The Newcastle side for the important game at Leicester City has just been announced by interim coach John Carver and Paul Dummett is back at left back in place of Vurnon Anita and Cabella is also dropped to the bench as in comes Moussa Sissoko after his two game suspension.
Teams:
Leicester (3-5-2): Kasper Schmeichel; Marcin Wasilewski, Robert Huth, Wes Morgan (c); Marc Albrighton, Matty James, Esteban Cambiasso, Riyad Mahrez, Jeff Schlupp; Jamie Vardy, Leonardo Ulloa
Substitutes: Mark Schwarzer, Ritchie De Laet, Paul Konchesky, Danny Drinkwater, Dean Hammond, Chris Wood, Andrej Kramaric
Newcastle (4-4-2): Tim Krul; Daryl Janmaat, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini (c), Paul Dummett; Ryan Taylor Jonas Gutierrez, Jack Colback Moussa Sissoko; Ayoze Perez, Emmanuel Riviere
Substitutes: Freddie Woodman, Vurnon Anita, Mehdi Abeid, Siem de Jong, Remy Cabella, Sammy Ameobi, Adam Armstrong
Newcastle will play in a 4-4-2 formation with Perez and Riviere again up front and Siem de Jong on the bench.
We think Ryan Taylor has been preferred because of his free kick ability and he is one of the few Newcastle players who can score form a free kick, and it’s good to have Moussa Sissoko back in the side for his powerful runs.
For Leicester Stoke City on-loan center-back Robert Huth starts the game, after he picked up a slight thigh injury on Wednesday night in the 3-1 defeat to Chelsea.
John Carver has called this game one of the toughest of the remaining four games, but we have to win sometime don’t we?
Here’s what Carver said:
“If I’m perfectly honest out of the next four games, I think this is going to be one of the toughest.” “Me and Steve Stone traveled down to watch them against Chelsea and the atmosphere was incredible, so we’ll have to deal with that.”
“Leicester were very well organised, very strong and a big physical side but they did run out of steam a little bit.” “We have to make sure we stay in the game. They’re very tight and they work extremely hard.”
“They’ll put us under pressure and not give us a minute on the ball.” “But because of their work rate they tire, and we must use that to our advantage.” “Four weeks ago his team weren’t even in the hunt to stay in this league, but Nigel Pearson has turned that around.”
“This is certainly the biggest game of the weekend – it’s huge for both sides for different reasons.” “The important thing is we need to get a result because we all know what run we are in at the moment and that needs to end.”
Results are all that matter in our last four games.
But only one in five readers think we will win the game today, which we need to do to pull to safety.
We to need to get at least a draw today.
Howay The Lads!!
410 comments so far
BoyDoneGood
May 2, 2015 at 2:43 PM
Comment #401Totally unprofessional. Dummet couild have been off too. I have to eat my words – the remains of this squad may now well fail to register a single point more. They’ll still stay up. Jesus wept.
jesperfuglsang - capt'n awesome of the lemon crew
May 2, 2015 at 2:43 PM
Comment #402Common Ashley put Carver out of his misery…put us out if our misery for peach sake!
…the Sunderland and SOTON game is going to be so much more interesting now…relegation is at the door!
Blackley and Brownlie
May 2, 2015 at 2:46 PM
Comment #403If Ashley was thinking about asset stripping, someone should tell him he’s got no assets to strip. Bruised fruit in a charity shop window would fetch more.
lochinvar
May 2, 2015 at 2:46 PM
Comment #404From Dante’s Divine Comedy. ( abridged )
Through me you pass into our toon of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for why aye.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
toonking
May 2, 2015 at 2:47 PM
Comment #405even if carver did leave, we’d get just as bad person coming in , charnley maybe?
just forget about this manager issue, act like blackpool and protest against this owner, boycott or pitch invade, even opposition team now scream against that fat git
clinath@ed
May 2, 2015 at 2:47 PM
Comment #406” “Speechless
MAUTITOON
May 2, 2015 at 2:47 PM
Comment #407My dear toon folks, kindly join me in a bid to pray for victory to liverpool,southampton,everton, and man utd to keep us in the premier league hopefully.amen
lochinvar
May 2, 2015 at 2:49 PM
Comment #408Ron Knee // May 2, 2015 at 2:38 PM
How many matches will Janmaat miss?
Not as many as me and our kid – two season tickets cancelled
theartfuldodger
May 2, 2015 at 2:52 PM
Comment #409If we stay up somehow this season, we will go down next.
The atmosphere in and out of the club is too toxic.
Average manager, average investment will not alleviate the mood.
Cant see a top manager coming in. Cant see Ashley breaking the bank spending 60m on a new squad. Perhaps its best we go down and hope that Ashley goes.
BoyDoneGood
May 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM
Comment #410There’s no excuse for the players, even though Carver must be the worst coach in history, and Ashley’s man Charnley has recruited so poorly. The guys on the pitch are earning more for this embarrassing season than I earned in a lifetime. All the back four are deeply culpable, Jonas thought he was going to be Roy of the ****ing Rovers, Sissoko was finally responsible for the first goal, Riviere…
Well done, Leicester, but in the end they should have had 5.
Major rebuild needed, root and branch.