{"id":675620,"date":"2026-01-05T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675620\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:04:11","slug":"newcastle-united-vs-leeds-united-premier-league-preview-team-news-stats-head-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675620\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle United vs Leeds United: Premier League preview, team news, stats &#038; head-to-head"},"content":{"rendered":"<li class=\"ssrcss-19tbu9w-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Newcastle have won just one of their last seven Premier League games against Leeds (D4 L2), beating them 1-0 at Elland Road in January 2022.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ssrcss-19tbu9w-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Leeds have won just two of their last eight Premier League away games against Newcastle (D3 L3), though are unbeaten in their last three at St James\u2019 Park (W1 D2).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ssrcss-19tbu9w-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Newcastle have won both of their last two Premier League games, last winning more in succession in April 2025 (5). At home, the Magpies are unbeaten in seven in the league (W5 D2), scoring exactly twice in all seven of these fixtures.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ssrcss-19tbu9w-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">The last promoted team to beat Newcastle at St James\u2019 Park in the Premier League was Leeds in January 2021 (2-1). Since then, the Magpies are unbeaten in their last 13 home league matches against promoted sides (W8 D5), winning each of the last five in a row.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ssrcss-19tbu9w-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Leeds are unbeaten in their last three Premier League away games, with all three ending in draws (v Brentford, Sunderland and Liverpool). They last went four without losing away from home in the top-flight in December 2001, under David O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ssrcss-19tbu9w-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Leeds have drawn their last three away league matches, but the Whites haven\u2019t drawn four in a row on the road since a run of six consecutively between August and October 1998.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ssrcss-19tbu9w-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Newcastle have forced 248 pressed sequences in the Premier League this season, more than any other side. Meanwhile, Leeds United have conceded five goals from high turnovers, second only to bottom side Wolves (6) in the division this term.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ssrcss-19tbu9w-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Although Newcastle manager Eddie Howe has never lost a Premier League match versus Leeds in four games (W1 D3) \u2013 only facing Swansea more without losing (6 games) \u2013 he has never beaten Daniel Farke in the top-flight in three attempts (D2 L1), only facing Andoni Iraola more often without winning (5 games).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ssrcss-19tbu9w-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">In his league career, Harvey Barnes has netted his joint -most league goals against Leeds United (six goals), with the Newcastle winger finding the net in six of his eight starts against the Whites.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ssrcss-19tbu9w-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Leeds striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin has scored six goals against Newcastle in the Premier League, only netting more against Crystal Palace (7) in the competition.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle have won just one of their last seven Premier League games against Leeds (D4 L2), beating them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-675620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115843109273126157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}