Newcastle United vs Aston Villa pre-match thread

[eamonn]

Tammy and Bailey back in the squad would be great. Both will come on if they are.

Pretty sure we'd have needed to register him by 12pm today for him to be eligible.

Saturday is a working day in Newcastle #TynesideToughened*

*Manufactures of bullet-proof glass and the double glazed panes on your National Express coach to Victoria

[Hookeysmith]

                          Martinez

Cash          Konsa             Pau                      Digne

                    Onana         Tielemanns

Guessand                    Buendia                   Rogers

                             Watkins

Pau - To break their manic pressing game
Guessand - to deal with physical battle and height at set pieces

Bench

Bizot
Sancho - later in the game to stretch them
Bogarde - to replace Onana if / when he tires
Maatsen - bring pace when they tire
Mings - if we are holding on in last minutes when they will try and bombard us
Lindeloff - can be anywhere across back and even CDM if needed
Hemmings
Bailey

They have not won a single game when Bruno is out - so fingers crossed he is rested for their "Bigger" games to come

I actually fancy SUE to exorcise another ghost 

                           

[markeeeebeeee2005]

I think we’re seeing a hyper focused Unai now, desperate to prove everybody wrong. Especially the corrupt Premier League and UEFA.

Hard fought one to Villa, none to the toon.

[OCD]

I'd go

Martinez

Cash
Konsa
Pau
Maatsen

Onana
Bogarde

Buendia
Tielemans
Rogers

Watkins

[Clampy]

I'd play Lindeloff rather than Pau. I think he'd handle that 80's German porn star they have up front better.

[Dave]

I'd play Lindeloff rather than Pau. I think he'd handle that 80's German porn star they have up front better.

As someone else said upthread though, Newcastle do well when they press their opponent's defence. And if they don't succeed at that, then you have four of our players running at their slow centre-backs, if you can just find the right pass through them.

So more important than winning headers is probably the thing that Pau can do.