Alan Pardew returns to the dugout tonight at the Emirates for the live televised game against Champions League hopefuls Arsenal and has named the following side;
Loic Remy returns to lead the front-line after coming off from the bench to play a part in the dreadful home defeat to Swansea last week. The same can be said of his French international colleague Mathieu Debuchy who starts at right-back. Moussa Sissoko also returns to the starting line-up after he missed the Swansea game entirely. Paul Dummett is once again chosen as the preferred left-back over Massadio Haidara with Davide Santon expected to miss the rest of the season through injury. The bench for Newcastle tonight looks like this;
Elliot, Haidara, Yanga-Mbiwa, S Taylor, Obertan, Armstrong, Shola Ameobi
Pardew has picked a team that he is hopeful can avoid The Magpies slumping to a record breaking sixth successive Premier League defeat, which would be our worst run since an unwanted streak during Christmas 86/87. Missing through injury (or otherwise) are at least half a dozen players including Hatem Ben Arfa, Davide Santon, Luuk De Jong and Sylvain Marveaux. The game is live on Sky Sports 1 with an 8pm kick-off in North London.