With there being only 4-5 games of the English premier
league left it was imperative for Newcastle to pick up there first premier
league win since the 6th of February (1st win in 8 games)
when they beat West Brom 1-0 thanks to a goal from Mitrovic. Strangely enough Rafa Benitez decided to not go with
Mitrovic (8 premier league goals) who has been effective for him since he took
over at Newcastle and opt with Cissѐ who at this point had only one premier
league to his name this season. Rafa talked about how his side had shown “passion
and commitment”. That was definitely on show last Saturday and they will need
the same today if they are going to defeat a Manchester City side who have
seemed to click since the return of Kevin De Bruyne from injury. Newcastle however
tend to before better at home then away with 5 of their 7 premier league wins
coming at the St James’ Park.
Beating Man
city will be a hard task for the magpies but they will be full of confidence
with their win against Swansea. In their last six meetings against each other
Newcastle have only beaten City once and that was away in the league cup in
2014. Newcastle will need to keep it tight tonight but with their only 2nd
clean sheet in 18 games coming on Saturday, all signs point to a Manchester
City win as they push to solidify a place in the top four.
Sunderland on
Song
Sunderland’s
win on Saturday over Norwich was a crushing and demoralising blow. The 3-0 win
drags Norwich right back in to the thick of the relegation fight. If they had
beaten Sunderland they could have gone seven points clear but now they are just
one point ahead. Advantage Sunderland as they have a game in hand and the
better goal difference (-18). Defoe is looking inspirational for Sam Allardyce.
He is a natural born goal scorer, a predator, a poacher a fox in a box he will
get you goals. They traded Jozy Altidore a player who had just one premier league
goal to his name in two and a half seasons of English football for Defoe in the
January transfer window in 2015 he got goals last season and he is doing the
business again. Himself and Borini caused havoc for the Norwich defence. Out of
all the sides fighting relegation Defoe has the most goals this season with 13.
And lastly it
was disappointing to see Aston villa getting relegated at Man Utd but it has
seemed inevitable for the last couple of seasons. My only hope is that Aston
Villa’s owner Randy Leaner sells the club swiftly, as well as selling players
who don’t want to be there and bringing in new additions and a manager who has
vast experience of the Championship which is an extremely difficult league to
get promoted out of.
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