The team sheets are in at St James’ Park, where Newcastle United take on Nottingham Forest in today’s 2pm kick off.
Win and we’ll go back above Chelsea, Bournemouth and Aston Villa, also moving three points behind Forest. But lose and the Reds will be nine clear.
Here’s the side Eddie Howe has gone with, featuring a few changes from our 4-0 defeat at Man City last Saturday.
Newcastle XI: Pope – Livramento, Schar, Burn, Hall – Miley, Bruno, Willock – Murphy, Isak, Gordon.
Subs: Dubravka, Wilson, Tonali, Barnes, Krafth, Targett, Osula, Longstaff, Trippier.
Nick Pope, Tino Livramento and Lewis Miley have come into the side, with Martin Dubravka, Kieran Trippier and Sandro Tonali on the bench, with the latter managing muscle tightness.
As expected, Joelinton misses out along with Sven Botman, while former Mags Elliot Anderson, Chris Wood and Matz Sels all start for Forest.
Forest XI: Sels, Williams, Milenkovic, Murillo, Aina, Anderson, Dominguez, Elanga, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Wood.
Speaking to the media on Friday, Howe discussed our determination to bounce back from last weekend’s 4-0 defeat and the challenge Forest will pose.
”The attitude and hunger is there to put the last performance to bed and put it right. We have very strong characters behind the team.
“A very strong attitude to represent the club in the right way and I think that is at our heart and is one of our biggest strengths.
”Then there is really strong leadership within the player group, they know the expectations that they need to reach. We didn’t do that as a group last week, but there is really strong will to come back and fight back.”
“Nottingham Forest have been excellent on the road this year; they have a style and a system that is very hard to play against. For us, I want to see a much more vibrant performance, I want to see us attack, be very much ourselves, see our attacking players expressing themselves. Hopefully, returning to our very best.”
Howay the lads!
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