Game On! Newcastle v Manchester City

One final time!
Well, sadly, our final home game of the season is upon us and we now only have one week of domestic football left to look forward to.

What’s that? Still looking forward to games in early May? A rare treat for United fans!

You see while all the talk will be on Manchester City and whether or not they put one hand on the title by beating us at St James’ Park, the fact remains that we have our own agenda to look after. A win today will see us jump into fourth place at the very least thanks to Arsenal and Norwich drawing 3-3 yesterday, in fact a win could even see us jump into third place depending on how Tottenham get on against struggling Aston Villa. It’s madness really!

It’s going to be tough though. Manchester City have the players to hurt anyone when they are on form so we will have to be wary of them. However that works the other way also as Roberto Mancini will have to task his players to keep an eye on one or two of our own crown jewels if he wants to take three points away from St James’ Park.

I just hope that Nigel de Jong isn’t tasked with looking after our players. Again!

For more background on the match, news of any injury problems, form guides and some fun facts you can peruse my match preview by clicking the blue text at your leisure.

The game is being broadcast live on Sky Sports 1 and via a whole host of overseas broadcasters so streams shouldn’t be too hard to come by. Having said that, if you manage to find a particularly decent one and wish to share it with your fellow NUFC fans then you can do so by leaving a link to it in the ‘comments’ section below.

That just about wraps things up for this. It’s our final home game of the season and I’m sure the players will want to send the full house home happy having secured three points and setting up a rather tense and interesting final day clash with Everton. However to do that we simply must win today.

Howay the lads!

Newcastle: Krul; Perch, Williamson, Coloccini, Santon; Tiote, Gutierrez; Ben Arfa, Cabaye, Ba; Cisse

Subs: Elliot, Ferguson, R Taylor, Gosling, Marveaux, Obertan, Shola Ameobi

Man City: Hart, Zabaleta, Clichy, Kompany (c), Lescott, Barry, Yaya, Nasri, Silva, Aguero, Tevez

Subs: Pantilimon, Richards, Kolarov, De Jong, Milner, Balotelli, Dzeko

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309 thoughts on “Game On! Newcastle v Manchester City

  1. Good play lads I just see our passing a little sloppy. Really hope we dont end up ruing missed chances 👿

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  2. Why does Webb always try to be the star of the show ,he always gets his cards out to quickly and fecks up the games flow.

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  3. 15 minutes of deep brething exercises required….dirty phone call time 😆

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  4. Anyone think Micah Richards would consider joining us? Zabaleta is looking like Mancinis preference for big games. Him at Right back with Ben Arfa would be unreal 😯

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  5. Been an excellent half for Newcastle…

    Every player has been superb. Have to say though, I think Ba’s desperation to score has made him a tad too selfish. The sooner he scores the better.

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  6. must say jonas has been incredible so far..fantastic scrambling by the whole team! cisse and ba are fighting but just need to show their quality a little more. we have made inroads, and need to get a goal as its likely city will at some stage

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  7. Well done lads ,little pep talk from Pards now and keep up the concentration levels 2nd half and try and sneak a goal at the death that will do me. 😀

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  8. Three very soft yellow cards there. Hope they don’t cost us.

    A very good performance though. Just need to get the ball moved quicker between Cisse and Ba.

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  9. Cities wide back men are not pushing too far forward now.. good work from Jonas & benny going forward.. got to keep clichy & zabaletta on the retreat..

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  10. JJ-Aye that would be my only criticism as well…Ba needs to go for the pass more often..still, strikers will be strikers

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  11. Game seems very stretched. Can only suit spurs. Villa need to calm it down and get in to half time

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  12. Just been on the RedCAFE Manc forum ,strange to see Manure fans cheering us on like . Calling Ba all sorts of names for missing though 👿

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  13. Lot of moaning from Citeh players ,frustrating em now .Crowd need to ramp it up again.

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  14. Citeh defend like dogs ,just cant get through ,must not let them score as we’ll never get one back.

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  15. OUT OF NOWHERE ,we are ****** now for sure ,its too late and now they will park the bus .

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  16. Cisse and Ba’s touches in the ball have been like they are playing with one leg For God sake.

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