glyn
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I’m dreading winning tonight and having six days of believing we could do it!
Pre Match Newcastle v Leicester
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I'm afraid we'll have to. Imagine that is, because it ain't happening.
Blaarev
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…..and that he was involved in our first ever Champions League goal.
Head-to-head
Newcastle United
Leicester City
- Newcastle are vying to complete their first Premier League double against Leicester since the 1994-95 season.
- The Foxes have lost three of their past four top-flight games versus the Magpies, more defeats than in the previous 10 meetings (W8, L2).
- Newcastle beat Leicester 2-0 at St James' Park on 10 January in the quarter-finals of this season's EFL Cup.
Newcastle United
- Victory would take the Magpies to 72 points, their highest Premier League total since finishing as runners-up with 78 points in 1995-96.
- Newcastle's tally of 67 goals is their most in a top-flight campaign since netting 74 in 2001-02.
- They have failed to keep a clean sheet in each of their past nine top-flight matches and have recorded just one shutout in 16.
- Eddie Howe is unbeaten in all six of his Premier League home matches against Leicester, winning each of the last three (W4, D2).
- Callum Wilson has scored 11 times in 10 top-flight appearances since the start of April, averaging a goal every 50 minutes during this period.
Leicester City
- The Foxes are in danger of being relegated from the English top flight for the 12th time, which would equal the record held by Birmingham City.
- They have lost all nine league matches this season against the teams currently in the top five of the table.
- Leicester will become the first team to play Premier League fixtures on four consecutive Mondays. They have taken one point from the previous three, drawing with Everton before losing to Fulham and Liverpool.
- They have gone 21 consecutive top-flight matches without a clean sheet since beating West Ham 2-0 on 12 November.
- Leicester have conceded 41 away league goals in 2022-23, their highest total in a 38-game campaign since 1914-15.
- The Foxes have not won their final away league fixture in any of the previous eight seasons (D3, L5), last doing so when they beat Huddersfield 2-0 during their promotion-winning campaign in the Championship in 2013-14.
- All three of Dean Smith's Premier League away matches against Newcastle have ended 1-1, with Aston Villa in 2019-20 and 2020-21 and with Norwich last season.
homer
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3-5-2
Nacho and Vardy up front
Mendy, KDH and Maddison the midfield, with Ricardo and Thomas at wing back
Not much hope of anything coming from that, but it would just be nice to see them have a ****ing go at the ****s
Won’t happen, obviously - he’ll play 4-2-3-1 and it will be a deep block with the crazy hope to hit them on the break to a totally isolated poor bastard up front
Nacho and Vardy up front
Mendy, KDH and Maddison the midfield, with Ricardo and Thomas at wing back
Not much hope of anything coming from that, but it would just be nice to see them have a ****ing go at the ****s
Won’t happen, obviously - he’ll play 4-2-3-1 and it will be a deep block with the crazy hope to hit them on the break to a totally isolated poor bastard up front
Thefoxinoz
Active Member
Game is on at 4.30am over here and as per normal I shall wake at about 7.30am and ask my wife, Yes or No, did we lose?
Depending on the answer depends on whether I sprightly get up or wallow in my misery in trying to decide if I should bother getting up!
Depending on the answer depends on whether I sprightly get up or wallow in my misery in trying to decide if I should bother getting up!
Joe_Fox
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Why ask? Just get the highlights on your phone when you wake up. It'll be either one of the worst three minutes of your life, or one of the best (or one the most meh in the event of a draw).
camberwell fox
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If the chuckle brothers don’t pick two up top for this then they need a cactus stuffing and gluing up their arses.
camberwell fox
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I do. It matters because putting Vardy up top on his own is about as effective as asking Boris Johnson to tell the truth.
It would be really nice if we played the correct formation for the situation AND had some application and desire.
Is that too much to ask?
camberwell fox
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Without his creativity we are double ****ed.
homer
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Yes I read that stuff too - if true, the **** needs chasing out of the city with burning torches and pitchforks
camberwell fox
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Missed all three games v them this season if true.
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Championship
| P | Pld | Pts | |
| 1 | Leicester | 44 | 94 |
| 2 | Leeds Utd | 45 | 90 |
| 3 | Ipswich | 44 | 90 |
| 4 | Southampton | 45 | 84 |
| 5 | Norwich City | 45 | 73 |
| 6 | West Brom | 45 | 72 |
| 7 | Hull City | 45 | 70 |
| 8 | Middlesbro | 45 | 66 |
| 9 | Coventry City | 44 | 64 |
| 10 | Preston | 44 | 63 |
| 11 | Bristol City | 45 | 62 |
| 12 | Cardiff City | 45 | 62 |
| 13 | Swansea City | 45 | 57 |
| 14 | Watford | 45 | 56 |
| 15 | Sunderland | 45 | 56 |
| 16 | Millwall | 45 | 56 |
| 17 | QPR | 45 | 53 |
| 18 | Stoke City | 45 | 53 |
| 19 | Blackburn | 45 | 50 |
| 20 | Sheffield W | 45 | 50 |
| 21 | Plymouth | 45 | 48 |
| 22 | Birmingham | 45 | 47 |
| 23 | Huddersfield | 45 | 45 |
| 24 | Rotherham Utd | 45 | 24 |
