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Newcastle United vs Arsenal

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: St. James’ Park

Date:  2nd November 2024

Kick-off time – 12:30 GMT

Newcastle United will look to return to winning ways in the Premier League when they welcome Arsenal to St. James Park this Saturday.

The Magpies come into this game on the back of two consecutive losses in the league. The most recent of those losses, which came in a 2-1 loss to Chelsea on Sunday, saw Eddie Howe’s side lose back-to-back Premier League matches for the first time since January. On top of that, they’ve now gone five consecutive league fixtures without a win (D2, L3).

However, they did at least finally end a run of more than seven hours without scoring from open play and also followed that up with a 2-0 win over Chelsea in the Carabao Cup in midweek. Also, with only one loss at home since Manchester City beat them in January (W6, D5), Magpies fans might not be too discouraged just yet.

Yet, after keeping just one clean sheet in their last six such fixtures (W3, D2, L1), they will likely need their forwards to fire against Arsenal, with each of the last five H2Hs here won ‘to nil’ by the side scoring first (W2, L3).

Meanwhile, Arsenal will look to follow up their impressive 3-0 midweek win over Preston in the Carabao Cup with another solid performance here.

The Gunners kept their title charge alive last weekend when they held Liverpool to a 2-2 draw. Mikel Arteta’s side now sit a concerning five points behind leaders Man City, so they know there is no room for mistakes here if they want to remain in the title race.

However, injuries to key players is threatening to ruin their season, with defender Gabriel Magalhães the latest player to suffer an injury. They will travel to Newcastle looking to avoid three straight winless Premier League road games for the first time this calendar year (D1, L1).

Encouragement could come from winning four of the last six away H2Hs (L2) in a fixture that hasn’t produced a draw at St James’ Park since 2011 (Arsenal: W8, L3)

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Premier League Fixtures:

February 3, 2025
Chelsea 21:00 West Ham United
February 12, 2025
Everton 20:30 Liverpool
February 14, 2025
Brighton & Hov… 21:00 Chelsea
February 15, 2025
Leicester City 13:30 Arsenal
Aston Villa 16:00 Ipswich Town
Fulham 16:00 Nottingham Forest
Manchester City 16:00 Newcastle United
Southampton 16:00 AFC Bournemouth
West Ham United 16:00 Brentford
Crystal Palace 18:30 Everton
February 16, 2025
Liverpool 15:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Tottenham Hotspur 17:30 Manchester United
February 21, 2025
Leicester City 21:00 Brentford
February 22, 2025
Everton 13:30 Manchester United
Fulham 16:00 Crystal Palace
Southampton 16:00 Brighton & Hov…
Arsenal 16:00 West Ham United
Ipswich Town 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Aston Villa 18:30 Chelsea

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 23 17 5 1 56 21 +35 56
2 Arsenal 24 14 8 2 49 22 +27 50
3 Nottingham Forest 24 14 5 5 40 27 +13 47
4 Manchester City 24 12 5 7 48 35 +13 41
5 Newcastle United 24 12 5 7 42 29 +13 41
6 Chelsea 23 11 7 5 45 30 +15 40
7 AFC Bournemouth 24 11 7 6 41 28 +13 40
8 Aston Villa 24 10 7 7 34 37 -3 37
9 Fulham 24 9 9 6 36 32 +4 36
10 Brighton & Hov… 24 8 10 6 35 38 -3 34
11 Brentford 24 9 4 11 42 42 +0 31
12 Crystal Palace 24 7 9 8 28 30 -2 30
13 Manchester United 24 8 5 11 28 34 -6 29
14 Tottenham Hotspur 24 8 3 13 48 37 +11 27
15 West Ham United 23 7 6 10 28 44 -16 27
16 Everton 23 6 8 9 23 28 -5 26
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers 24 5 4 15 34 52 -18 19
18 Leicester City 24 4 5 15 25 53 -28 17
19 Ipswich Town 24 3 7 14 22 49 -27 16
20 Southampton 24 2 3 19 18 54 -36 9

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