Can Newcastle maintain their decades-long home dominance over high-flying Bees?

Newcastle United welcome in-form Brentford to St James’ Park for Saturday’s Premier League contest.

The Magpies crashed out of the Carabao Cup in the semifinals after they suffered a 3-1 second-leg defeat to Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday night (losing 5-1 on aggregate).

Eddie Howe’s side also tasted defeat in their last Premier League outing, losing 4-1 to Liverpool last weekend.

Brentford secured a shocking 1-0 victory with 10 men over Aston Villa last time out in the Premier League, and they currently sit seventh in the PL standings.

Match preview

Newcastle United have won nine of their last 10 home games against Brentford in all competitions (D1) since losing their first-ever meeting in September 1934.

Brentford have won two of their last three league games against Newcastle (L1), having failed to win any of their previous 10 (D1 L9).

The Bees are looking to complete their second ever league double over Newcastle, previously doing so in the 1934/35 second-tier campaign.

There have been an average of 4.1 goals per game in Premier League meetings between Brentford and Newcastle (37 goals in 9 games), the highest ratio of any fixture to have been played as many times.

Howe’s side have lost their last two Premier League games, their fifth different run of consecutive defeats in the last two seasons. The Magpies haven’t lost more on the bounce since December/January in the 2023/24 season (4).

London teams have only won four of their 29 Premier League visits to Newcastle since Eddie Howe took charge of the Magpies (D5 L20). Since Howe’s first game – a home match against Brentford – Newcastle have won more home Premier League games against London sides than anyone else (20).

Across the last eight Premier League matchdays, only Arsenal (17) have won more points than Brentford (16), with the Bees also having the joint-best defence in that time (7 goals conceded).

Dango Outtara netted his 13th Premier League goal in Brentford’s 1-0 win over Aston Villa, and he is looking to score in consecutive games for the first time. His next appearance will be his 100th in the competition, with Burkina Faso becoming the 85th different country to see a player reach treble figures for games.

Team news

Newcastle United

Anthony Gordon was forced off with a hamstring injury in midweek’s Carabao Cup loss to Man City, and he’s unavailable.

Gordon joins Joelinton, Tino Livramento, Fabian Schar and Emil Krafth in the host’s infirmary, while Bruno Guimaraes and Lewis Miley will be assessed ahead of kickoff.

Brentford

Fabio Carvalho, Antoni Milambo and Josh Dasilva are sidelined with injuries, while Kevin Schade is suspended after he was sent off in the Villa’s victory.

Predicted line-ups

Newcastle United: Pope, Trippier, Thiaw, Botman, Burn, Willock, Tonali, Ramsey, Elanga, Wissa, Barnes.

Brentford: Kelleher, Kayode, Van den Berg, Collins, Henry, Yarmoliuk, Henderson, Jensen, Ouattara, Thiago, Lewis-Potter.