Coventry City vs Newcastle United - prediction, team news, lineups

Back-to-back Premier League wins volition beryllium connected the docket for some Coventry City and Newcastle United successful Monday's top-flight offering astatine the CBS Arena.

The Sky Blues ended a 25-year hold for a first-division triumph earlier the planetary break, stunning Nottingham Forest 1-0, portion the Magpies survived a second-half scare to borderline retired Hull City 2-1 3 weekends ago.

Match preview

Slain successful each of their archetypal 4 Premier League games of the 2026-27 play by an aggregate scoreline of 10-0, Coventry were fixed small accidental of making the 5th clip the charm erstwhile they visited an admittedly under-performing Nottingham Forest broadside connected September 19.

However, acknowledgment to Jay Dasilva's emphatic second-half decorativeness and dogged antiaircraft displays from Ethan Pinnock and Bobby Thomas successful particular, Coventry revelled successful their archetypal Premier League triumph since a Gordon Strachan-led broadside overcame Sunderland successful April 2001.

As good arsenic snapping four-game losing runs some successful each competitions and the apical formation alone, Coventry's daze occurrence astatine the City Ground lifted the Sky Blues disconnected the bottommost of the Premier League table, though they volition driblet backmost down to 20th if Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur some prime up points implicit the weekend.

Frank Lampard's men besides stay the division's lowest scorers with conscionable the solitary onslaught to their name, and the hosts' adjacent ngo is to extremity some their scoreless and losing streaks astatine the CBS Arena successful 2026-27.

Indeed, Coventry person been bested successful some of their Premier League location matches against Hull and Brighton & Hove Albion truthful acold this season, portion besides going down 3-1 to Aston Villa successful the EFL Cup to springiness them a dismal 0% grounds successful beforehand of their ain fans.

Newcastle's past distant time was acold little enjoyable than their hosts' - a 4-1 hammering astatine the hands of Leeds United - but Matthias Jaissle's Magpies got backmost connected track, conscionable about, connected the St James' Park turf.

Joe Willock and Lewis Hall's strikes wrong the opening 7 minutes proved capable to descend a spirited Hull side, who momentarily threatened a comeback through Mohamed-Ali Cho after Konstantinos Tzolakis kept retired Yoane Wissa's penalty.

The scoreline surely did not archer the afloat communicative for Newcastle, who gave up a whopping 22 shots to the Tigers successful gameweek five, but their visitors' wasteful finishing ensured that Jaissle's men would station their 4th triumph from six successful each tournaments.

The Magpies entered the planetary hiatus successful the apical fractional of the Premier League rankings acknowledgment to their dependable commencement nether Jaissle, whose broadside besides caput to the CBS Arena having scored successful each of their 3 distant matches crossed each tournaments successful 2026-27.

Furthermore, Newcastle tin boast a seven-game winning streak against Coventry - who past got the amended of the Magpies successful a 1999 Premier League clash - but Monday's gathering volition people their archetypal head-to-head since a 2010 Championship battle, won 4-1 by the men successful achromatic and white.

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Team News

Coventry should beryllium boosted by the instrumentality of close wing-back Milan van Ewijk (hamstring) for Monday's crippled aft the 26-year-old returned to grooming during the week, but Lampard whitethorn spot nary crushed to demote Caleb Yirenkyi to the seat conscionable yet.

Kaine Kesler-Hayden has besides battled backmost from his ain hamstring issue, but arsenic the Englishman has not featured successful immoderate capableness since May, helium ought to beryllium fixed much clip to physique his lucifer fittingness backmost up.

Haji Wright (quad), Luke Woolfenden (knee), Josh Eccles (calf) and Aurele Amenda (calf) are inactive connected the attraction table, portion Taiwo Awoniyi completes a three-game suspension pursuing his sending-off successful the Brighton battering.

As for Newcastle, Jaissle has revealed that helium expects "three oregon four" injured players to beryllium backmost successful contention for Monday's trip, including Joelinton (groin) and Nico Gonzalez (concussion).

Jaissle's comments besides suggest that astatine slightest 1 of Jacob Ramsey (thigh), Amar Dedic (hamstring), Anthony Elanga (unknown), Dan Burn (ankle), Will Osula (foot), Lewis Miley (knock) oregon Tino Livramento (unspecified) could marque the seat astatine least, but Ewen Jaouen (hamstring) has been ruled retired for 2 months.

Making much Magpies past earlier the planetary break, Harvey Barnes acceptable up some Hall and Willock's goals successful the triumph implicit Hull, the earliest a Newcastle subordinate has ever provided aggregate assists successful a Premier League game.

Coventry City imaginable starting lineup:

Rushworth; Mfuni, Pinnock, Thomas; Yirenkyi, Grimes, Onyeka, Dasilva; Rudoni, Mason-Clark; Thomas-Asante

Newcastle United imaginable starting lineup:

Hornicek; Miley, Thiaw, Botman, Hall; Gonzalez, Willock; Murphy, Fernandez-Pardo, Barnes; Wissa

We say: Coventry City 1-2 Newcastle United

Neither Coventry nor Newcastle would person wanted the lengthy planetary interruption to travel truthful soon aft morale-boosting triumphs, the intermission denying some teams the accidental to physique up a caput of steam.

However, the hosts' attacking deficiencies are apt to beryllium fatal against a much potent Magpies side, arsenic Lampard's losing tally astatine the CBS Arena continues.

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