📏 Form Guide

Newcastle United

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Newcastle United will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 1-2 EFL Cup success vs Liverpool.

In that match, Newcastle United had 34% possession and 17 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. For Newcastle United, goals were scored by Dan Burn (45') and Alexander Isak (52'). Liverpool had 7 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Federico Chiesa (94') was the scorer for Liverpool.

Fixtures featuring Newcastle United have tended to be lively encounters lately with a lot of goalmouth action expected. Over their past 6 clashes, a grand total of 20 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 8 of them being chalked up by Newcastle United. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be continued into this match, however.

Brentford

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Brentford go into this game after a 1-2 Premier League win to beat Bournemouth in their last outing.

In that game, Brentford had 41% possession and 10 shots at goal with 4 on target. For Brentford, goals were scored by Vitaly Janelt (17' Own goal), Yoane Wissa (30') and Christian Nørgaard (71'). Bournemouth got 17 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target.

During their 6 latest matches, Thomas Frank's Brentford have seen their efforts on goal rewarded 8 times - giving them the goals scored per game average of 1.33.

Going into this encounter, Brentford are unbeaten in their previous 6 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

A review of their past head to head clashes going back to 08/10/2022 shows that Newcastle United have won 5 of these & Brentford 1, with the number of drawn matches being 0.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 26 in total at an average of 4.33 goals per meeting.

📰 Team News: Newcastle United

Sven Botman (Knee surgery), Jamaal Lascelles (Fitness) and Lewis Hall (Ankle surgery) will not be taking part for Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe.

In our view, The Magpies will probably line up in a 4-3-3 system in the match with Nick Pope, Kieran Trippier, Fabian Schaer, Daniel Burn, Valentino Livramento, Bruno Guimaraes, Sandro Tonali, Joelinton, Jacob Murphy, Alexander Isak and Harvey Barnes.

📰 Team News: Brentford

Brentford boss Thomas Frank has some current player fitness concerns. Gustavo Nunes (Back injury), Rico Henry (Fitness) and Fábio Carvalho (Shoulder injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

There’s a good chance that The Bees could decide to play in a 4-3-3 system by sending out Mark Flekken, K. Vassbakk Ajer, Nathan Collins, Ethan Pinnock, Keane Lewis-Potter, Christian Noergaard, Vitaly Janelt, Mikkel Damsgaard, Bryan Mbeumo, Yoane Wissa and Kevin Schade.

💡 Prediction

In this game, Brentford will do really well to score against a Newcastle United lineup who seem set to do really well if they play to their full potential.

We are predicting a very comfortable 3-0 victory for Newcastle United at the end of the game.

Peter Guest, 18:03 02/04/2025