It was a horrible start to the Nottingham forest for the Angel Postcoglou boss.
The Australian did not win any of his six games in charge and felt the anger of the city’s earth crowd in the middle of the week, being serenade with songs of “You get limited in the morning” during the 3-2 Europa League defeat against Midtjylland.
Forest was beaten by Sunderland at the Newcastle Rivaux in his last Premier League match and will better hope for St James’ Park against a Newcastle team that bounced from disappointment against Arsenal with a victory in the Champions League in the middle of the week.
Eddie Howe’s team won 4-0 at Union SG with Anthony Gordon marking twice on site.
Newcastle Team News
Howe has appointed an unchanged team of the one who performed well in Belgium.
This means that Malick Thiaw continues alongside Sven Botman at the heart of the defense.
Newcastle: Pope; Trippier, Botman, Thiaw, Burn; Tonali, Guimaraes, Jelinton; Elaga, Gordon, Woltemade
News from Nottingham Forest Team News
Postcoglou made four modifications to the team that lost in the middle of the week.
To come Chris Wood, Ryan Yaates, Jair Cunha and Nicolo Savona for Igor Jesus, Ibrahim Sangare, Callum Hudson-Odoi and the injured Murillo.
Forest of Nottingham: Salts, Savona, Milenkovic, Morato, Williams, Ndoye; Anderson, Gibbs-White, Yates, Jair Cunha; Drink
