Assistant manager Chris Hughton recalls Geremi and Alan Smith to the Newcastle United midfield, for the visit of the reigning European and World Club Champions, Manchester United.
Former Man Utd and Leeds United player Alan Smith is starting his first game of the season for Newcastle, having returned from a six-month layoff in January with an Achilles injury.
Nicky Butt, who picked up a knee injury during Sunday’s 1-0 defeat at Bolton, is still named as a substitute, while Shola Ameobi drops down to the bench, after an unimpressive display on Sunday. However, neither Viduka nor Carroll replaces him up front.
There is no place even on the bench for Mark Viduka, as Hughton looks to play five across the midfield, with probably Oba Martins the lone striker up front.
It could also be that Lovenkrands will play up front with Martins, to provide more of a goal threat to the excellent Manchester United defense, which has conceded just 11 goals in their 26 league games so far this season.
Steve Harper, the longest serving player at the Tyneside club, and who recently became the number one goalkeeper, captains the Magpies, who will have an unchanged back four as expected, with 18 year-old Kazenga LuaLua also on the bench tonight.
For the Red Devils, goalkeeper Van Der Sar, Ronaldo, Berbatov, Rooney, local Wallsend-born Michael Carrick, and Ferdinand all start, with the bench packed with Anderson, Ryan Giggs, Ben Foster, Paul Scholes, Jonny Evans, Carlos Tevez, and 19 year-old youngster Richard Eckersley
This will certainly be a difficult game for Newcastle, and it looks like Hughton is betting on packing the midfield tonight, and hopefully winning the 50-50 balls.
It’s time for heroes for some of the lads in those famous black and white stripes – that’s for sure.
We’ll be back at the end of the game tonight.
Howay The Lads!!
TEAMS
Newcastle United: Steve Harper (c), Steven Taylor, Jose Enrique, Fabricio Coloccini, Sebastien Bassong, Geremi, Alan Smith, Jonas Gutierrez, Ryan Taylor, Peter Lovenkrands, Oba Martins
Subs: Tim Krul, Claudio Cacapa, David Edgar, Shola Ameobi, Nicky Butt, Andy Carroll, Kazenga LuaLua
Manchester United: Edwin Van der Sar, Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dimitar Berbatov, Wayne Rooney, Ji-Sung Park, Nemanja Vidic, Michael Carrick, John O’Shea, Darren Fletcher
Subs: Anderson, Ryan Giggs, Ben Foster, Paul Scholes, Jonny Evans, Carlos Tevez, Richard Eckersley
Referee: Steve Bennett
Attendance: tbc
411 comments so far
Marty-Toon
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Comment #81Beattie scored again tonight and stoke are 1up
Who on here was sayin no to buyin him??????????
beyethegreat
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Comment #82hitman why do you wanna hit ian payne
hitman
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Comment #83he fkin iritates
DJG
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Comment #84Just listening now but what I saw was a really good game.
We need to take this spirt to Hull. Martins looks sharp.
mattyNUFC
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Comment #85bey the great
what’s the password for the link you gave?
RichY
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Comment #86lost all streaming here… gutted!
Oleg G
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Comment #87Why All the Links are down?
Here in Israel it costs 15 Euro to watch the game on TV. its too expensive 🙁
And how can I change the Password when i am trying to login to here? the pass is really ennoying.
DJG
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Comment #88Should have 2nd half stream with it being a man u match. 😉
reillers
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Comment #89Man U have played so many games recently it’s bound to take a toll. But they look like they’re settling down now which is worrying to us.
Oleg G
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Comment #90Anyone have at least a RADIO stream?
RyanToon
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Comment #91are your links working???
mine aint
can you put one on here please
OHurley
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Comment #92Man, please score us a goal, Jonas!! PLEASE!!! OMG, I wanna us to beat Manure so bad!
OHurley
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Comment #93Dangit, Tayls!! Keep your game clean, lad!
Bosck
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Comment #94any decent links please!! none i can find are working. how we playing ssn say the mancs are getting on top?
square
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Comment #95note to self, punching with my bicep will bring a man down! hahahahhahaha
It Could Be Worse...We Could Be Spurs -DC-
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Comment #96bollocks…gonna have to take off work and head to the pub for the second half…and i was so cozy watching it from my office
geist
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Comment #97http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_radio_five_live/
radio link but hopefully there will be a stream for 2nd half.
DJG
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Comment #98TOON TOON
square
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Comment #99ferdinand is one ugly faker. his mouth can fit one full size adult bass!
Soren
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Comment #100Iraqgoals.com works again.
Toonmadtom
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Comment #101howay lads a draw would be great it would give us a real boost going into the hull game
Brutooon
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Comment #102we should score 2nd and 3rd from martins and r.taylor…and thats just 20 mins inside the game!
geist
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Comment #103is it stuttering for you soren as well?
OHurley
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Comment #104So since I can’t see the game, was that smug little tw#t Van Der Sar actually crying? Please tell me he was, because that would make my day!!
RyanToon
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Comment #105wat link you all using
reillers
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Comment #106And Man U should have scored. Vidic missed a sitter. Park’s shot was deflected off Rooney, Rooney made a hash of a shot on goal..etc. Man U should be up, but they’re not. If they keep going this way we’ll loose. It only takes one from them to start an avalange. We need to take the game 5 minutes at a time and keep our concentration.
Marty-Toon
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Comment #107Oh man….hope we get streams for the 2nd half.
Although i thought i was gonna have a JOE KINNEAR for a minute (i know the man is sick n it`s a bad joke but hey gotta keep the spirits up) ;-))))))))
Toonfan1
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Comment #108mine is stuttering geist 🙁
to many people watching
Soren
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Comment #109http://www.iraqgoals.com/en/ch1.html works
RyanToon
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Comment #110spuds 3-0
Rodzilla
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Comment #111…must admit, I usually find Ronaldo quite amusing/entertaining – but when he does all that fancy stepover sh1te against us I fill with rage 😀
…Taylor was lucky not to get red, but that forearm smash was worth every penny for me. Admittedly I didn’t see it properly as my stream is sh1te.
Just hope we keep our cool……..
RyanToon
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Comment #112iraqgoals keeps jumping tho
DJG
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Comment #113COME ON TOON COME ON MANURE U LITTLE PRAWN SANDWICH C##TS.
beyethegreat
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Comment #114matty which 1
we need a link
Marty-Toon
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Comment #115O`Hurley
He was well pissed at himself alright lol
Geordie1973
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Comment #116Guys, try
http://livefooty.doctor-serv.com/wed4.3/Newcastle_ManUtd.html
It’s a half decent stream, been watching the first half (missed 1st 15 minutes !).
Marty-Toon
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Comment #1173-0 to the Spuds
Brutooon
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Comment #118before man utd score, we can at least got 3 -0 in front..(suprisingly)
we lose most of our points this season because we miss lots of chances
Rodzilla
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Comment #119I was on veetle.com, which was perfect until just before manure scored! stream came back and it was 1-1. tw@ts!
DJM TOON
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Comment #120the feed aways drops when its half time, iraqgoals will be back