The team sheets are in at the Etihad, where Newcastle United start the night 2-0 down in our Carabao Cup semi-final second leg away to Man City.
Our defence of the trophy hangs in the balance, and a final against Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal at Wembley is up for grabs.
Here’s how the two sides line up for tonight’s 8pm kick-off live on Sky Sports…
**Newcastle XI:** Ramsdale – Trippier, Thiaw, Botman, Burn, Hall – Willock, Ramsey, Tonali, Gordon – Woltemade.
**Subs:** Pope, Wissa, Barnes, Osula, Elanga, J.Murphy, A.Murphy, Shahar, Neave
**Man City XI:** Trafford – Nunes, Khusanov, Ake , Ait-Nouri – Nico, Reijnders, O’Reilly – Semenyo, Foden, Marmoush
Eddie Howe has made three changes from Saturday’s 4-1 defeat at Liverpool, seeing Aaron Ramsdale, Sven Botman and Nick Woltemade, coming in for Nick Pope, Anthony Elanga and Harvey Barnes.
As expected, Bruno Guimaraes and Lewis Miley are absent after [Howe’s pre-match update](https://www.nufcblog.co.uk/2026/02/03/official-injury-update-on-bruno-guimaraes-lewis-miley-and-sven-botman/) on Tuesday, while Tino Livramento, Joelinton, Fabian Schar and Emil Krafth remain out.
Sven Botman only made the bench at Anfield, and he returns in the heart of the defence as Howe reverts to a back five similar to the PSG game.
Erling Haaland is on the bench and Man City’s Jeremky Doku is still missing, while new signing Marc Guehi can not play after joining the home side after the first leg last month; unlike Antoine Semenyo.
James Trafford also returns to the starting XI for Guardiola’s side, where we’ll be hoping he doesn’t repeat his heroics from the first leg.
A mountain to climb, but you just never know if we can grab the first goal. Howay the lads!