Newcastle v Nottingham Forest: Confirmed line-ups as desperate Postecoglou rings the changes
Find out all the team news from St James' Park as Newcastle host Nottingham Forest
It has been an awful start to life at Nottingham Forest for boss Ange Postecoglou.
The Australian has failed to win any of his six games in charge and felt the wrath of the City Ground crowd in midweek, being serenaded with chants of “you’re getting sacked in the morning” during the 3-2 Europa League defeat to Midtjylland.
Forest were beaten by Newcastle’s arch-rivals Sunderland in their last Premier League game and will hope for better at St James’ Park against a Newcastle side who bounced back from disappointment against Arsenal with a Champions League victory in midweek.
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Eddie Howe’s side won 4-0 at Union SG with Anthony Gordon scoring twice from the spot.
Newcastle Team News
Howe named an unchanged team from the one that performed well in Belgium.
That means Malick Thiaw continues alongside Sven Botman at the heart of the defence.
Newcastle: Pope; Trippier, Botman, Thiaw, Burn; Tonali, Guimaraes, Joelinton; Elanga, Gordon, Woltemade
Nottingham Forest Team News
Postecoglou made four changes to the team that lost in midweek.
In come Chris Wood, Ryan Yates, Jair Cunha and Nicolo Savona for Igor Jesus, Ibrahim Sangare, Callum Hudson-Odoi and the injured Murillo.
Nottingham Forest: Sels, Savona, Milenkovic, Morato, Williams, Ndoye; Anderson, Gibbs-White, Yates, Jair Cunha; Wood