{"id":676934,"date":"2026-01-06T04:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676934\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:39:10","slug":"newcastle-united-vs-leeds-united-predicted-magpies-xi-for-st-james-park-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676934\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle United vs. Leeds United: Predicted Magpies XI for St James&#8217; Park showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/newcastle-united\/\" title=\"Newcastle United\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newcastle United<\/a> head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/eddie-howe\/\" title=\"Eddie Howe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eddie Howe<\/a> could introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/nick-woltemade\/\" title=\"Nick Woltemade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Woltemade<\/a> back into his starting side for Wednesday&#8217;s Premier League clash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/leeds-united\/\" title=\"Leeds United\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Woltemade has had a successful start to his Newcastle career, scoring seven times in the Premier League, but he has been used off the bench in the team&#8217;s last two matches.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle have an incredibly busy December, so Howe could take the chance to rest Yoane Wissa, who has one Premier League goal for the club since his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>There are not expected to be any surprises in the Magpies XI on Wednesday, although Jacob Murphy needs to be assessed due to a thigh complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle will definitely be missing\u00a0William Osula (ankle),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/dan-burn\/\" title=\"Dan Burn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Burn<\/a>\u00a0(chest) and Emil Krafth (knee) through injury, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/anthony-elanga\/\" title=\"Anthony Elanga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Elanga<\/a> (knee) and Jamaal Lascelles (fitness) are doubts for the contest with an in-form Leeds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/lewis-miley\/\" title=\"Lewis Miley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lewis Miley<\/a> was excellent at right-back against Crystal Palace last time out and is set to continue in that position despite the return to fitness of Kieran Trippier.<\/p>\n<p>Joelinton is also set to keep hold of his role in a midfield three.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newcastle United possible starting lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pope; Miley, Thiaw, Schar, Hall; Guimaraes, Tonali, Joelinton; Murphy, Woltemade, Gordon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/newcastle-united\/injury-news\/predicted-lineups\/midfield-boost-for-farke-how-leeds-could-line-up-against-newcastle_589285.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; Click here to see how Leeds could line up for the match<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe could introduce Nick Woltemade back into his starting side for Wednesday&#8217;s Premier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,4230,393,68644,94,707,2826,4884,1860,22138,7126,101,4151,93,68303,10938,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-676934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-epl","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-golf","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-leeds","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-olympics","19":"tag-premier-league","20":"tag-rugby","21":"tag-sport","22":"tag-sports-mole","23":"tag-teams","24":"tag-tennis","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115846313939255412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676934","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=676934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}