Burnley manager Vincent Kompany can continue utilising inverted full-backs against former club Manchester City in their FA Cup quarter-final tie says Arsenal icon Martin Keown.
03.03.2023 - 10:17 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Manchester City can cut the points gap at the top of the Premier League table to just two when hosting Newcastle United this weekend.
Arsenal winning easily against Everton on Wednesday extended their lead over City to five points, but Pep Guardiola's side can more than halve that deficit before Mikel Arteta's team play their weekend match. The visit of Newcastle is a difficult one on the face of it against the side sitting just three places behind them in the standings, but the beaten Carabao Cup finalists have seen their form dip since the World Cup break.
Eddie Howe's team have won just one of their last seven Premier League games since convincingly beating Leicester City on Boxing Day. Five of these fixtures ended in a draw as well as one defeat, which was their last league outing against Liverpool.
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Kick-off on Saturday lunchtime is set for 12:30pm GMT (7:30am ET; 4:30am PT).
BT Sport are broadcasting the City versus Newcastle match. Their coverage of the first Premier League fixture of the weekend begins at 11:30am, with subscribers able to stream the match via the BT Sport app and the BT Sport website. BT'S Early Kick-off show will air for half an hour from 10am.
Central defenders Aymeric Laporte and John Stones both remain doubts ahead of this match after missing again missing out in midweek due to illness and injury, respectively. Stefan Ortega is more of a doubt to feature in the squad, though, after being forced off against Bristol City with a hand injury.
For Newcastle, Bruno Guimaraes is a pre-match injury doubt after twisting his ankle during the Carabao Cup final, while defender Emil Krafth remains
Burnley manager Vincent Kompany can continue utilising inverted full-backs against former club Manchester City in their FA Cup quarter-final tie says Arsenal icon Martin Keown.
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the trauma of that night in Kyiv, the embarrassment, the anguish and months of regret and recriminations that followed. He knows he will always be associated with losing Liverpool a Champions League final against Real Madrid but this is his shot at redemption. The 29-year-old will start for Newcastle United in this weekend’s Carabao Cup final against Manchester United, two years since he last played a competitive game and just two months after the Newcastle hierarchy almost released him at the end of a short-term contract, signed as a free agent, when Karl Darlow injured his ankle in September.
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