(Quote)
Dave agree but I’d substitute “looks like” with “is” 😉
richietoon(Quote)
We need a penalty for ba to score. 😳
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
I have always thought Simmo was a decent player but I think he is getting better
Big Dave(Quote)
Ridiculous control by hba on that crossfield pass. Toonsy, you need to get a drooling icon for next season 😉
Dubtoon(Quote)
Santon is really very very good today. Winning all his duals
HBA39(Quote)
oh close there for Ba
Big Dave(Quote)
Always gonna pull Benny down ,they can’t handle him 😈
kimtoon(Quote)
Do need to be careful though, they can make goals out of nothing-ala set pieces.
Come on lads, lets bury em
Newkie(Quote)
I think Demba’s going to get on the sheet today. Just a gut feel. Possibly just optimism. Working his bits off as usual.
Whumpie(Quote)
Toonsy I wonder if Chuck even watches our games 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave – Doubt it
toonsy(Quote)
Good effort
CC(Quote)
Nice try by Santon
kimtoon(Quote)
@Dubtoon…ridiculous is the word when it comes to Ben Arfa. I haven’t seen this kind of confidence and pomp since the first Keegan era
Joe(Quote)
Santon didn’t really know what to do there
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave…makes no odds if you watch something if you don’t have the mental capacity to absorb and understand what you’re seeing 😉
richietoon(Quote)
Benny is getting 3 players on him now
Big Dave(Quote)
Tiote down ,c’mon ref ffs
kimtoon(Quote)
Tiote has only played five games since January 😯
toonsy(Quote)
Richie are you saying he is clueless 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
we must have been practising our passing a lot more lately 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
good link someone mine is broken
HBA39(Quote)
Dave….yep
Toonsy tbf we’ve only played 8 since he got back from the ACoN
richietoon(Quote)
Id love us to sign shotton he looks class 😆
CC(Quote)
Pulis is going mental. And he moves a bit like Norman Wisdom when he gets angry. 😆
Whumpie(Quote)
he wants to stay in those sewers in the states,let him drink his amstel doon there 👿
icedog(Quote)
The Premier League table looks rather nice 😉
toonsy(Quote)
hba….. http://www.nutjob.eu/
richietoon(Quote)
Dave,
Simmo is extremely sound defensively. It’s just when he has the ball at his feet he doesn’t seem comfortable. But he is a good player and I hope we keep him.
JJ(Quote)
I WOULDN’T SWAP CROUCHY FOR ANYBODY 😳
toonsy(Quote)
Whumpie @131 😆 That is so true.
kimtoon(Quote)
Toonsy…tbf I wouldn’t give anyone for crouch either 😆
richietoon(Quote)
@136 😆 😳
Dubtoon(Quote)
Cisse’s goal again if anyone wants to have a look
http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/pappis-cisse-newcastle-2-0-v-stoke/
toonsy(Quote)
Well we need another 2 for my 4.0 prediction ,got to have Ba on the score sheet . He is working his socks off and deserves a goal ,really hope he can get one ….or two 😀
kimtoon(Quote)
The passing and the run on the 2nd goal was absolutely superb. Excellent–Cabaye has been an absolute revelation now that he’s been moved up further.
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
RICHIE are you sure,theres a little spanish fellow that might change your mind 😉 😀
icedog(Quote)
Hopefully we continue in the same vein and not do the same as we did against wolves
CC(Quote)
Jeff just said cisse was first newcastle player to score in 6 consecutive games in pl. Shearer scored in 7 in a row no? Maybe that was at Bburn?
Dubtoon(Quote)
Toonsy @ 136 thats because no other ***** would take him 😆 did you get my mail ❓
Big Dave(Quote)
I notice how the front 4 constantly interchanges position, e.g: Cabaye played Left, central and right midfield. Brilliant idea as Stoke’s defence just don’t know who to mark. Notice how central Ba is playing today
Toon@Jer(Quote)
Ba’s work rate is incredible, but just doesn’t seem to be happening for him again today. Fingers crossed he gets a goal.
Off topic – I love american commentary.
David(Quote)
TOONSY that was quick,aye kids keep you on your toes like 😉
icedog(Quote)
Ice….I’m sure……probably
richietoon(Quote)