Eddie Howe has spoken about the availability of his players for their visit to the Etihad Stadium.
Newcastle United will try to avenge their exit from the Carabao Cup semi-final when they face **Man City**on Saturday evening. The team are buoyed by an emphatic 6-1 victory against **Qarabag**in the Champions League earlier in the week, and the group has been recovering to prepare for this trip.
“Tino Livramento* is making good progress, but I don’t think we’re going to shave too much time off the early March target for him. Better news on Sven Botman, he could be in and around this game.*
“Yoane Wissa* won’t be available tomorrow, but he could be back for Qarabag on Tuesday. He took a nasty knock in training, but he will be fine. Lewis Miley had a dead leg, but it disturbed a bit of the muscle. Nothing more than a couple of weeks, maximum. But we have got to be careful with it.*
*“No massive update on Bruno Guimaraes, he’s in Brazil recovering. Seeing him watching the Qarabag game in the recovery chamber did make me laugh because it’s just his passion and his love for the team shining through! We wish him well from afar.*
“It was a late night for us. We got back [from Azerbaijan] 4am maybe later. Sleeping was an issue. A good night’s rest for them last night and there’s another night to go, so hopefully they will be all right.
“You have to (deal with the travel). I don’t think there’s a choice there. In some respects, the necessity to recover and be at your best again is a sobering thought when you play Man City and that in itself focuses the mind to not look for excuses. We have to turn up and be the best version of ourselves and give everything we can to win another game. The players know they have to be ready.”