Newcastle United and Manchester United will face on Sunday the 2nd of April at 4:30 pm in the 29th week of the Premier League. The match will take place in Newcastle upon Tyne at the St. James’ Park. The appointed referee is Stuart Attwell.
Newcastle United sits in the 5th position in the standings with 47 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Nottingham Forest in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 12 times, draw 11 times, and lost 3 times.
Manchester United is in the 3rd position in the table with 50 points. It comes from a 0-0 draw against Southampton in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 15 times, draw 5 times, and lost 6 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Newcastle United
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (26 times).
Eddie Howe is expected to play against Manchester United with the following players: Dan Burn, Fabian Schär, Sven Botman, Kieran Trippier, Sean Longstaff, Joseph Willock, Bruno Guimarães, Joelinton, Allan Saint-Maximin and Alexander Isak.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Newcastle United would be 27.20.
There are doubts about the presence of Nick Pope.
Eddie Howe will probably not be able to employ Anthony Gordon because of injury.
Emil Krafth, Miguel Almirón and Matthew Longstaff will definitely miss the match.
Manchester United
Manchester United has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (23 times or 88.46%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (23 times), 4-1-4-1 (2 times) and 4-3-3 (once).
Erik ten Hag is expected to play against Newcastle United with the following players: David De Gea, Luke Shaw, Lisandro Martínez, Diogo Dalot, Fred, Scott McTominay, Bruno Fernandes, Anthony Elanga and Wout Weghorst.
In case that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Manchester United would be 27.56.
There are doubts about the presence of Raphaël Varane and Marcus Rashford.
Erik ten Hag will probably not be able to employ Marcel Sabitzer and Anthony Martial because of injury.
Tom Heaton, Phil Jones, Christian Eriksen, Donny van de Beek and Alejandro Ferreyra will definitely miss the match.
Erik ten Hag will not be able to have the presence of Casemiro and Mason Greenwood who are both suspended.