Steve McClaren has just announced the Newcastle side for the tough game at Stamford Bridge this afternoon and as we suspected – it’s an unchanged side from the one that did so well last Saturday in beating West Brom 1-0.
And the subs bench is strengthened significantly from last week with Lascelles, Colback and Manu Riviere all coming back.
Colback and Riviere are back from injury and Lascelles is back from his one game suspension.
So Rolando Aarons who had a good game at left back last week keeps his place and keeps Jack Colback on the bench.
Teams:
Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Thibaut Courtois; Branislav Ivanovic, Gary Cahill, John Terry (c), Cesar Azpilicueta; Nemanja Matic, Cesc Fabregas; Pedro, Willian, Eden Hazard; Diego Costa
Substitutes: Asmir Begovic, Baba Rahman, John Obi Mikel, Rueben Loftus-Cheek, Bertrand Traore, Kenedy, Loic Remy
Newcastle (4-2-3-1): Rob Elliot; Daryl Janmaat, Steven Taylor, Fabricio Coloccini (c), Rolando Aarons; Cheick Tiote, Jonjo Shelvey; Moussa Sissoko, Georginio Wijnaldum, Andros Townsend; Aleksandar Mitrovic
Substitutes: Karl Darlow, Jamaal Lascelles, Jack Colback, Henri Saivet, Ayoze Perez, Emmanuel Riviere, Seydou Doumbia
Referee: Roger East (Wiltshire)
The weekend did not start off well for Newcastle with Sunderland getting a surprise but deserved 2-1 home win against an off-color Manchester United side – and the Black Cats and are now just one point behind us.
At the time of writing West Brom are also winning 1-0 at Everton and could possibly get a surprise win there this afternoon – after we easily beat them last week.
It will now be very important that Newcastle now get something out of this game today if we are to remain out of the bottom three for the next two and a half weeks.
This is what manager Steve McClaren has said about the game today:
“It’s a problem we’ve had all season.” “It is down to the way we play – we tend to play on the front foot, which is good when you’re at home, but away we’ve been exposed and haven’t ground out enough results.
“If two or three of our away games had been draws then we would have ground out a few more points and we would be in a slightly better situation.”
“It is something we need to address because we can’t afford to rely on our home form, because then the pressure on those games will just become too much.”
“In our home games we are starting to get a consistency in our performance and the way we play. “We need to start transferring that to our away games and picking up points away from home – we owe it to the fans.”
Less than one in three fans think we can get the win today at Stamford Bridge.
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sing in the corner
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:35 PM
Comment #1Yes Noble you cheeky cockney chappie!
John Akomfrah
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:35 PM
Comment #2noble
nufc13789
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:35 PM
Comment #3Goal west ham
Take A Chancel On Me
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:35 PM
Comment #4Probably the best team we could have tbh
mindshaft
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:35 PM
Comment #5West Ham equalise – help is at hand!
AncientC
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:35 PM
Comment #6Courtois; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry (c), Azpilicueta; Fabregas, Matic; Pedro, Willian, Hazard; Diego Costa.
subs: Begovic, Baba, Mikel, Loftus-Cheek, Traore, Kenedy, Remy.
I was hoping Mikel would play.
Sissoko has to step up today, if he is on it, we have a chance.
Take A Chancel On Me
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:35 PM
Comment #7get in noble, now get a 3rd
mindshaft
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:36 PM
Comment #8Now we just need Everton to get a couple of goals and happy days
davetoon
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:37 PM
Comment #9its that point when you re-read the quotes and think WTF
Charlie in the Gallowgate
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:37 PM
Comment #10Ron knee
Just checked west ham’s last win at Norwich was in 1972-73 season when ‘Pop’ Robson scored
and it ain’t going to be today.
We could be in a hell of a whole when we come to plat our next game Stoke away Mar 02 if the games go the way of today we will be cast adrift at the bottom.
ARGHHHHHHH
Take A Chancel On Me
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:37 PM
Comment #11Armstrong just scored a quick fire double for Coventry
lukes26
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:39 PM
Comment #12undoubtedly the strongest lineup and bench we’ve had since the 2011-12 season
Ron Knee
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:40 PM
Comment #13Charlie
We never seem to play well after a break. Not looking good, mate.
Take A Chancel On Me
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:41 PM
Comment #14Hahaha Palace losing again 🙂
magscar
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:42 PM
Comment #15magscar // Feb 13, 2016 at 4:40 PM
Repost
Optimistic
It is a bit complicated especially at first but if you go on You Tube and search for Husham there is a step by step guide for his repo (?).
There are others and as AC suggested you could just try searching for just Phoenix as a start as Valhalla is within that and the streams are under “Live TV” then “live” probably your quickest solution.
Think it was Tsunki pointed me in direction of Valhalla (which I had but didn’t know where streams were) but AC also very helpful and referred me to a site “seo Michael” which is also very good on Kodi.
It is all a bit of a steep learning curve but worth it. Good luck!
jordijohnty
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:43 PM
Comment #16same starting lineup at home to shllty west brom used today away at chelsea who are on a bit of a run. Any lessons learnt yet Mr Mclaren?
mindshaft
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:43 PM
Comment #17Anyone remember this sort of sequence after decent start to season DDLLLLDL … take a bow Mr Pardew 🙂
Take A Chancel On Me
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:44 PM
Comment #18Mindshaft
Looks like a Welsh town lol
Bluggen
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:47 PM
Comment #19i hope doumbia gets a bit of a run to show what he can do
geordie157
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:52 PM
Comment #20Good to see Satka and Cameron are helping York have a chance of staying up.
Decent side and bench today, a point will do but I think we can win this…..if the players close down and really go for it
Take A Chancel On Me
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:55 PM
Comment #21No matter what happens we will stay out of the bottom 3 going into the break
toon kk
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:55 PM
Comment #22Wonder if we turn up today, it was a long trip down, we could be tired and very lethargic.
MAUTITOON
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:57 PM
Comment #23we always turn up against bigger opponents,isn’t it?
Charlie in the Gallowgate
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:57 PM
Comment #24Ron
yeah break comes at a bad time and they are going for some sun – never seems to work a break in the sun
Take A Chancel On Me
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:57 PM
Comment #25We always turn up against the big teams and we always show up when we are on TV
martoon
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:59 PM
Comment #26Chancel @21 – I’m afraid we will if we get by 2 goals or more 🙁
martoon
Feb 13, 2016 at 4:59 PM
Comment #27*beat
Take A Chancel On Me
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:00 PM
Comment #28Martoon
I just noticed that but we will win
beermonkey
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:02 PM
Comment #29magscar
whats good on husham
AncientC
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:03 PM
Comment #30https://twitter.com/TrueGeordieNUFC/status/698552421769965570 LOL
NoahJ
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:03 PM
Comment #31toon KK @21
sadly, this isn’t necessarily true. If we lose by more than 2 goals today,then we’ll go back into relegation zone on goal difference.
Ron Knee
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:03 PM
Comment #32Chelsea seem to specialise in face masks.
Goofy
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:03 PM
Comment #33Can’t know if it’s going to be Mr jeykll or Hyde that turns up today. I’ll take the draw.
toonbrother
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:04 PM
Comment #34i dont know who the second worst defender in the league is
but i do know he comes a distant second to colocinni
with colo in the mix ours is a losing battle
Goofy
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:04 PM
Comment #35Meant Dr.
MAUTITOON
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:07 PM
Comment #36Aren’t we due an away win?
Rotonda heights
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:07 PM
Comment #37CP no wins in 9.
7 losses in 8. Sound familiar lol !!!
A s—e manager is a s—e manager wherever he goes . Just took slightly longer than usual this time.
Hilarious CP fans complaining about no plan B and defensive long ball football. Can’t say they weren’t warned.
Mixed resuts today. swansea and bournemouth losing and norwich only getting a point was all good.
Wanted to see pulis and WBA get dragged into it for his anti football, but have to admit for an allardyce team sunderland actiually played some good football today.
Goofy
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:07 PM
Comment #38Toonbrother
How did you manage to write that message. I thought it would be impossible with your hands in a straight jacket, (screaming COLOCINNI) give it a rest man, he’s not that bad.
catchy in norway
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:08 PM
Comment #39http://www.vipbox.tv/football/311498/1/chelsea-vs-newcastle-united-live-stream-online.html
bettyswallocks
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:10 PM
Comment #40Too brother…… I was really hoping you had been booted off with all the other wums. What a waste of space you are.!!