Fans choice of Newcastle United team v Manchester United tonight
We asked fans the question, which 11 players would you pick in your Newcastle United team v Manchester United?
We put together a list of the 21 players who could potentially be selected for this game.
Rafa Benitez having made six changes at Liverpool and three against Watford, so potentially set to make some more tonight in the busy festive programme of matches.
What though do the Newcastle fans see as the best eleven to play today?
The supporters appearing to go for a 4-4-1-1 formation as opposed to Rafa’s recent five at the back preference.
Nine of the choices getting 82% fan support or higher.
Whilst the slightly more contentious spots see Kenedy (62%) selected on the left and Yoshinori Muto (57%) as the main support to Salomon Rondon.
As for those who missed out,Christian Atsu (42%) and Ayoze Perez (40%) scored highest.
This is how the team would look based on the Newcastle fan votes (percentage support for all players below):
Here is the percentage (rounded up or down to nearest whole number) support for each Newcastle player from the thousands of votes cast:
98% Salomon Rondon
96% Martin Dubravka
95% Jamaal Lascelles
93% Matt Ritchie
92% Paul Dummett
91% Fabian Schar
91% DeAndre Yedlin
86% Jonjo Shelvey
82% Mohamed Diame
62% Kenedy
57% Yoshinori Muto
42% Christian Atsu
40% Ayoze Perez
20% Jacob Murphy
17% Sean Longstaff
15% Isaac Hayden
9% Javier Manquillo
4% Joselu
2% Freddie Woodman
2% Rob Elliot
2% Achraf Lazaar
Newcastle United v Man Utd Match Betting:
Newcastle United win 19/4 – Draw 16/5 – Man Utd win 11/20
Rondon to score first goal 8/1 – NUFC win 1-0 17/1 – Newcastle to score in both halves 17/4
All Newcastle United v Man Utd betting HERE
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