Match Odds bet365 match odds Sterling to score first 9/2, both sides to score City to win 13/8
Manchester City will move within one point of Liverpool with victory over Newcastle United on Tuesday night.
Liverpool do not play until Wednesday, presenting the champions with an opportunity to steal a march on the league leaders.
If City come away from St James Park with all three points, as they are heavily tipped to do, that would leave Jurgen Klopp’s men needing to beat Leicester City 24 hours later to restore their four-point advantage.
Ironically, Leicester City were the last team to beat Man City in the league.
Since that defeat, City have won eight matches on the bounce, scoring 33 goals and breaching the 100-goal mark for the season in all competitions in the process.
For Newcastle United, attentions now turns to the fight for survival without the distraction of cup competitions
The Magpies were dumped out of the FA Cup by Watford on Saturday.
Manager Rafa Benitez has always insisted that cup assignments were an unwelcome distraction for a club battling relegation.
This view often found expression in his team selections, with players on the fringes of the first team deployed for cup duty and regulars kept in reserve for the fight to preserve the club's Premier League status.
Newcastle have taken four points from the last 15 on offer. They beat fellow strugglers Cardiff City 3-0 last time out to move two points clear of the relegation zone.
City, who won the reverse fixture 2-1, are odds-on favourites to complete the double on the Magpies for what would be a fifth consecutive league win.
TEAM NEWS
Rafa Benitez is set to make some changes to the side that lost to Watford on Saturday.
Salomon Rondon, Ayoze Perez, Christian Atsu, DeAndre Yeldin and goalkeeper Martin Dubravka are all expected to be restored to the starting line-up.
And in the event Mo Diame fails to recover from his injury problem Sean Longstaff is tipped to be the beneficiary of the midfielder’s absence.
Pep Guardiola is expected to continue with his rotation policy as the City boss juggles his resources to cope with a hectic fixture schedule.
Sergio Aguero and David Silva came on as second-half substitutes during the 5-0 FA Cup win over Burnley.
Raheem Sterling, Leroy Sane and Aymeric Laporte, unused substitutes on Saturday, are all in line for recalls against Newcastle United.
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Premier League: Newcastle United v Manchester City
Match Odds bet365 match odds Sterling to score first 9/2, both sides to score City to win 13/8
Manchester City will move within one point of Liverpool with victory over Newcastle United on Tuesday night.
Liverpool do not play until Wednesday, presenting the champions with an opportunity to steal a march on the league leaders.
If City come away from St James Park with all three points, as they are heavily tipped to do, that would leave Jurgen Klopp’s men needing to beat Leicester City 24 hours later to restore their four-point advantage.
Ironically, Leicester City were the last team to beat Man City in the league.
Since that defeat, City have won eight matches on the bounce, scoring 33 goals and breaching the 100-goal mark for the season in all competitions in the process.
For Newcastle United, attentions now turns to the fight for survival without the distraction of cup competitions
The Magpies were dumped out of the FA Cup by Watford on Saturday.
Manager Rafa Benitez has always insisted that cup assignments were an unwelcome distraction for a club battling relegation.
This view often found expression in his team selections, with players on the fringes of the first team deployed for cup duty and regulars kept in reserve for the fight to preserve the club's Premier League status.
Newcastle have taken four points from the last 15 on offer. They beat fellow strugglers Cardiff City 3-0 last time out to move two points clear of the relegation zone.
City, who won the reverse fixture 2-1, are odds-on favourites to complete the double on the Magpies for what would be a fifth consecutive league win.
TEAM NEWS
Rafa Benitez is set to make some changes to the side that lost to Watford on Saturday.
Salomon Rondon, Ayoze Perez, Christian Atsu, DeAndre Yeldin and goalkeeper Martin Dubravka are all expected to be restored to the starting line-up.
And in the event Mo Diame fails to recover from his injury problem Sean Longstaff is tipped to be the beneficiary of the midfielder’s absence.
Pep Guardiola is expected to continue with his rotation policy as the City boss juggles his resources to cope with a hectic fixture schedule.
Sergio Aguero and David Silva came on as second-half substitutes during the 5-0 FA Cup win over Burnley.
Raheem Sterling, Leroy Sane and Aymeric Laporte, unused substitutes on Saturday, are all in line for recalls against Newcastle United.
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