Man Utd v Newcastle Official Match Thread

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Man Utd have lost four Barclays Premier League games this season, only one fewer than the whole of 2012-13 (5).

Papiss Cisse scored on both trips to Old Trafford in all competitions last season (one league, one Capital One Cup).

Jonny Evans has scored in the last two Barclays Premier League meetings between Man Utd and Newcastle and also netted an own goal at Old Trafford in this fixture last season.

Newcastle have won none of their last 29 league visits to Old Trafford, losing 21.

Patrice Evra has scored in the last two meetings between Newcastle and Man Utd.

Newcastle United have won just one and lost 15 of their last 21 Premier League matches against Manchester United.

Robin van Persie has scored six goals in his last seven Premier League starts against the Magpies.

If Van Persie does not recover from injury this will be the first time Man Utd have played a league game without both him and Wayne Rooney since the Dutchman arrived (Rooney is suspended).

Manchester United have only won five of their last 11 Premier League home games (L4 D2).

The Red Devils have not lost successive Premier League home games since May 2002.

Man Utd have scored only eight goals in seven Premier League home games this season, fewer than bottom side Sunderland (9).

Location: Old Trafford


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Team News & Manager Quotes: Man Utd

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Rafael Vidic Evans Evra
Nani Jones Cleverley Januzaj
V.Persie
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Lindegaard, Rio, Anderson, Young Welbeck, Valencia, Zaha

David Moyes will take a late check on Shinji Kagawa before finalising his line-up. Kagawa is suffering from a sickness bug which affected him in midweek but with Wayne Rooney missing through suspension, United could do with the Japan star being available. Robin van Persie (groin) has been missing for a fortnight and Moyes is refusing to put a timescale on the striker's return.

David Moyes: "We will need to play some great football and win an awful lot of games in the run-in if we are going to be in there and around it at the end of the season."



Newcastle

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Debuchy Coloccini Williamson Santon
Anita Tioté
Sissoko Cabaye Remy
Gouffran


Newcastle boss Alan Pardew will make a late check on striker Papiss Cisse ahead of the trip to Manchester United. The Senegal international missed Wednesday night's 3-0 defeat at Swansea with a heel problem and will be assessed on Friday. However, midfielder Hatem Ben Arfa, who did not travel to the Liberty Stadium because of illness, reported for training on Thursday and is expected to be available at Old Trafford.

Alan Pardew: "I think everybody knew that the first person to follow Alex, it was going to be very, very difficult. But he's a strong man and I think he can handle it, and there's a long, long way to go. I think they had gone 12 games unbeaten up until that game, so it's not as if there's a crisis there. They have lost a game, which as I say, anybody can do in the Premier League at the moment. Their reaction is going to be a little bit larger than ours, so there's going to be a little bit of pressure on them and we have got to try to capitalise on that and make it difficult for them."



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