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
This team is better than the entertainers we are just pure class , my mind is now made up Cabaye is the best signing we made last summer .
Axel(Quote)
-125 **** 😯
That’s really surprising..doesn’t ever feel like we really missed him either… 🙄
Newkie(Quote)
Anyone got a link? Mine has just gone dead, fantastic display from us so far/ The passing is flowing between everyone very nicely
Zoë Vicarage(Quote)
Cisse broke some records..
first to score six in a row for newcastle:-)
DanishToon(Quote)
Zoe@134 😉
richietoon(Quote)
Good link: http://tykestv.eu/channel2.php#schedule
kirkyman(Quote)
Seem to be playing out from the back rather than goal kick. Deliberate choice obviously and I personally prefer it. Just wonder if Krul isn’t 100% though?
griff(Quote)
should have headed it
CC(Quote)
oh Ba close there son
Big Dave(Quote)
Come on BA!!! he usually scores on a chance like that
DanishToon(Quote)
cant stand that knob shawcross 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
couldve headed it… or went down when he was shoved in the back
M(Quote)
Hoilett at it again
Dubtoon(Quote)
he’s onside man, u tool
M(Quote)
That was onside. Never mind though eh 🙄
toonsy(Quote)
****
richietoon(Quote)
and again! f me
M(Quote)
**** offside 👿
kimtoon(Quote)
Linos guessed twice
CC(Quote)
English referees are so ****.
JJ(Quote)
what the f*cking hell is this linesman playing at? 👿
Moreno(Quote)
Two bad offside decision in a minute and goal disallowed 👿 👿 👿
Dubtoon(Quote)
And Cisse was level there also 🙄
toonsy(Quote)
bastads
Big Dave(Quote)
No onside 😯 **** we should be Chelski 😉
kimtoon(Quote)
Demba looking sharper 2nd half
M(Quote)
Cabaye must have been such a frustrated footballer at the start of this season – he seems to be lovely that advanced role and is bloody good at it.
Sunday rags will have someone buying Cisse and Cabaye for £100m in the summer 😆
Come on Ba son, find the net!!!!
Sharpy17(Quote)
Really wish Demba would get a goal…..he deserves one!
kirkyman(Quote)
Should be a corner 👿
kimtoon(Quote)
So thats two corners and a goal we havent been given in 5 minutes….
Dubtoon(Quote)
beauty
CC(Quote)
Hey–a question for you players and weekend warriors: When Cameron Jerome was getting ready to come on, he put something on his shirt–some kind of cream or ointment or something, maybe to help his breathing. Can anybody tell me what that was?
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
pure fucking silk Mr Cabaye
M(Quote)
😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯
Dubtoon(Quote)
Isn’t this just brilliant to watch!!!
JJ(Quote)
Gooooaaalllll cabaye
richietoon(Quote)
Cabaye 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
Cabaye. CLASS
toonsy(Quote)
Cabaye. What a player.
Newkie(Quote)
Common pure class finishh
HBA39(Quote)
Cabaye for a hat-trick 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
FSOTC…wicks vapour rub I’d guess
richietoon(Quote)
Fucking Cabaye, man. Superb.
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
FSOTC – There’s loads of stuff you can put on your shirt. Olbas Oil is a goodun.
toonsy(Quote)
So I’m guessing Cabaye might sneak man of the match 😉
If Cisse’s goal wasn’t disallowed it would have been four braces in four games… (Eight goals in four).
JJ(Quote)
Jerome a bit out of his depth taking on the curly one
CC(Quote)
i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, from Cabaye started playing more forward he is fuking brilliant and looks happier too
Big Dave(Quote)
Well done Cabaye but I missed it link keeps Freezing 👿
kimtoon(Quote)
Now come on, get timmy a fourth clean sheet in a row 😈
Dubtoon(Quote)
Ben Arfa has a silky touch… Cisse isn’t far behind.
JJ(Quote)
Yeah, Richie, kind of what I was thinking. Anybody ever use that for their Sunday pub team? Does it work well?
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
One more for my 4.0
kimtoon(Quote)
God. We look fooking special today here like.
MrT76(Quote)
Ba-Cisse-HBA-Cabaye
It’s almost impossible for teams to control all four of them. We have so many game changing players.
SolanosTrumpet(Quote)
perch on to shore the MF up 😕
Big Dave(Quote)
get in Perch!
M(Quote)
http://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Potters&action=display&thread=190808&page=10
DanishToon(Quote)
Gwan Perch! Nothing gets past the Mansfield Zanetti 😉
toonsy(Quote)
Shame he couldn’t get a hatty, but better safe than sorry!
Newkie(Quote)
Big dave. Clears the way for a mazy guti run through the middle for the fourth, more licence to go forward now 😉
Dubtoon(Quote)
Percinho with a flying block 5 second after coming on. Great game from everyOne so far
Joe(Quote)
Fstoc…..nah, Toonsy got arrested last time he tried to rub it on a sunday pub team 😉 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Tiote’s passing has been a bit off today, tho it does look like he’s trying harder balls.
Newkie(Quote)
We arent any good, they are just ****..
Stoke supporters really getting low 😥
👿 😎
DanishToon(Quote)
Danish…they seem a tad upset 😆
richietoon(Quote)
N’er heard of that one Toonsy. Maybe not available in the states?
Tell you what, I really want to see Ba get one here and I really want to see Best come on for Cisse too. I’d like to see him get back in the mix because he combined so very well with Ba.
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
Opta Sports @OptaJoe
5 – Yohan Cabaye has either scored (one) or assisted (four) five goals in Newcastle’s last three league games. Streak.
ron(Quote)
shouldve gone to Papiss there Perchy
M(Quote)
Ahh Colo 😥
Newkie(Quote)
C’mon Ba get a goal .
kimtoon(Quote)
Our Cb and DM taking them apart now 🙂
Dubtoon(Quote)
great interception by papiss there
ron(Quote)
Every player is actually helping ba to score. 😯
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
*perchy
ron(Quote)
Shola time!
M(Quote)