Newcastle travel to the Amex Stadium to face Brighton in the Premier League this evening as they go in search of their first win of the season.

Graeme Jones appears set to take charge for the final time as interim head coach, with Eddie Howe reportedly on the verge of becoming the permanent replacement for Steve Bruce.

The Magpies lost 3-0 to Chelsea at St James' Park in their last outing after drawing 1-1 at Crystal Palace in Jones' first match at the helm.

How many changes will the 51-year-old make to the team for this evening? Here is our predicted XI...

We are predicting that he will make four alterations to the line-up from last Saturday, with Martin Dubravka, Jamal Lewis, Fabian Schar and Joe Willock all coming in.

Dubravka could make his first appearance of the season as Newcastle's last line of defence. Karl Darlow recorded a dismal SofaScore rating of 5.7 against Chelsea and gave away a penalty as he clipped Kai Havertz in the box before Jorginho converted the spot kick past him.

The Slovakian was back on the bench against Thomas Tuchel's side and has been named in his country's squad for the upcoming international break. This suggests that he is fit enough to start and Jones could opt to throw him in from the start today.

We are also predicting that Schar and Lewis will come in at centre-back and left wing-back respectively across the back five. Emil Krafth was given a woeful SofaScore rating of 6.2 against Chelsea, losing two of his three ground duels and only making one tackle, and could be replaced by Schar - a natural centre-back.

After the defeat to Tuchel's side, we published an article explaining why Matt Ritchie let Jones down badly on the left flank. Reece James scored both of Chelsea's open play goals from his side of the pitch and that could tempt the head coach to give Lewis the nod for his first league start of the campaign.

Finally, we are predicting that Ryan Fraser will be axed from the side in favour of Joe Willock. The £63k-per-week Scotland international only had 17 touches of the ball in 66 minutes last weekend, creating zero chances and completing zero dribbles.

This could result in him being dropped for Willock to come back into the starting XI. The ex-Arsenal man has not started since the 3-2 defeat to Tottenham but has averaged a solid SofaScore rating of 6.71 in his appearances in the top flight this season. Today could be a chance for him to show the onlooking Howe that he could be the 43-year-old's go-to man in midfield.

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