Matthias Jaissle Newcastle United
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Newcastle United have lost 3-1 to Everton twice since August, and on Monday night they go again in front of a home crowd still waiting for a clean sheet this season.
The first of those defeats was a friendly at Murrayfield on 12 August, only Matthias Jaissle‘s second game in charge, and with 10 changes at half-time nobody should read much into it. The second came on Thursday and knocked Newcastle out of the Carabao Cup. Add Everton’s 3-2 win at St James’ Park on 28 February and that’s three meetings in a row with three Everton goals in each, and Thierno Barry on the scoresheet every time.
It isn’t all bad, though. Newcastle are 12th on 11 points from eight league games, with Everton 14th on 10, and it’s tight enough that the sums are simple: whichever side wins on Monday goes up to seventh.
When is Newcastle vs Everton?
Date: Monday, 2 November 2026
Kick-off: 8pm GMT
Venue: St James’ Park, Newcastle
Who is refereeing on Monday night?
John Brooks takes charge, with Nick Greenhalgh and Steve Meredith as his assistants and Bobby Madley as fourth official. Paul Howard is on VAR, assisted by Stuart Burt.
Newcastle have had Brooks once already this season, in the 4-1 defeat at Coventry City. He showed 93 yellow cards and four reds in 22 games last season.
Newcastle vs Everton team news
Newcastle: is Osula fit?
Nobody can say yet. William Osula twisted his ankle on Thursday and couldn’t come out for the second half. It was only his third start of the season, because he didn’t start again after a foot injury against Liverpool on the opening day until the 2-0 win at Crystal Palace, where he scored his first goal of the campaign.
Jaissle said after the cup defeat: “It’s too early at the moment. He was not able to continue. He twisted his ankle when he took the shot.” On his doubts more broadly, he added: “Hopefully they can make progress in the next few days to be able to make it in the squad, but right now I cannot update you.”
Lewis Miley (muscle) and Matias Fernandez-Pardo (illness) are the other question marks, and neither has played since the home defeat to Aston Villa on 17 October. Ewen Jaouen (hamstring) and Tino Livramento (knee) are out.
If Osula misses out, Yoane Wissa is the obvious replacement, having come on for him at half-time on Thursday. Joelinton should return for Jacob Ramsey in midfield after coming off the bench at Hill Dickinson Stadium for a club-record 24th League Cup appearance. Anthony Elanga, who set up Dan Burn’s late goal as a substitute, is still building his fitness and looks a bench option again.
Everton: Branthwaite back, but what about Grealish?
Jarrad Branthwaite has missed the last two games under concussion protocols after a clash with Chelsea goalkeeper Emi Martinez, and he looks set to return. David Moyes said: “Jarrad should have recovered from his concussion and also the timescale which we had to abide by.”
Jack Grealish is the bigger unknown. He missed the defeat at Arsenal through illness and then was left out of the cup squad on disciplinary grounds. Moyes was asked if he would be back for this game and replied: “I’d never give any team news away.”
Vitalii Mykolenko was forced off at Arsenal but got through 86 minutes on Thursday. Tyler Dibling started the cup tie and could keep his place ahead of Brennan Johnson, who started on the wing at Arsenal. On any fresh knocks from Thursday, Moyes would only say: “You never know until you get them back.”
Can Newcastle finally keep a clean sheet at St James’ Park?
History says no, but this might be their best chance yet. Five home games in all competitions have brought eight goals against: 2-2 with Liverpool, 3-2 against West Brom, 2-2 with Bournemouth, 2-1 against Hull City and a 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa. Hull remain the only league side they’ve beaten on Tyneside. Both of their league clean sheets have come away from home, 2-0 at Tottenham and 2-0 at Palace.
Everton, meanwhile, have only three goals in four league away games: 1-1 at Bournemouth, 0-0 at Tottenham, 2-2 at Hull and a 2-0 defeat at Arsenal. They haven’t won on the road in the league this season and went into the cup tie without a league goal in two games. Thursday’s three goals came at home, against a side that helped them out.
Newcastle’s defensive record also isn’t quite what it looks like. They’ve conceded 14 in the league, but eight of those came in the 4-1 defeats at Leeds and Coventry, leaving six in the other six games. And none of the 14 came in a game started by Burn and Fabian Schar. Palace was the first league start of the season for both, with Sven Botman and Malick Thiaw dropping to the bench, and Newcastle kept a clean sheet. That’s one game, and the same pair then conceded three on Thursday, but it’s worth bearing in mind before anybody calls for another change.
What did Jaissle blame on Thursday?
Mostly the moments around the goals rather than the performance. Jaissle called the night “a bit shocking” because “overall the game was not that bad”, then gave his view of where this season keeps going wrong: “In situations where it really counts, we lack in the clinical approach to solve the situations.”
On the opener, which came after Tyrique George won the ball on the right from a long Jordan Pickford pass, he said: “This is again a low-risk zone where we said, clear the ball, nothing happens, and a couple of seconds later you can see the goal out of nothing.” He then added the line that should sting most: “Independent of a young team or a young squad that was a bit naïve and we need to solve that quickly.”
There’s something to work with at the other end. Newcastle’s last three goals have all come from balls in from wide: Jacob Murphy’s cross for Osula and Amar Dedic’s cutback for Harvey Barnes at Palace, then Elanga’s cross for Burn on Thursday. Everton conceded from a corner and then a cross at Arsenal, which is one reason Branthwaite’s return matters.
Who could settle it on Monday night?
Harvey Barnes
He scored at Palace, had a header parried by Pickford on Thursday and went down under a Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall challenge just before half-time, a moment Jaissle felt should have been a penalty. He was also taken off at the break, so he should be fresher than most.
Lukas Hornicek
The clean sheet at Palace owed plenty to him, with saves from Jean-Philippe Mateta, Adam Wharton and Dario Osorio. Nick Pope has been on the bench for both of the last two games, so this is Hornicek’s goal to keep, and a home clean sheet is the one thing missing.
Yoane Wissa
Dropped for Palace, then on at half-time on Thursday, when he couldn’t lift a header over Pickford. If Osula is out, Jaissle’s complaint about being clinical lands squarely on him.
Thierno Barry
He scored the 83rd-minute winner at St James’ Park in February, then again at Murrayfield and again on Thursday, when he also set up Hayden Hackney. He’s carrying the whole load up front, as we covered in Everton’s January striker search, and Newcastle know exactly what he does to them.
Newcastle vs Everton predicted lineups
The big call for Jaissle is at centre-back. Botman and Thiaw were both unused on Thursday, so there’s a case for fresh legs with only four days between the games. We think he sticks with Burn and Schar, because he went back to them deliberately at Palace, and one bad night after a clean sheet isn’t much to go on.
Wissa for Osula and Joelinton for Ramsey look like the only other changes, with Joelinton back alongside Nico Gonzalez, who we tipped as a summer bargain.
For Everton, we expect Branthwaite in for Jake O’Brien and Hackney to keep his place next to James Garner ahead of Harrison Armstrong. Garner scored his first goal of the season on Thursday, then said: “Unfortunately, I don’t score enough, which I need to start doing.”
Newcastle United predicted lineup (4-2-3-1): Hornicek; Dedic, Schar, Burn, Hall; Joelinton, Gonzalez; Murphy, Willock, Barnes; Wissa
Everton predicted lineup (4-2-3-1): Pickford; Rohl, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Hackney, Garner; Dibling, Dewsbury-Hall, George; Barry
Can Jaissle finally get one over Moyes?
We think so, narrowly. Newcastle have only won one of their last seven against Everton, the 4-1 at Hill Dickinson Stadium in November 2025, and Moyes knows how to frustrate them. But they’ve scored at least two in four of their five home games this season, and Everton haven’t shown they can do what they did on Thursday away from home.
What we wouldn’t bet on is a clean sheet. Barry has scored in each of the last three meetings, Newcastle still give the ball away in bad places, and Everton only need one mistake. Newcastle only need to score one more than they give away, and that would lift them to seventh. Prediction: Newcastle United 2-1 Everton.
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