Our last trip to Newcastle ended in a 2-1 defeat for the Blues with Rodwell grabbing a goal back after we went 2-0 down. When the two sides met earlier this season, a game filled with controversy resulted in a 2-2 draw. After having a goal ruled out for offside in the first half which was blatantly onside, the Blues went on to score another goal which wasn't given despite the ball appearing to cross the line.
Regarding injuries, it seems that no players that missed the 2-1 defeat to Chelsea at the weekend will be back in time for tomorrow. Moyes also stated that the Blues could be without Darron Gibson for a month following an injury he picked up against Wigan.
The Opposition
When it comes to the news of our opposition, Newcastle, I'm not expert. Therefore, I'll let Ed Harrison from Newcastle fan site NUFCBlog take over.
Newcastle have been hit with a long list of injuries this
season and those currently out are Ryan Taylor, Dan Gosling, Haris Vuckic,
Yohan Cabaye, Steven Taylor, Danny Simpson, Ben Arfa and Jonas Gutierrez, and
they will not play against Everton.
With the injuries and European competition we have been
unable to handle the extra games and our squad is simply too small, along with
some of our players, who have been fit, have not shown the form of last season.
And of course we have been without Steven Taylor, Yohan
Cabaye and Ben Arfa for a while now - and they are due back later this month.
And since early November we have lost eight of our last
ten league games and have just 7 points from the last 11 league games and we
are not in good shape in the league - it's our worst run ever in the Premier
League. Couple that with the antics of Demba Ba's advisers in the
last few days, and things are not too good at the club at the moment. But we are still hoping for our sixth home win of the
season tomorrow, although we have yet to win on the toad.
Our starting eleven for tomorrow will probably be the
following:
Krul
Perch Coloccini (captain) Williamson Santon
Tiote Anita Marveaux
Cisse Ba Obertan
In recent games Dutch International Anita has been
one of our best players, even though he's just 5'6" tall and Frenchmen
Gabby Obertan and Sylvain Marveaux have also started to show up well.
Demba Ba has scored half of our goals in the league this
season with 13 - and he scored a brace in our 7-3 walloping at Arsenal last
Sunday. As we said we still are hoping for all 3 points to help
us away from the relegation zone.
