Newcastle take on the Toffees at Goodison Park this afternoon looking to keep the momentum going. The lads are coming off a terrific point against Manchester City while advancing to the Carabao Cup Round of 16 where they’ll take on Chelsea at St. James’ Park.
Everton too have a bit of momentum after getting their first win of the season against Crystal Palace last weekend. This will be a difficult test for the Magpies, who still struggle away from home.
This is the side Eddie Howe has named for today’s clash. It is the same team that drew 1-1 against Man City last weekend.
Good to go at Goodison Park! ? pic.twitter.com/yqJmYq7KTE
— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) October 5, 2024
Here is the team Sean Dyche has selected for the hosts.
Your Toffees to face Newcastle United. COYB! ??? pic.twitter.com/QLttujDx4a
— Everton (@Everton) October 5, 2024
Taking all the spoils at Goodison would mean a comfortable international break on Tyneside. It will not be easy as the Toffees have played well and but for some late match collapses, would be in a much better place in the table.
Hopefully, this team can get the job done and Anthony Gordon can again play well up front in place of the injured Alexander Isak.
Howay The Lads!
2,227 comments so far
JaveaToon
Oct 18, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Comment #2121You are correct Ledge…as far as I’m aware ๐
Moonraker…1 for each team ๐ …neither of them doing much either.
JaveaToon
Oct 18, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Comment #2122Alisson Beckers got 3 assists and 1 goal…in slightly more games tho tbf
Moonraker15
Oct 18, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Comment #2123JaveaToon
No, he meant two 8โs in one team.
Is an 8 an attacking midfielder and a 10 more the playmaker?
JaveaToon
Oct 18, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Comment #2124Moonraker…Yeah I was joking mate…badly!
Hopefully the 2nd half is better and a few goals would be nice.
JaveaToon
Oct 18, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Comment #2125An 8 is box to box really, doing both attacking and defending and a 10 generally behind the forwards in from of the central mf, should be canny technically and have a bit of nous about him.
Davas
Oct 18, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Comment #2126According to Keith Downie, Botman won’t be back till Christmas. Plus he explains why the Tosin deal fell through which screwed the window up.
https://youtu.be/c1S0lFwea20?si=AKJuf6mEZxlnaRIb
Davas
Oct 18, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Comment #2127Just watched Sean’s interview (thanks for the link nadj). Good watch.
Interestingly, he reckons Botman is lightning quick.
magscar
Oct 18, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Comment #2128Davas
Just watched Sean’s interview and enjoyed it very much – good lad ,relaxed and talked a lot of sense
He also said Boitman and Isak were “world class” ๐
Raj of Hailsley
Oct 18, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Comment #2129Davas,
Can’t really watch, why was it?
Davas
Oct 18, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Comment #2130Magscar
Yeah, he did seem very relaxed and it was interesting to hear his take on stuff. I was going to mention the “world class ” comments as well but thought it might be a bit much all at once ๐
Davas
Oct 18, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Comment #2131Raj
Because everything was agreed but he wanted a release clause and a clause for a certain club if they came in but when the club dug their heels in, Chelsea came in.
magscar
Oct 18, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Comment #2132Davas
Also watched Downie and a different twist on the Toisin transfer to what I thought but sounds plausble
I’ve been saying for awhile though that i believed that failed deal messed up our summer window
Davas
Oct 18, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Comment #2133Yeah,
According to him, if we’d got Tosin we would have then gone for a right winger, which would have been a whole different window
JohnJ
Oct 18, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Comment #2134I was gutted when a few Toon players were allowed to leave but I never forgave Gordon Lee for letting SuperMac go to Arsenalโฆโฆ. ๐
Also gutted to lose Andy Cole but thereโs many more! Hopefully those days are, mainly, behind us now!
lochinvar
Oct 18, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Comment #2135Well even more bollox from Teamyoucouldn’tmakeitup
His performances are not groundbreaking and his value has dropped. ยฃ50m max
Newcastle are ready to make a renewed attempt to sign England and Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi, 24, in January for around ยฃ80m. (Teamtalk)
The overrated Frenchman
Oct 19, 2024 at 4:22 AM
Comment #2136I wonder if Eddie might think about playing Kelly on Minteh. Heโs more experienced and I think a bit quicker than Hall. I rate Hall but heโs still on a learning curve. Just a thought
check the toastie
Oct 19, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Comment #2137Isak coming back in an Arsenal shirt wud have been something to look forward under Ashley.
Gordon in a Liverpool shirt, Bruno in a City shirt. Big Joe, Schar allowed to run their contracts down. Scrambling around at the bottom of the league. Going for 0-0s at home against top 10 opponents.
Looking forward to watching our superb team this afternoon. Hope Minteh has a shocker.
He is currently a poor mans Charles Insomnia
JaveaToon
Oct 19, 2024 at 7:07 AM
Comment #2138Matchdayyyyyyyyyyy!! ๐
Tis true Check, I wonder if Ashley ever thinks ‘I missed a trick there’? I doubt it cos he’s a twat but a little bit of investment and running it properly commercially, but instead he decided to set us back years. Absolutely abhorrent arse hole.
Anyhoo, looking forward to a canny performance, good result, Isak, Gordon and Minteh(og) goals will do me ๐
check the toastie
Oct 19, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Comment #2139JT – yeh, hopefully get at them early and snatch a vital three points. Some tuff games coming up
JaveaToon
Oct 19, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Comment #2140Check…Aye, no better time to properly get into our stride with those games coming up against a good Brighton team. With home advantage hoping for a good win to set us up nicely for the 2 Chelsea games and then Arsenal.
Raj of Hailsley
Oct 19, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Comment #2141JT,
No, I don’t think he did. That association with a PL club put Rots Direct firmly on the global map and that’s what he wanted. Gawd knows how much that level of advertising would have cost him at Stoke or Southampton etc, it cost him foo# all here. People were always under the misconception that a successful Nufc would be better for Rots D but it was a myth. Frank’s carpets didn’t/doesn’t need fancy adverts to do what it does. It suited him to have us ran like a tat shop. He only sold up imo because he seen a Shew Wed, Derby or Coventry was coming to us and it would have wiped ยฃ200M+ off the asking price.
JaveaToon
Oct 19, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Comment #2142Jail, quite likely. He could have still increased the commercial side and promoted his crap. Was always a bit baffled why he didn’t go the whole hog and put his shitty company on the shirts too. Glad he didn’t like but shocked he didn’t.
magscar
Oct 19, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Comment #2143Thought I’d entered a time warp for a moment ๐
Hoping for a good performance this afternoon
Eddie spoke well and confidently about how well training had gone …..but of course half of team were away
No matter if we get Isak back AND he is firing on all cylinders then hopefully so will team
A performance like at Everton but with some punch up front would be ok
I think Longstaff and Joelinton will start but who with in midfield ? Bruno rather than Tonali?
Defence picks itself and front 3 of Gordon,Isak and Murphy
Great to have proper footie back ๐
Raj of Hailsley
Oct 19, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Comment #2144JT,
Always puzzled me why he never put SD on the front of the shirt, maybe you can over saturate advertising and the money he was getting from Virgin, Wonga etc was needed for running costs.
Hibbit
Oct 19, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Comment #2145morning all finally a live game to go to, to many of these meaningless international breaks now,
Raj of Hailsley
Oct 19, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Comment #2146JT,
As for commercial revenue, I don’t think he needed it, it would have meant hiring more staff and possibly harder to syphon off in to benefiting Rots Direct or himself.
Raj of Hailsley
Oct 19, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Comment #2147Hibbit,
There’s another one next month. I hope the club’s revolt about this NL, it’s bloody pointless. Mind you I was talking to a Scottish lad the other day who was in favour, maybe it is good for those that might not normally make it in to the Euro’s.
JaveaToon
Oct 19, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Comment #2148Jail… Surely Penfold was more than capable of doing it all ๐ ๐
Anyhoo matchday so enough of those dark days.
Off for breakfast on the Arenal(not a euphemism) as soon as wor lass is ready…so probs dinnertime ๐
Raj of Hailsley
Oct 19, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Comment #2149JaveaToon,
With you being an hour ahead over there, no spoilers with the score ๐
JaveaToon
Oct 19, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Comment #2150Jail…Haha. I once called me Mam when she was watching the chase and told her I could tell her the answers as I was an hour ahead and she fell for it. Mind this is the woman who sends a message and says in it “let me know if you get this” so I reply “no I didn’t get it” and she can’t understand why I didn’t. This is the woman who when we were kids in the back of the car driving somewhere, my dad said “the car seems a bit low on one side” (now bear in mind he’d been doing some work on the car the day before), my mam said “did you jack the car all the way down yesterday?”… Even as kids we were astounded ๐
Raj of Hailsley
Oct 19, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Comment #2151My mates Ma was once asked if she’d seen Rita, Sue and Bob too. She genuinely replied I haven’t even seen the first one ๐
JaveaToon
Oct 19, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Comment #2152๐
At least I know where I got my brains from!…not me Dad!
JaveaToon
Oct 19, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Comment #2153Didn’t know Lennie Lawrence was at Hartlepool, did they have him re-animated?
JaveaToon
Oct 19, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Comment #2154…and very sad news about Bruce’s grandson, awful thing for him and his family to go through.
lochinvar
Oct 19, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Comment #2155For the breakfast clubbers
https://x.com/PMFA_No1/status/1847236526020739284?t=I_QznmHIlsh_DCxhfF2xwA&s=08
JaveaToon
Oct 19, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Comment #2156Loch…quality ๐
I’ll ask for that now but might just get a funny look or two.
Raj of Hailsley
Oct 19, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Comment #2157https://x.com/SkySportsPL/status/1847240290173685798?s=19
“We didn’t want to sell Yankuba [Minteh] at all, we believed in his potential”
“Eddie Howe says selling Yankuba Minteh to Brighton was a financial decision”
Eddie Howe being a bed wetting, pissy knickered, yellow bellied melt or just echoing the thoughts of plenty of fans???
Hibbit
Oct 19, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Comment #2158well that’s us off to the toon , enjoy the game boy and girls where ever your watching it.
๐ Good Luck Toon Army ๐
Munster Mag
Oct 19, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Comment #2159Glad to have real footie back….seems like a month. Could be a tough gig for Hall today.
Raj of Hailsley
Oct 19, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Comment #2160Munster,
I hope Hall has an absolute blinder if for nothing else but to pi$$ on your chips.