Game On! Newcastle v Manchester City
Game On at SJP Good day everyone, and welcome to this 'Game On' article which will take us through our meeting with Manchester City this afternoon.
Generally speaking we give it good go against top teams at St James' Park although we don't always get the results in our favour. However Manchester City are one of those sides we just never seem to give a good account of ourselves against.
Perhaps it's just me that thinks that but our results against them have been poor, especially since they became a real force in the Premier League. As documented in the match preview, our last win against the boys from the blue half of Manchester came over eight years ago and the way they are playing at the moment unfortunately means that I can't see that statistic changing come full-time today.
The key for me is giving it a real good go. Alan Pardew has a tendency to sit back against the stronger sides and see how things go, but against City at the moment I don't think we'll get time to do that so we need to be at them from the word go. Give it our all for 90 minutes and you just never know...
You can see a full preview ahead of the match by reading the previously linked preview. It features a history of the fixture, some stats and facts along with early injury news for both sides. For actual team news you'll need to look at the bottom of this article about an hour before kick-off and you'll see it in full.
The game is being shown here in the UK and is also being broadcast by a plethora of overseas channels so hopefully there won't be a lack of streams like last weekend. If you do find a decent stream then please share it by leaving a link in the 'comments' section below.
That's my rambling over with and now it's up to those at St James' Park to do the talking. The big question is will those in black and white be leaving us purring with positives or will we be pondering another poor performance?
Howay the lads!
Newcastle:Krul; Santon, S.Taylor, Williamson, Yanga-Mbiwa; Anita, Tiote (c), Cabaye; Sissoko, Remy, Gouffran
Subs: Elliot, Haidara, Gosling, Marveaux, Sammy Ameobi, Ben Arfa, Cisse
Manchester City:Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany (C), Demichelis, Kolarov, Nasri, Fernandinho, Yaya Toure, Silva, Negredo, Dzeko
Subs:Pantilimon, Richards, Lescott, Clichy, Garcia, Milner, Navas
