On Wednesday, September 27, from 10:00 p.m. on the street James’ Park and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 2.

Newcastle United and Manchester City meet in a one-legged EFL Cup third-round derby, although both teams are expected to field a large number of starting XIs, with the winner progressing to the last eight of the competition (if tied, penalties will only be played 30 minutes of extra time will be played in the semi-finals and final).

Newcastle United, 8th in the Premier League with nine points from six matches, come off the back of two straight league wins, 1-0 at home to Brentford and 8-0 away to Sheffield United (a match in which for the first time in the history of the Premier League, one team had eight different scorers).

Meanwhile, Eddie Howe’s side returned to the Champions League after a 20-year absence midway through last week, managing to leave the San Siro unbeaten with a 0-0 draw with AC Milan in Group F.

The Cofenele made several major changes this summer, bringing in Sandro Tonali from AC Milan (€64m), Harvey Barnes from Leicester (€44m) and Tino Livramento from Southampton (€37.2m) . the departures of Allan Saint-Maximin to Al Ahly and Chris Wood to Nottingham Forest.

The league leaders are Manchester City, who have 18 points from the maximum possible, and in the last stage of the Premier League, they won at home against Nottingham Forest with a score of 2-0.

Josep Guardiola’s team, in turn, played in the Champions League a week ago when they won at home against Crvena Zvezda (the only setback for the “townsmen” came at the very opening of the season, when they lost the FA Super Cup 0-0 after 90 minutes and 1-4 after penalty, with Arsenal).

This summer, Wolverhampton’s Mateus Núñez (€62m), Rennes’ Jeremy Doku (€60m), Chelsea’s Mateo Kovacic (€29m) and RB Leipzig’s Josko Guardiol (€90m) , as well as the most important departures were Aymeric Laporte to Al-Nassr-Riyadh (€27.5 million) and Cole Palmer to Chelsea (€47 million).

The last time these two teams met was on August 19, in the 2nd round of the current Premier League season, when Manchester City beat Newcastle United 1-0 at home, with a goal from Julián Alvarez in the 31st minute (townsmen » won eight of the last ten direct matches, the other two were draws).

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