Newcastle will begin their new era as the wealthiest club in the world football this Sunday when they welcome Tottenham Hotspur to St James’ Park for an interesting Premier League match with kickoff at 18:30.
Newcastle fans have now something to be jubilant about with their patience for 14 years under controversial reign of Mike Ashley finally paying off as the Saudi-backed £300m takeover went through during the recent international break.
However, the hash reality remains that Newcastle are currently in the relegation zone and find themselves still searching for their first win of the new campaign having recorded three draws and four defeats in their opening seven matches.
Results just have not been coming for the Magpies who head into the match on the back of a 2-1 defeat to a resurgent Wolverhampton Wanderers with Hwang Hee-chan netting a brace for the Wolves while Jeff Hendrick’s effort proving to nothing but a consolation for the winless Magpies.
Steve Bruce’s side head into the match in a poor form having won none of their last eight matches across all competitions as well as are in poor home form as they have just managed three wins in their last 16 Premier League home matches and thus will be desperate to pick up three priceless points in the Sunday’s clash.
Meanwhile Tottenham opened the 2021/22 season strongly claiming three wins in their first three matches which left them at top of the standings at the time but a tally of three subsequent top-flight defeats in September saw them drop in form and rankings.
However, their 5-1 thumping of NS Mura in the Europa Conference League helped boost the morale within the Lilywhites, which produced positive results in the Premier League for Nuno Espirito Santo’s side who boast a 2-1 success over Aston Villa in their last match.
Tottenham now head into the match in a good form having won three, drawn one and lost two of their last six matches across all competitions and will be looking to keep their new momentum going with a win in the Sunday’s clash.
Newcastle vs Tottenham head to head
Both sides have met in 55 occasions since 1993 with Tottenham holding a slender advantage of 24 victories while Newcastle have claimed 23 victories and there have been eight draws.
- Newcastle 2-2 Tottenham 04/04/21
- Tottenham 1-1 Newcastle 27/09/20
- Newcastle 1-3 Tottenham 15/07/20
- Tottenham 0-1 Newcastle 25/08/19
- Tottenham 1-0 Newcastle 02/02/19
Home
- Wolverhampton 2-1 Newcastle
- Watford 1-1 Newcastle
- Newcastle 1-1 Leeds
- Man United 4-1 Newcastle
- Newcastle 2-2 Southampton
Away
- Tottenham 2-1 Aston Villa
- Tottenham 5-1 NS Mura
- Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham
- Wolves 2-3 Tottenham (AP)
- Tottenham 0-3 Chelsea
Newcastle team news
Newcastle will be without a host of key players including Martin Dubravka, Paul Dummett, Jonjo Shelvey, Callum Wilson, Freddie Woodman and Jamaal Lascelles due to injuries.
Tottenham team news
Tottenham will be without Steven Bergwijn and Ryan Sessegnon due to injuries.
Prediction and odds
- Draw
- Away win
- Both sides to score
