Newcastle United welcome strong Everton to St James’ Park

Newcastle United off the back of a heavy defeat will welcome Carlo Ancelotti’s men in what looks like to be a tough test for both sides.

Newcastle United sit in tenth place on 25 points with the Toffees three points behind the Magpies and sit 13th in the league.

Last time out for Newcastle, it was a complete disaster with Manchester United outclassing the Magpies and winning 4-1 in the process. Goals from Marcus Rashford, Mason Greenwood and Anthony Martial cancelled out Matty Longstaff’s goal to give United a comfortable win.

Everton started the new Carlo Ancelotti era with a win under their new manager. Dominic Calvert-Lewin was on target as he poached a header into the back of the net to give Everton the 1-0 win.

Team news

Newcastle defender Javier Manquillo has a calf muscle problem and will be assessed ahead of Saturday’s game.

Paul Dummett is another doubt, because of a groin injury, while Ki Sung-yueng may remain unavailable due to illness.

Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti has confirmed he will make numerous changes to the starting line-up in order to protect his players from injuries.

Theo Walcott, Michael Keane, Tom Davies and Leighton Baines could all be recalled, but Alex Iwobi remains out.

Newcastle United boss Steve Bruce spoke to the press after the 4-1 defeat at Old Trafford.

“We’ve gifted it. That’s the biggest disappointment. You can’t make that many mistakes and expect to get away with it and we’ve been punished.”

“In the last two or three months the reason why we’ve got a few results is the way we’ve defended and given nothing away. Today we’ve made far too many individual errors and once you do that against quality opposition you’re going to get punished.”

Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti saluted the collective desire and application of his team and urged the Blues to channel their competitive fire into another winning performance at Newcastle United on Saturday

“The spirit of the team, I have really enjoyed,” Ancelotti said. Everton is a family. I saw the spirit of the players in the game against Burnley and in the training sessions. We have to keep the same spirit [against Newcastle]. [In future games] We want to be more efficient, to give good passes, to make good choices.

“We missed some counter-attacks where we could be more dangerous, but they were the only details where we have to improve. For everyone it was important to win, for the Club, the players for the supporters. We want the points to move up the table.”

Head-to-head

Newcastle, who came from two goals down to win 3-2 in last season’s corresponding fixture, have not won back-to-back league games against Everton since December 2002.

Everton have won on four of their past six Premier League visits to Newcastle.