There is little rest for Newcastle United (once again) this week, as we follow last night’s 4-1 win over Bradford in the Carabao Cup with a home clash against Arsenal in the Premier League this Sunday.
Newcastle are looking for a win and to move is out of the bottom half, currently 13th but just two points from the sixth, while Arsenal are second after three wins and a draw from their opening four games.
Mikel Arteta’s side picked up a late point last Sunday in a 1-1 draw against Man City, although that game came at a cost as summer signing Noni Madueke suffered a knee injury that will keep him out for a “few weeks” at least.
Kai Havertz remains out, along with new defender Piero Hincapie and Brazilian forward Gabriel Jesus, but they could have two key players available to start agaib in Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka.
Odegaard (shoulder) is back in training after going off in their 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest two weeks ago, while Saka has appeared from the bench in their last two games against Man City and Port Vale, who they beat 2-0 last night.
Arteta on Madueke – “It looks like he’ll be out for a few weeks. We’ll have to scan him again next week to know more”.
Arteta on Odegaard – “No, no surgery. He’s totally fine. He’s already been training, and it will be a matter of days, I think,”
Arteta on Hincapie – “Piero picked up a little groin injury. We have to look in the next week on how he is. I think that will be a short-term injury”.
Arteta on Havertz – “With Kai, we know that it will be months with him. I don’t know if it can be weeks, you never know because this is Kai and he’s a different specimen We really miss him. Hopefully, he will be back soon”.
