Newcastle United and Brentford will face on Saturday the 16th of September at 5:30 pm in the 5th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be played in Newcastle upon Tyne at the St. James’ Park. The chosen referee is Craig Pawson.
Newcastle United is in the 14th position in the table with 3 points. It comes from a 3-1 loss against Brighton & Hove Albion in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won once and lost 3 times.
Brentford is in the 8th position in the table with 6 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against AFC Bournemouth in its last match in the Premier League.
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 (4 times).
Eddie Howe is expected to play against Brentford with the following players: Nick Pope, Dan Burn, Fabian Schär, Kieran Trippier, Joelinton, Sean Longstaff, Bruno Guimarães, Anthony Gordon, Miguel Almirón and Alexander Isak.
Presuming that the above line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Newcastle United would be 28.10.
There are doubts about the presence of Sven Botman.
Eddie Howe will probably not be able to employ Emil Krafth, Javier Manquillo, Elliot Anderson and Sandro Tonali because of injury.
Joseph Willock will definitely miss the match.
Brentford
Brentford has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (3 times or 75.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (3 times) and 5-3-2 (once).
Thomas Frank is expected to play against Newcastle United with the following players: Mark Flekken, Nathan Collins, Ethan Pinnock, Ben Mee, Rico Henry, Aaron Hickey, Vitaly Janelt, Mathias Jensen, Christian Nörgaard, Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Brentford would be 26.82.
Thomas Frank will probably not be able to employ Mikkel Damsgaard because of injury.
Shandon Baptiste and Josh Dasilva will definitely miss the match.
Thomas Frank will not be able to have the presence of Ivan Toney who is suspended.