Newcastle was last season saved by oil money and they played an excellent end of the season by turning from the worst team in the league into one of the best, but their rise back to a top-6 club is still a faraway dream. The signing of Eddie Howe to coach them was another excellent move and he can build on now with a better base of players, and there are some excellent signings to key positions with keeper Pope and CB Botman from Lille.

Newcastle preseason results tell us very little as results and opponents are mixed ones, but it has not been a bad one.

Pope; Targett, Botman, Burn, Trippier; Joelinton, Guimaraes, Willock; Saint-Maximin, Wilson, Almiron would be the optimal lineup.

Bruno Guimaraes has a key role here and there are decent and even good attacking players, but they are not excellent and the material is a bit thin and that fact keeps them out of top-6 battle.

At injury list there is only Jonjo Shelvey, and perhaps this is also a bit early for Botman.

Nottingham got promoted through play-offs, after a good end of season coached by Cooper who saved them from relegation! They have been very active on transfer markets and signed a bunch of interesting players, but are they good enough, and do they fit in together?

Taiwo Awoniyi (Union Berlin), Neco Williams (Liverpool), Orel Mangala (Stuttgart), Moussa Niakhate (Mainz), Jesse Lingard (ManU), Dean Henderson (ManU)

There is attacking power if Awoniyi can reproduce his form from Bundesliga, Nottingham are interesting, but it often also means that they will make a lof mistakes and individual class is still not Premier League level.

I am extremely surprised if they stay up. On paper the optimal starting lineup might look like this:

Henderson; Niakhate, Worrall, McKenna; Richards, O’brien, Mangala,Lingard, Williams; Awoniyi, Johnson.

On Saturday they are likely to miss only Richards from this

纽卡斯尔上赛季被石油老板救了下来，他们在赛季末表现出色，从联盟最差的球队变成了最好的球队之一，但他们重新回到前六名的俱乐部仍然是一个遥远的梦想。签下埃迪·豪来执教他们是另一个出色的举动，他现在可以在更好的球员基础上继续发展，并且门将波普和博特曼的关键位置上有一些出色的签约。

纽卡斯尔的季前赛结果告诉我们的很少，因为结果和对手都是喜忧参半的，但这并不是一个糟糕的结果

塔吉特、博特曼、伯恩、特里皮尔；乔林顿、吉马良斯、威洛克； Saint-Maximin、Wilson、Almiron 将是最佳阵容。

布鲁诺·吉马良斯在这里扮演着关键角色，有一些不错的甚至是优秀的进攻球员，但他们并不出色，而且材料有点薄，这一事实使他们无法进入前六名。

伤病名单上只有 Jonjo Shelvey，也许这对博特曼来说也有点早了。

诺丁汉得到通过季后赛晋级，在库珀执教的赛季结束后，库珀将他们从降级中拯救了出来！他们在转会市场上非常活跃，签下了很多有趣的球员，但他们足够优秀吗？他们适合在一起吗？

Taiwo Awoniyi（柏林联合）、Neco Williams（利物浦）、Orel Mangala（斯图加特）、Moussa Niakhate（美因茨）、Jesse Lingard（ManU）、Dean Henderson（ManU）

如果阿沃尼伊能在德甲复现他的状态，就有攻击力，诺丁汉很有趣，但这往往也意味着他们会犯很多错误，个人级别还不是英超联赛水平。

如果他们保级成功我感到非常惊讶。在纸面上，最佳首发阵容可能如下所示： 亨德森；尼亚哈特、沃拉尔、麦肯纳；理查兹、奥布莱恩、曼加拉、林加德、威廉姆斯；阿沃尼，约翰逊。

周六他们很可能只缺少理查兹。预测纽卡胜