Everton-Newcastle is a match valid for the 33rd day of the Premier League and is played on Thursday at 8:45 pm: TV, lineups, predictions.
Newcastle set the record straight last Sunday, scrambling Tottenham 6-1 at St James’ Park and clinching the direct clash for a Champions League spot. It was a stunning show of strength by the Magpies, who after just twenty minutes of play were already ahead by five goals, equaling a record that belonged to Manchester City.
Eddie Howe’s team thus proved that the very heavy defeat they had suffered seven days earlier at home to Aston Villa (3-0) was just an accident of the road and nothing more. The Bianconeri immediately reared their heads again: they came down like an avalanche on Spurs, causing the exoneration of Antonio Conte’s former deputy, Cristian Stellini, and exacerbating the crisis of the Londoners, who have now slipped even to sixth position. A victory, the sixth in the last seven games, that brings Newcastle significantly closer to their fourth-place goal. Wilson and his teammates now have the same points as Manchester United, 59, but most importantly, they are +6 from Tottenham, with one match still to go. The erratic performance of last February, in short, was only a parenthesis.
Everton is in trouble again
And the fans are not in their skin, anticipating a return to the most prestigious international competition after two decades of total darkness, in which they also had to deal with a couple of painful relegations to the Championship.
Dyche
In the lower division there is a serious risk of ending up Everton, which Newcastle will visit in the midweek round. The Toffees have never won in their last five games, scraping together three draws, the last of which in the London away match with Crystal Palace. A 0-0 that does not at all reassure the aficionados of the Liverpool team, which has just been overtaken by Leicester – which it will face next Monday in a real salvation playoff – and ended up back in the relegation zone. The Sean Dyche effect, a coach who had started off on the right foot when he was called in last January to replace Frank Lampard, seems to have worn off. The former Burnley coach finds back two very important pawns like Onana and Doucouré and relies on Calvert-Lewin, who scored 5 goals in 7 matches with Newcastle.
The Prediction
Newcastle have won only once in their last ten visits to Goodison Park and in this midweek round they will face a team with the water at their throats, in the midst of a fight not to be relegated. But the resounding performance offered on Sunday with Tottenham tips the scales on the side of the Magpies, who cannot but be considered favorites. However, it cannot be ruled out that Everton will also manage to score at least one goal.
The probable lineups of Everton-Newcastle
- EVERTON (4-5-1): Pickford; Patterson, Keane, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Iwobi, Onana, Gueye, Doucouré, McNeil; Calvert-Lewin.
- NEWCASTLE (4-3-3): Pope; Trippier, Schar, Botman, Burn; Willock, Bruno Guimaraes, Longstaff; Murphy, Wilson, Joelinton.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-2
