COV V NEW Team News: The Confirmed Line-Ups
The call — Teamsheets in: COV v NEW, Monday 12 October, Coventry Building Society Arena Fernandez-Pardo starts for Newcastle at Coventry. He leads the line in a 4-2-3-1, with Wissa and Barnes in the row behind. Ownership: about 1 in 1,000. Price: £6.0m. These are the confirmed sheets, not a prediction.
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The other news on the Newcastle sheet. Pope sits on the bench. Horníček starts in goal. Lewis Miley — a midfielder in the game at £5.5m — lines up in the back four. Joelinton is among the substitutes.
Newcastle XI: Horníček; L.Miley, Thiaw, Botman, Hall; N.Gonzalez, Willock; J.Murphy, Wissa, Barnes; Fernandez-Pardo.
Hall starts at left-back. About 2 in 10 managers own him at £5.3m. That makes him the most-owned player on the pitch. Wissa starts too — about 2 in 10 own him at £6.3m. Barnes, owned by just under 1 in 10, starts on the left. Every Newcastle player the field holds in numbers is in the eleven. Nobody in the "benched and widely owned" column tonight.
Coventry go 4-3-3: Rushworth; van Ewijk, Thomas, Pinnock, Dasilva; Yirenkyi, Grimes, Rudoni; Thomas-Asante, Cherif, Mason-Clark.
The Coventry names that matter to the field are the £4.0m defenders. Thomas is owned by just under 1 in 10, van Ewijk by about 1 in 10 fewer. Both start. Rushworth, at £4.5m and owned by fewer than 1 in 100, keeps goal.
What the sheets force:
- Hall owners: start him. He is in the eleven. A £5.3m defender who starts is a £5.3m defender who plays.
- Wissa owners: start him. He is on the pitch from the first minute.
- Pope owners: he scores nothing tonight. Horníček has the gloves. Plan your bench order around that.
- Thomas and van Ewijk owners: both play. No action needed.
- Fernandez-Pardo: he starts, and almost nobody has him. That is a fact, not a recommendation. One start is one start. Watch his minutes before spending a transfer.
The call is the one the sheets make for you: every widely owned player in this fixture starts, so start them all — Hall, Wissa, Barnes, Thomas, van Ewijk. Pope sits; so should his owners' hopes for this gameweek.