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Newcastle v Chelsea team news: Murphy starts, no Trippier

11 May 2025 341 comments
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UEFA Champions League hopefuls Newcastle United and Chelsea go head-to-head on Sunday.

Kick-off at St James’ Park is at 12pm BST.

The early start is due to TV selection, with the match originally scheduled for Saturday lunchtime. However, this had to be moved due to Chelsea’s involvement in the UEFA Conference League on Thursday night.

Eddie Howe makes two changes from Gameweek 35, with Sven Botman and Anthony Gordon replacing the injured Kieran Trippier and Joe Willock.

Those alterations would seem to indicate that Howe has moved to a 3-4-3 formation, with Tino Livramento at left wing-back and Jacob Murphy on the other flank.

It could also be a back four, with Livramento and Dan Burn as full-backs.

Enzo Maresca restores his first choice XI, so Chelsea are unchanged for the third league match in a row.

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Newcastle United XI: Pope, Livramento, Schar, Botman, Burn, Tonali, Guimaraes, Gordon, Murphy, Barnes, Isak

Subs: Dubravka, Ruddy, Lascelles, Wilson, Krafth, Osula, Longstaff, Miley, Neave

Chelsea XI: Sanchez, Caicedo, Chalobah, Colwill, Cucurella, Lavia, Enzo, Neto, Palmer, Madueke, Jackson

Subs: Jorgensen, Tosin, Badiashile, Acheampong, Gusto, James, Dewsbury-Hall, Sancho, George

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  1. Hooky
    • 11 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Wacko Jacko

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  2. Ruinenlust
    • 8 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Yet another game ruined by VAR

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    1. SM001
      • 10 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Explain?

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    2. F4L
      • 11 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      😛 by jackson you mean. thats a clear red

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    3. x.jim.x
      • 11 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Desperate for attention are we

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    4. lilmessipran
      • 13 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      How? Seems like a red card, doesnt even look at the ball..absolute clown.

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    5. Studs Up
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Go on

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    6. Crispo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      I don't like VAR but they made the right decision there

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    7. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Jackson ruined the match by himself.

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  3. JBG
    • 7 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    RC Jackson, he couldn't beat it. Tried to be a smooth criminal

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    1. Herger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Billie Jean is not his lover

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    2. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      That's Bad, you know it.

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    3. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      If not for the sending off the game would have been a thriller too

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  4. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 13 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    lol Jackson

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    1. Haa-lala-land
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Was it one yellow earlier, and then one straight red?

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  5. Jimmers
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Such a stupid challenge

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  6. Qaiss
    • 10 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Jackson is a thick player

    Nunez has a better football brain

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    1. JBG
      • 7 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Does he though?

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    2. La Roja
      • 14 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Dumb and dumber tbh

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  7. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Trippier CS locked

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  8. La Roja
    • 14 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    What an absolute idiotic challenge.

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    1. BIGREDDOG
      • 8 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      He’s not clever

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  9. Kaneyonero
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Few goals now burn

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    1. JBG
      • 7 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Almost scored just then, offside though

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    2. lilmessipran
      • 13 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Need one of the Chelsea duds to ruin that clean sheet somehow.

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  10. Atimis
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Trippier over Livra weeks ago goes worse and worse

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  11. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 12 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    I’m sorry Ms Jackson

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  12. Skout
    • 6 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    lol Jackson
    Does this increase Palmers appeal for next GW?

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    1. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      No

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    2. F4L
      • 11 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      probably not. neto might play up top?

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    3. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      People say he is does worse without him as nr. 9.

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      1. CoracAld2831
        • 5 Years
        11 months, 8 days ago

        So no.

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  13. Cruyff's Eleven
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Jackson TC. Season over.

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    1. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Seriously? That's an out there choice

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    2. Hughes Your Daddy
      • 13 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      TSB 6.7% sure someone out there who has 😀

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    3. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Ahh - I see

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    4. BIGREDDOG
      • 8 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Really? That’s either an odd joke or an even more odd choice.

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      1. Mambino
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        11 months, 8 days ago

        it's a joke

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    5. Haa-lala-land
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      In theory would it be -6 or stay at -2

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      1. Zalk
        • 14 Years
        11 months, 8 days ago

        -6

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    6. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
      • 16 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Your mistaken - there's two more GWs to go.

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  14. JBG
    • 7 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Do strikers not care about golden booths anymore?

    I remember the days when strikers where trying their hardest to score so many goals towards the end. Now Isak and Haaland for example just look like they want the season to be over.

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    1. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Golden booths?

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      1. Haa-lala-land
        • 5 Years
        11 months, 8 days ago

        Streakers?

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  15. Sandy Ravage
    • 10 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on VAR"

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    1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 12 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      If Isak can’t score at home vs 10 Chelsea in players he can gtfo of my team. Do something!

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      1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
        • 12 Years
        11 months, 8 days ago

        Reply fail

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  16. DL
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Obvious red. The last interesting match of the season is now ruined.

    It's extraordinary how bad the PL is at the moment. Last night's Match of the Day was painful to watch - they were grasping at anything to show: scuffed shots, huge offsides. Even Lineker was embarrassed.

    VAR is obviously a huge culprit, but it's also clear the players are tired. But it's the clubs' own fault for chasing summer $$$ instead of doing proper preseasons.

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    1. BIGREDDOG
      • 8 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Good shout.

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    2. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Forest - Chelsea will be interesting on the final day, though Forest will beat Chelsea to the top 5

      The players are tired comment is a myth though. So many teams have been playing 1 game a week. They’re paid loads, can rotate their squads.

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    3. x.jim.x
      • 11 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      It’s a busier schedule and managers are too adverse to rotating

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      1. DL
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        11 months, 8 days ago

        Yeah, and football IS just much more intense now. Just look at the average distance run and how much it's gone up since 2000. No amount of money can help with that: you could pay me £1bn and all the training in the world, but if I had to run a marathon every few days I'd still be knackered.

        Basic sport science for any intense sport - athletics, boxing, etc. - required a decent period to build a fitness "base" before more specialised work. If you don't get a proper pre-season to do that cos you're Harlem Globetrotting around the world, then nothing will help later on.

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    4. Hairy Potter
      • 10 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Depends who you support. I've enjoyed this season. I don't care so much about watching games as a neutral. Maybe the lack of "big" games between the top two is the thing that's been missing this season.

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  17. Rwilliams90
    • 14 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Would like to see how many similar challenges have gone unpunished this season.

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    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      you can probably draw similarities to the mings one yesterday even

      jackson done himself him by just looking straight at botman before making the contact, at least if your gonna do it be abit more discrete about it

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    2. BIGREDDOG
      • 8 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      If he didn’t look at him before he did it, it wouldn’t have gone to VAR.

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      1. Admiral Benson
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        11 months, 8 days ago

        Aye. Tyrone Mings did the same yesterday but a more subtle look before the elbow.

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    3. Zalk
      • 14 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Wouldn't mind that being red all the time since it's a cowardly challenge. But it's not red all the time, and going by similar challenges this season, I don't think it should be a red here either.

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  18. Bobby Digital
    • 8 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Do something Isak!

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    1. Atimis
      • 9 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Could e easy move for Watkins (c)

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  19. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Jackson costing Chelsea UCL football, inject it in my veins!

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  20. Rwilliams90
    • 14 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Newcastle clean sheet = season over for me. Of course Chelsea get a red card.

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  21. Utopsis
    • 6 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Newcastle build up play is very impressive

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  22. Atimis
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Need that New CS gone, ofc Tripp injured and my ML rivals with Livra and Burn…

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  23. The Red Devil
    • 11 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Livramento CS looks locked

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    1. Sgt. Schultz
      • 9 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      plz don't jinx it. Burn owner

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  24. Nightcrawler
    • 6 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    has anyone actually gained any real advantage from the pre deadline leak this gw?

    was selling isak until the news, then sold marmoush

    not to mention for wissa

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    1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
      • 9 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      No.

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    2. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Nope. All of my transfers blanked.

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    3. Zalk
      • 14 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      I sold Marmoush to Wood, so hopefully.

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    4. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Yes, I benched hairy mammoth and played Murphy

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  25. F4L
    • 11 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    cant wait until this attackers kicking defenders to win fks is gone from the game

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    1. Bobby Digital
      • 8 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Yeah Gordon clearly kicked Palmer there

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      1. F4L
        • 11 Years
        11 months, 8 days ago

        refs just arent wise to it imo

        give it a few years and embarrassing decisions and they'll start thinking twice about who initiated the contact. i hope anyways

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  26. Ruinenlust
    • 8 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Clear dive from Gordon. Why no VAR there?

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    1. Nightcrawler
      • 6 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      var for what?

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      1. Ruinenlust
        • 8 Years
        11 months, 8 days ago

        Clear and obvious error

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    2. Haa-lala-land
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Gordon is such a dirty diver, I could never own him in FPL

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    3. Jimmers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      You don't watch football too often, do you?

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  27. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Jackson suspension makes Nkunku a great option GW1 next season 😎

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    1. Haa-lala-land
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      Game breaker

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  28. Qaiss
    • 10 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Spurs playing their B team

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    1. Haa-lala-land
      • 5 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      The thing is, their B team is pretty good

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  29. Sgt. Schultz
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Mateta starts !! punish them all

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  30. The-Red-1
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    11 months, 8 days ago

    Was tempted to get in Palmer for a punt. Now almost certainly an avoid with no Jackson, right?

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    1. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      11 months, 8 days ago

      it makes him a bit worse I reckon

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