Newcastle United will hope to ease their Premier League relegation fears when they host Manchester United at St James' Park on Sunday afternoon.
The Magpies lie one point and two places above the bottom three going into the weekend's fixtures, but they could easily find themselves below the line by the time they kick off given three of the four teams below them – Swansea City, Stoke City and Huddersfield Town – are all playing at home before them on Saturday and Sunday.
The Tyneside outfit picked up a 1-1 draw against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park last weekend and they are going to need to carry on getting points on the road considering they currently have the worst home record in the English top flight having taken just 13 points and scored 11 goals in 13 fixtures on their own turf.
It will certainly be no easy task to improve that record against Jose Mourinho's second-place side, although the hosts will take some comfort from the fact that the Portuguese manager has never won a league game at St James' Park in all of his six previous attempts.
Rafa Benitez will be well aware of how important every fixture is for his team now in the run-in, and he will be determined to pick the best XI he can to pick up some vital points against the Red Devils.
Here is how Newcastle must line up against Man United on Sunday, ahead of Karl Darlow in goal…
Defence
While the likes of Florian Lejeune and Javier Manquillo will be hoping to secure a starting spot in the back four soon, Newcastle's back four pretty much picks itself right now.
Paul Dummett is back from injury and impressing at left-back, while DeAndre Yedlin is starting to make the right-back spot his own.
In the middle, captain Lascelles and Ciaran Clark also continue to impress for their side, and even though the latter was responsible for giving away the penalty against Christian Benteke in the 1-1 draw against Palace last weekend, he made up for it with a brilliant block to deny the same player.
Midfield
Benitez lined up with a 4-4-1-1 formation against Crystal Palace last weekend, and he should choose to do the same when Manchester United visit St James' Park on Sunday to try and make them more tight defensively, and to try and give them some more control when in possession of the ball.
Kenedy, Jonjo Shelvey, Mo Diame and Matt Ritchie were the quartet that started at Selhurst Park, and while Kenedy and Diame look to be two of the first names on the team-sheet right now because of their impressive form, the Spanish boss should choose to bring in Mikel Merino and Jacob Murphy for this one with Ritchie and Shelvey still flattering to deceive with their displays.
Attack
With new boy Islam Slimani missing as he recovered from a thigh problem last week, Dwight Gayle started ahead of Ayoze Perez in attack for the Magpies.
Gayle has now gone 10 Premier League matches without a scoring and while Benitez should probably keep the faith with Perez in the role behind the centre-forward as he has few other options, Slimani must come in for his debut against the Red Devils.
The 29-year-old will be more suited to the role than Gayle is, and he will be determined to get his Newcastle off to the best possible start with a goal in front of the home supporters.
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