Tonight’s game is a huge one for Newcastle United, as Rafa Benitez’s men travel to the DW Stadium hoping to reclaim their place at the summit of the Sky Bet Championship.
Newcastle lost their place at the top of the second tier last night Chris Hughton’s Brighton side, as the Seagulls defeated Blackburn Rovers 3-2. The Magpies, however, are in imperious form and go into the game on the back of a 4-0 pasting of Birmingham, who today sacked their manager Gary Rowett.
Newcastle are a side who should easily regain their top flight status, having swept most of their opponents away with a confident swagger and a deluge of goals. Dwight Gayle, a big-money summer buy is banging the goals in for fun and will likely be the one that other strikers will be chasing when it comes to the Championship Golden Boot award.
United will be determined to regain top spot tonight – and in the last few minutes, the Magpies released their starting XI for tonight’s crunch encounter against Wigan Athletic – and here is how Twitter reacted to the news.
Newcastle team sheet revealed – Twitter Reacts
such a good bench
— Tom Joyner (@tomjoyner19) December 14, 2016
why change a winning formula 👏. Subs will be crucial I think #
— Ben (@JarnyBen) December 14, 2016
our bench players would walk into any other championship team's starting XI 😂😂
— Alex (@Alexb25997) December 14, 2016
https://twitter.com/dalee23/status/809108150716657664
#NUFC team v Wigan Athletic tonight: Not a single change since Saturday. More of the same please.
— Peter Wood (@gallowgate_pete) December 14, 2016
