Newcastle United vs Manchester City Prediction, Odds and Picks for Tomorrow, 09/28/24

Scoring late goals in pressure situations is often characterized as a trait of champions. How significant John Stones’s late equalizer against Arsenal will prove in the title race come May remains to be seen, but it was another example that Manchester City rarely know when they are beaten. This weekend, City head to St. James’s Park to take on Newcastle, the scene of another remarkable comeback from the champions in January.

Kevin De Bruyne was the architect of that 3-2 success on his first league appearance in over 4 months, scoring within 5 minutes of coming off the bench to level the game at 2-2 before laying on Oscar Bobb’s 90th-minute winner. The five goals in January continued a run of high-scoring visits to St. James’s Park for City, with their last 5 meetings with Newcastle in the North East ending 2-2, 3-4, 0-4, 3-3 and 2-3. City have not kept a clean sheet in the league since an opening 2-0 win at Chelsea, conceding against Ipswich, West Ham, Brentford and Arsenal, so a solid Newcastle attack could certainly get on the scoresheet on Saturday. But they have lost 10  of their last league and cup meetings with the champions, who could again prove too clinical for the Magpies.