This would be my Newcastle team v Brentford on Sunday | OneFootball

I’m looking forward to the weekend’s Premier League action, when at 4pm on Sunday all of the clubs will kick off their final games.

Newcastle United head to the G-tech Community Stadium to play Thomas Frank’s Brentford in what could turn out to be a very good game of football.

Brentford are no mugs and have never looked like being out of place in the EPL since their promotion in 2021.

A possible Europa Conference League place is at stake for Newcastle United (I cannot see us pipping Chelsea for 6th and a place in the Europa League now) and I’m sure Eddie Howe will have our boys up for the game after Wednesday night’s disappointing defeat at Old Trafford.

It’s good to see Lewis Hall looking a more relaxed and accomplished performer since his deal from Chelsea became guaranteed to be permanent.

Joelinton will definitely start if fully up to speed and he would replace Elliot Anderson in my personal choice of Newcastle team v Brentford.

I think Eddie Howe will stick with Jacob Murphy on the right hand side alongside Isak and Gordon (if Flash’s Achilles has recovered).

Hopefully we can get ourselves into a position to give Harvey Barnes a decent run out with less pressure on him arriving off the bench.

I would rest Kieran Trippier and switch Emil Krafth to right-back, with Fabian Schar slotting in alongside Dan Burn.

Now for my big call/assumption.

This is that Eddie Howe will drop Martin Dubravka and bring back our first choice goalkeeper Nick Pope.

Our defence hasn’t been anywhere near good enough with either Pope or Dubravka behind them but recent mistakes by the latter have cost us.

So my prediction for the Newcastle team v Brentford on Sunday is –

Pope; Krafth, Schar, Burn, Hall; Longstaff, Guimaraes, Joelinton; Murphy, Isak, Gordon

Elsewhere, I predict comfortable wins for the top two teams in the Premier League, Manchester City and Arsenal.

That will mean that Pep Guardiola’s side will become the first team to win four Premier League titles in a row.

It’ll be tough luck once again on Arsenal who could be in danger of acquiring a reputation of being bottlers.

Not that I or many of you will care, after the way Mikel Arteta shamelessly behaved during and after the Gunners’ defeat to Newcastle United St James’ Park last November.

I can live comfortably in the knowledge that the defeat against us is probably going to cost them more dearly than they ever thought at the time.