📊 Form Guide

Newcastle United

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Newcastle United will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 2-1 Premier League loss in their previous game against Manchester City.

In that game, Newcastle United had 45% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. The only player to score for Newcastle United was Lewis Hall (22'). Manchester City had 15 shots at goal with 7 on target. Nico O'Reilly (14', 27') scored for Manchester City.

Newcastle United have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets recently, although they have also managed to score goals themselves. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Newcastle United have been punished defensively in 6 of them while also managing to get on the scoresheet in 6 of those matches.

Qarabağ

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Illustrating their predisposition for high-scoring encounters, we’ve had goals 20 times in the previous six matches in which Qarabağ have played, yielding an average of 3.33 goals per meeting. Their opponents have got 15 of this grand total. That sort of pattern might not follow through into this match, though.

📋 Team News: Newcastle United

Lewis Miley (Dead leg), Yoane Wissa (Bruised knee), Tino Livramento (Hamstring injury) and Fabian Schär (Broken ankle) are not available for Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe. Suspended players who are serving a ban for this game are Malick Thiaw, Emil Krafth and Mark Gillespie.

It’s our opinion that The Magpies will probably employ a 4-1-4-1 formation for this game with Aaron Ramsdale, Kieran Trippier, Sven Botman, Daniel Burn, Alex Murphy, Sandro Tonali, Jacob Murphy, Joseph Willock, Joelinton, Harvey Barnes and William Osula.

📋 Team News: Qarabağ

We are inclined to think that Atlılar could decide to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting Mateusz Kochalski, Matheus Silva, Badavi Huseynov, Kevin Medina, Elvin Jafarquliyev, Pedro Bicalho, Marko Jankovic, Leandro Andrade, Jonathan Montiel, Abdellah Zoubir and Camilo Duran.

✨ Prediction

Our assessment is that Newcastle United will most probably be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

At the other end, Qarabağ could well struggle to find the back of the net but we do fancy them converting at least once.

We can therefore see a fairly comfortable 3-1 victory for Newcastle United come full-time.

Renata Leite, 15:00 24/02/2026