Blackburn Rovers vs Newcastle United match banter
Posted on February 1st, 2012 | 196 Comments |
Date: 1st February 2012
Kick Off: 8.00pm
Referee: Phil Dowd.
Good evening Geordies and welcome to our regular “match banter” feature.
This evening sees us facing Blackburn Rovers for the fourth time this season, with the record so far being two wins to one in our favour, their one victory being in the League Cup with our two coming in the League and the FA. Cup respectively.
Despite being a troubled club with highly embittered fans, the Lancashire team come into this game on the back of two very creditable results, a 3-1 home win over our recent destroyers, Fulham, and a 1-1 away draw against Everton. So, I wouldn’t put too much store by our respective league positions. Though Blackburn are still bogged down in the relegation zone, currently they are third from bottom and making a good fist of fighting their way out, rather than languishing right at the very bottom for fairly long periods as was the case earlier in the season. On the other side of course we had an excellent start to the season, though our more recent form has been a little “hit and miss” of late.
But anyway, I won’t get too “bogged down” on all that stuff. Instead, I will give my usual reminder that for more “in depth” ruminations on this evening’s game, as well as all the usual stuff such as team news, stats, what the managers have been saying etc, I would recommend checking out UTD111’s match preview, which is excellent as always.
It only remains for me to say that I will be filling out the teamsheets below when they are available. Oh! and:
Howay the Lads!
Blackburn Rovers vs Newcastle United team sheets
Blackburn Rovers (4-5-1): Paul Robinson (G, C), Jason Lowe, Scott Dann, Gael Givet, Martin Olsson; Junior Hoilett, Radosav Petrovic, Steven Nzonzi, David Dunn, Morten Gamst Pedersen; Anthony Modeste.
Subs: Mark Bunn (G), Adam Henley, Grant Hanley, Simon Vukcevic, Mauro Formica, Ruben Rochina, Jordan Slew.
Newcastle United (4-4-2): Tim Krul (G), Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini (C), Davide Santon; Hatem Ben Arfa, Ryan Taylor, Danny Guthrie, Jonas Gutierrez, Shola Ameobi, Leon Best.
Subs: Rob Elliot (G), Shane Ferguson, James Perch, Mehdi Abeid, Dan Gosling, Gabriel Obertan, Peter Lovenkrands.
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