Beating Newcastle and Liverpool Would Skyrocket Manchester United Confidence Says Juan Mata

Manchester United will seek to extend a good recent record at Newcastle United on Tuesday night in the first of back-to-back away games in the Barclays Premier League. Rolando Aarons could be involved after recovering from an ankle injury. Papiss Cisse remains sidelined with a groin injury.

The Red Devils, who edged out Sheffield United 1-0 in a FA Cup game at the weekend, are now fifth in the Premier League with three points from 20 games.

Phil Jones is still nursing a knee problem so Daley Blind is likely to continue alongside Chris Smalling at the back and Ashley Young could come in at left-back. But Bastian Schweinsteiger, Nick Powell, Marcos Rojo, Antonio Valencia and Luke Shaw all remain sidelined. I don’t hope that they win against us.

It is 412 minutes since they last scored and the reverse at Vicarage Road was their fourth successive 1-0 loss.

As for Steve McClaren’s Newcastle?

“It’s been the same for the last four games”, Wijnaldum said.

Anthony Martial – United will be looking to Martial to sprinkle the magic dust as we have all season.

“We’re just not putting the ball in the back of the net”. A more direct approach to things – crossing from the wings and testing defenders aerially would be a better alternative, as it proved to be during the second half against Swansea.

Formation: 4-3-3 – Go big or go home. They beat Liverpool and Spurs last month, playing well as they did so; but they are now on a run of four consecutive defeats.

Louis van Gaal is under intense pressure so perhaps a trip to happy hunting ground St James’ Park is just what is required. Earlier on David De Gea had made a fine save to shut out Emmanuel Riviere, while Krul had been called into to action on several occasions to keep his team in the game.

However, as you can relive in the video above, a single goal from Eric Cantona swung momentum truly in Man United’s direction as Newcastle unravelled to the point that their manager went on that “I will love it” rant aimed at Alex Ferguson.