Newcastle United and Manchester United will face off on Monday the 27th of December at 8:00 pm in the 19th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be played in Newcastle upon Tyne at the St. James’ Park. The referee will be Craig Pawson.
Newcastle United occupies the 19th position in the league with 10 points. It comes from a 0-4 loss against Manchester City in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won once, draw 7 times, and lost 10 times.
Manchester United occupies the 6th place in the league with 27 points. It comes from a 0-1 win against Norwich City in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 8 times, draw 3 times, and lost 5 times.
Manchester United won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 20th of November against Watford and the score was 4-1.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Newcastle United
Newcastle United has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-4-2 and 5-3-2 (4 times or 22.22% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (4 times), 5-3-2 (4 times), 5-4-1 (3 times), 4-1-4-1 (3 times), 4-5-1 (2 times), 3-4-3 (once) and 3-5-2 (once).
Eddie Howe is expected to play against Manchester United with the following players: M. Dúbravka, M. Ritchie, F. Schär, J. Lascelles, J. Murphy, I. Hayden, J. Willock, M. Almirón Rejala, J. Apolinário de Lira, A. Saint-Maximin and C. Wilson.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Newcastle United would be 27.36.
Eddie Howe will probably not be able to employ J. Manquillo Gaitán and J. Shelvey because of injury.
K. Darlow, F. Fernández and J. Lewis will definitely miss the match.
Manchester United
Manchester United has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 68.75%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (11 times), 4-2-2-2 (2 times), 4-3-1-2 (once), 3-5-2 (once) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
Ralf Rangnick is expected to play against Newcastle United with the following players: D. de Gea Quintana, L. Shaw, H. Maguire, S. McTominay, J. Sancho, B. Borges Fernandes, M. Rashford and C. Ronaldo.
Granting that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Manchester United would be 27.25.
There are doubts about the presence of V. Nilsson Lindelöf and A. Wan-Bissaka.
Ralf Rangnick will probably not be able to employ N. Matić, R. Varane, E. Cavani and A. Martial because of injury.
P. Pogba will definitely miss the match.
