Game On! Swansea v Newcastle - Santon starts at left-back!

It's Game On again right now as the Easter fixture schedule springs into action with Newcastle travelling to the depths of South Wales to take on Swansea City.

Newcastle go looking or a fourth win on the spin, something not achieved for a good few years, but it won't be easy against a team who have capacity to cause damage and who will be looking to get back to winning ways after two defeats in a row.

It's an excellent game in prospect, with much being made of Swansea's slick possession game coming up against our pacey and creative attack. We can win, but we'll need to be on top of our game right from the word go to get something from a ground which has proved fruitless for Premier League "big guns" like Manchester City and Arsenal.

Of course something that may tip the balance in our favour is the fact that we have something to play for still, with Europe on the agenda for Alan Pardew and Co. Swansea are safe and have little to play for other than pride, so maybe that is something that can work in our favour? Maybe not? Who knows? It won't be long before we find out though...

Team news will be featured below and will be updated as soon as is humanly possible. For a change I'm actually off today so Big Dave and Jobey and the rest can put their feet up and let the master take the reins once more.

For more background, build up, analysis, stats and facts ahead of the match you need look no further than our very own match preview. You might have missed it earlier as I posted another article about ten minutes later so if you haven't had a read make sure you do so. Mind if that's not enough then make sure you have a peek at NUFC_stats' marvellous "Stat Attack".

And that just about wraps it up...

Howay the lads!

Swansea: Michel Vorm, Angel Rangel, Steven Caulker, Ashley Williams (capt), Neil Taylor, Leon Britton, Joe Allen, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Nathan Dyer, Wayne Routledge, Luke Moore.

Subs: Gerhard Tremmel, Alan Tate, Garry Monk, Josh McEachran, Mark Gower, Scott Sinclair, Danny Graham.

Newcastle: Tim Krul, Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, James Perch, Davide Santon, Yohan Cabaye, Cheik Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez, Hatem Ben Arfa, Demba Ba, Papiss Cisse.

Subs: Rob Elliot, James Tavernier, Shane Ferguson, Ryan Taylor, Mehdi Abeid, Dan Gosling, Shola Ameobi.