National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Newcastle United or Manchester City that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Newcastle United form and stats
Last season, Newcastle United's Carabao Cup journey ended in the final.Newcastle United must be fairly happy with 6 points from their first three Premier League games here at St. James' Park.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Loris Karius not having conceded a league goal in 200 minutes.
A strong away win for Newcastle United against Sheffield United the last match, as Botman, Isak, Gordon, Wilson, Longstaff, Almirón, Guimarães and Burn were on target. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Newcastle played a great game against Sheffield United and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. Gordon, who plays in attack, was the best performer for the team in that fixture, collecting a rating of 9.63 (out of 10). Gordon scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
In the fixture before, 0-0 away to Milan (Champions League).
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Newcastle United, as the Premier League home game vs Burnley is only three days away.
Newcastle United can score goals in their home matches. After 3 league matches they have found the net 7 times.
Manchester City form and stats
They also participated in Carabao Cup last season. This ended in the quarter-finals.Manchester City are on a winning streak away after three games, as mentioned below. A maximum 9 points in the bag from 3 travels in the Premier League.
City go into this game after a win, the home game against Nottingham Forest that ended 2-0. Midfielder Foden was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.35. Foden scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 49 successful passes (of 51 total).
A home victory as anticipated against Crvena Zvezda before that, in the Champions League.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Manchester City manager i Sala as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Manchester City create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 8 goals in 3 travels. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (2 so far).
Head 2 Head
Manchester City have put together a sequence of 10 consecutive games without defeat (8-2-0) when playing Newcastle.Top Goalscorers
  E. Haaland 8 goals |   C. Wilson 4 goals |  A. Isak 3 goals |
Newcastle United missing players
Manchester City missing players
| Newcastle United | Manchester City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 18 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 5 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | ||
| 60 | 30 | Scored | S | 19 | 52 | ||
| 29 | 12 | Conceded | C | 9 | 17 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 84% | ||
| 68% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 60% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 9% | 20% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | ||
| 64% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 73% | 60% | ||
| 24% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 9% | 4% | ||
| 5.5 | 6.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.8 | 5.8 | ||
| 4.6 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 3.6 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.3 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 14.4 | 16.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15 | 14.9 | ||
| 5.7 | 6.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.5 | 6.3 | ||
| 42% | 41% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 33% | ||
| 11.8 | 9.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.9 | 9.1 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Manchester City | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 13 | 18 |
| 2 | Liverpool | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 16 |
| 3 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 15 |
| 4 | Tottenham Hotspur | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| 5 | Arsenal | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14 |
| 6 | Aston Villa | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 12 |
| 7 | West Ham United | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| 8 | Newcastle United | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 9 |
| 9 | Manchester United | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 9 |
| 10 | Crystal Palace | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 8 |
| 11 | Fulham | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 12 | Nottingham Forest | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 7 |
| 13 | Brentford | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 14 | Chelsea | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 5 |
| 15 | Everton | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -5 | 4 |
| 16 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -6 | 4 |
| 17 | AFC Bournemouth | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -6 | 3 |
| 18 | Luton Town | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | -8 | 1 |
| 19 | Burnley | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -9 | 1 |
| 20 | Sheffield United | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -12 | 1 |
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