Newcastle United defender Fabricio Coloccini could be out for two to three games after being forced out of the game against West Bromwich Albion with a hamstring injury. The Argentinian appeared to be struggling in the 37th minute of the game and indicated to manager Alan Pardew that he could not continue. He made it to half time but was substituted off, with Davide Santon replacing him.
During the half time interval Pardew confirmed that Coloccini could not have played on in the second half and he will have his hamstring assessed to see how serious the problem is.
Pardew told reporters in his post-match interview that their captain could unfortunately be out for two to three games with the injury. He will miss games against Liverpool (h) and Swansea (a) and could miss the following games against Bolton Wanderers (h) and Chelsea (a) if serious.
I dont think many people think its an easy game TTID, more hope I would think. They will be bang up for it with the ex toon trio. Plus the slating they have been getting in the press.
Hopefully Tiote will be back and would like to see the same formation/tactics deployed. They play slightly narrow at times with Downing being the only real winger. Maybe they will try Bellamy on left. Who knows.
Not an easy game, but fact is we've been better than them for 30 matches this season. They just got beat by Wigan and they have one dangerous player in front of goal.
You can never expect a result but there's no reason we shouldn't be in this game. LFC have at least as much to fear from us as us from them.
Any hope of them overtaking us, means they have to come out and attack, and on the day they have enough fire power to get goals, the defence may be cr@p but so will ours, with the injuries we have
I can see this being a really open game and plenty of goals
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