Newcastle’s away form continues to de-rail their quest for another top four finish, and was ultimately the catalyst for their premature exit in the Champions League. However, their recent record against newly promoted sides suggests this weekend could present the perfect opportunity to regain their confidence on the road.
Newcastle Away Form
Since the start of the season, Newcastle have failed to win 11 of their 13 games away from home, with their only victories coming against Manchester United in the Carabao Cup, and their 8-0 drubbing of Sheffield United at the tail end of September.
As it stands heading into gameweek 18, Newcastle’s away form is threatening to push them further and further out of contention for a European spot, with Manchester United, West Ham and Brighton all hot on their tail. They have drifted to 3/1 to finish in the top four on some Premier League betting sites.
The Magpies have collected just five points away from St James’s Park in the Premier League; the same as relegation-threatened Burnley, and just one more than 18th-placed Luton.
Below we have outlined Newcastle stats away from home in all competitions, which makes for fairly grim reading.
- Matches Played Away From Home: 13
- Won: 2
- Drawn: 5 (Including 90 minute result in Carabao Cup exit to Chelsea)
- Lost: 6
- Goals Scored: 19
- Goals Conceded: 21
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Newcastle Record Against Newly Promoted Teams
Granted, Saturday’s upcoming meeting with Luton is about as tough as it gets near the foot of the table.
The Hatters have given an excellent account of themselves in recent weeks, and Kenilworth Road proved a problematic venue for both Arsenal and Manchester City, who managed to scrape three points after onerous affairs.
Nevertheless, Newcastle and Eddie Howe will have identified this fixture as the optimal moment to dispel any doubts over their away form.
For all Luton’s hardiness when welcoming the league’s elite, they have been too magnanimous when it really matters. Unfortunately for them, they fall under the category of a Premier League newcomer, which if Newcastle’s record against newly promoted sides is anything to go by, Saturday’s fixture should spell danger.
Across the Magpies’s previous 16 meetings against such sides, they are unbeaten having claimed nine victories, and sharing the spoils across the remaining seven.
As mentioned, bottom-of-the-league Sheffield United felt the full wrath of a ruthless Newcastle side in September, falling to a humiliating 8-0 defeat. Fellow newcomers Burnley also experienced a similar fate just a week later, albeit with a slightly more flattering scoreline of 2-0 at St James’s Park.
For a side who, at this stage of the season last term, had lost just one fixture and eventually finished the season with the third-best away form behind Arsenal and Manchester City, this kind of form is particularly worrying.
They will attempt to take comfort in their record against promoted sides, although a depleted squad, fresh off the back of an agonising Carabao Cup exit, may struggle to get going at a notoriously fervent Kenilworth Road.
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