Welcome to the Tottenham v Newcastle preview.
Tuesday 10th February and a 7.30pm kick-off.
The Toon look to get their league form back on track this Tuesday night when travelling to a disjointed Tottenham Hotspur.
With both sides enduring an underwhelming season so far, a further defeat for either would heap more woe on two under pressure managers.
Newcastle will be looking to improve on their away form whilst Tottenham will be looking for their first Premier League win of 2026.
This is yet another televised fixture for NUFC with the match being aired live on TNT Sports, meaning there’s a slightly earlier kick off time than usual and hopefully an extra half hour for fans to celebrate into the night.
Form
The last six league matches have seen Newcastle win two, draw one and lose three. Unfortunately, the defeats and draw have all come in the last four matches meaning that the form table doesn’t make happy reading for those of a black and white persuasion. Wins came against Crystal Palace and Leeds before a disappointing 0-0 draw away at Wolves. Defeats have come against Aston Villa, Liverpool and Brentford. We’ve scored ten and conceded twelve in this sequence. The seven points gained has us twelfth in the league with the opportunity to climb up to ninth.
Tottenham haven’t won any of their last six matches, drawing three and losing three. Their draws have come against the Mackems, Burnley and Man City whilst they’ve lost to Bournemouth, West Ham and Man Utd. They’ve scored eight goals and conceded twelve. They currently sit fifteenth in the League but could be in thirteenth and just a point behind NUFC if they can claim all three points.
Last time out
Newcastle hosted Brentford on Saturday afternoon and looked good value for a win when Sven Botman opened the scoring. Wissa had a golden chance soon after to double the lead but unfortunately his effort was cleared off the line, before the Bees scored twice to take a 2-1 lead into half-time. Newcastle came out swinging in the second half and reaped the rewards when Bruno scored a penalty to make it 2-2. With the scene set for NUFC to snatch a crucial win, Brentford broke away and buried a late winner at the Gallowgate End to leave the Toon Army massively frustrated on a day that promised so much but delivered nothing other than another defeat.
Spurs travelled to Old Trafford in the early kick-off on Saturday and held their own until Romero was sent off for a dangerous tackle. An eventual 2-0 defeat and this red card means he’ll be banned for Tuesday night and unable to repeat his goal scoring exploits against us that he enjoyed at St James’ earlier in the season.
Stat attack!
-NUFC have won three of their past six visits to Tottenham.
– Newcastle have beaten Tottenham thirteen times in the Premier League era.
-The Toon have found the net in ten of their past twelve league visits to Spurs.
Memorable match
In January 2002, Sir Bobby Robson’s Newcastle were still basking in the glow of having recently banished a four year winless run in London. A trip to Tottenham would prove a stern test of NUFC’s title credentials. A tough match was made all the more difficult when Iversen scored early on to give the hosts the lead. Newcastle struggled throughout a frustrating first half and were lucky to be only one goal down at the break. Thankfully the second half was to prove much more enjoyable thanks to three goals in an eleven-minute spell. When Bellamy burst down the right flank with just twenty-two minutes remaining he went down after a shirt pull, giving Robert the chance to float a free-kick into the box. His delivery found a completely unmarked Clarence Acuna at the back post to nod home and level the scores. Things got even better just two minutes later when more great work from Bellamy allowed Shearer to tap in at the back post to put NUFC ahead. With the travelling Toon Army in absolute dreamland, intricate passing around the Tottenham box saw Aaron Hughes tee up Bellamy to make it 3-1 and seal yet another impressive away win in one of the many highlights of a hugely enjoyable season.
Tottenham 1-3 Newcastle
Played for both
David Ginola was perhaps one of the most exciting players ever to represent NUFC in the Premier League era. Highlights of his two years on Tyneside include superb goals against Sheffield Wednesday, Man United and Ferencvaros. whilst equally memorable was his ability to whip the ball into the box, loading the bullets for Sir Les and Shearer to fire home. Tragically sold to Spurs by Kenny Dalglish in the same summer that Ferdinand also went to White Hart Lane, Ginola became something of a pantomime villain when playing against NUFC for the remainder of his career. Thankfully his retirement has seen a thawing in relations and he’s rightly remembered by Toon fans as a modern day legend. He played one hundred matches for Spurs and scored thirteen goals.
Stephen Carr spent eleven years at Tottenham before signing for Graeme Souness’ NUFC in 2004. He’d scored seven goals in two hundred and twenty-six appearances. We never really saw the best of him at Newcastle but he did fire home a smashing strike away at Southampton to secure our first away league win there for many a year.
DeAndre Yedlin played just one match for Tottenham having signed for Spurs in 2014. He spent most of his time as a Spurs player on loan to the Mackems. He then signed for the Toon in 2016 and scored three goals in over a hundred appearances. Until Elanga netted in the League Cup semi-final, he was the last Toon player to score away at Manchester City when he netted a well-taken goal during a 2-1 defeat in 2018.
Managers
Eddie Howe after a 3-2 home defeat to Brentford:
“A strange game because I think at 2-2 you think you’re going to go on and win it. The game got away from us with a really poor third goal, the construction of it we’re all out attack, which is fine in that moment of course. But we need to do it in control, and we weren’t in control of the transition well enough. It’s been a massive problem in this last group of games, we all know if you defend well you’ve got a chance with our attacking players of scoring. We scored two today and we lost the game and got nothing from it which is hugely frustrating from our view point. I’m obviously not doing my job well enough at the moment. I’m annoyed with myself, angry with myself, blaming myself, taking full accountability on my shoulders. No one else. There’s a harsh reality for me. I think I have to think long and hard about – not my effort, because I can’t question that – but I have to work better, do more. I have to take responsibility for everything you see on the pitch. I have got to work out solutions.”
Thomas Frank after a 2-0 defeat away at Man United:
“I think we started the first thirty minutes well. I think it was a good away performance, very even against a Man United team in flow and playing with confidence. I’m happy with that. Of course, the red card changed the momentum. I’m very proud of the players in general but I’m proud of them in the last sixty plus ten minutes of injury time. How they showed resilience, stayed in the game, didn’t crumble, kept fighting and still created some moments where we could have created that goal. Then, of course, when we did the three positive subs with twenty minutes to go, they scored straight after.”
Charity
As it is an away match, Newcastle United fans will not be collecting opposite the Gallowgate end, for the food bank. However, you can still help out and all online cash donations are very much appreciated. For further info and/or to donate to the food bank online.
Prediction
Both teams are feeling the pressure after struggling for form recently and they will be desperate to stop the rot. There’s no denying that Newcastle were poor at the weekend but I fancy us to win. Spurs haven’t won in the league for seven matches and the Toon scoring first will really put the cat amongst the pigeons. Toon have a decent record away at Spurs recently and that will continue on Tuesday night. Spurs 1-2 Newcastle.