Manchester United may find themselves eight points behind
leaders Arsenal by the time this tea-time kick-off gets
underway.
Kevin Keegan would just "love it", if he could gain his first
win in six league and cup games of his current spell in charge,
"against them".
United lost their last league game, home to Manchester rivals
City, but have not experienced successive defeats in 107 Premier
League outings, when beaten away to Norwich and Everton on 9 and 20
April 2005 respectively.
The Magpies are without a win in nine, and are experiencing
their worst ever season in the Premier League. But they have never
been relegated from this league.
United ran riot against a hapless Newcastle in the reverse
fixture in January with six unanswered second half goals, which
included Cristiano Ronaldo's first hat-trick for the Red
Devils.
Newcastle (from): Given, Harper, Forster, Beye,
N'Zogbia, Enrique, Cacapa, Taylor, Faye, Edgar, Butt, Smith,
Milner, Duff, Barton, LuaLua, Owen, Viduka, Ameobi, Carroll.
Man Utd (from): Van der Sar, Brown, Ferdinand,
Vidic, Evra, Ronaldo, Anderson, Scholes, Hargreaves, Giggs, Rooney,
Tevez, Kuszczak, Saha, Carrick, Nani, O'Shea, Fletcher, Park,
Simpson.
