Newcastle United

Four matches make up Sunday's Premier League action, and we will bring you every moment.

• Chelsea v Newcastle - listen on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

• Crystal Palace v Tottenham - listen on the BBC Sport website

• West Ham v Man Utd - listen on BBC Radio 5 Live

• Arsenal v Liverpool - 16:30 - listen on BBC Radio 5 Live

Kick-offs 14:00 GMT unless stated

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Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League matches this season, against a variety of guests.

For week nine he takes on rapper Nemzzz, who supports Manchester United.

Sutton's prediction: 2-1

Newcastle have scored only eight goals in their first eight league games, but I don't think they have changed their style since last season.

It's more that they don't have the strength in depth in the strikers' department. They badly missed Alexander Isak when he was injured, because their other main frontman, Callum Wilson, has not been fit enough to feature this season.

I am backing Newcastle to get a goal this time after two games without scoring, but everything points towards a Chelsea win at Stamford Bridge. With Cole Palmer in the team, they carry far more of a threat than the Magpies.

Nemzzz's prediction: 3-1

Chelsea lost last week and, for once, Palmer did not play his best. Liverpool managed to keep him quiet, but I not sure Newcastle will.

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Phil Cartwright
BBC Sport journalist

Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe has been speaking to the media before Sunday's Premier League game against Chelsea (kick-off 14:00 GMT).

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

• Regarding Alexander Isak's contract situation: "It's a slightly more complex situation. Regarding the contracts, I'm not necessarily involved in those discussions day to day. I will hear bits and pieces. With Alex, he's got a long contract anyway and we have to be careful regarding our spending due to PSR. It's not a clear-cut situation. We of course love him and are desperate from him to stay at Newcastle for many years and score loads of goals for us. But I don't see a short-term issue with his contract."

• Striker Callum Wilson is not quite ready to return to action and is set to miss at least the next three matches: "He's just had some tightness in his body. He had trained with us and looked really good, but with Callum we and he are hypersensitive to any reaction to the work. He's got no injury as such, it's just he's not ready to come back yet."

• On Anthony Gordon signing a new contract: "Really pleased for him and for us. It's a really smart bit of work from the football club and from Anthony because it cuts out a lot of needless noise around his future."

• Howe added: "He's such a talent, we need him absolutely firing and I think this will help him get back to his very best."

• Howe said it is "crucial" the club continues its ambition for success in order to keep its best players: "We have to have a perception of achievement and growing as a football club to keep not just the so-called big names happy, but everyone happy and going in a forward direction. I've seen it very quickly go the other way. Myself and everyone connected at the club has a big job to try to keep that momentum positive."

• Howe does not want to "make too big a thing" of the Magpies failing to score in each of their past two games: "We need to score goals. It's been at the heart of everything we've done since we've been here, to be an attacking team, and we certainly haven't lost the intent to attack or score. I'd just love to see us be free and take those chances we create."

• On Sunday's opponents Chelsea, who they face again in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday: "It's unusual that you get to play the same team back to back and it's interesting that we're away and then home because naturally that will add complexities to gameplans. But I embrace the challenge."

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Newcastle should 100% have scored after registering 35 shots across two games - but it is not a full-blown problem for Eddie Howe's side.

I doubt there is a feeling on the pitch that they won't score. Players in a team that creates opportunities do usually have a belief there will be better times ahead.

When teams do not create many chances then it is different because there is a pressure to take them.

Newcastle are not that side.

With their creativity, the attacking players they have are more than capable of scoring multiple goals in any game.

Plus, Newcastle do not score loads of goals anyway - yet they know how to get results and they still are.

People will overreact but the situation is not as bad as some are making it out to be.

Football is like that. Often people never notice these things but then someone brings out a stat and it escalates from there.

Nedum Onuoha was speaking to BBC Sport's Katie Stafford

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We asked for your views on one thing nobody is talking about at Newcastle.

Here are some of your comments:

Richard: How many pre-takeover players we still have in our squad. In the game against Brighton, there were six Ashley-era players involved, plus another as an unused substitute. With Dubravka and Lascelles injured the figure could have been higher. Some 11 out of 29 squad players are pre-takeover. Nearly half! We must be patient.

Phil: How do you solve a problem like Bruno and Tonali? Both superstar players yet when they play together the product they serve is so inconsistent. It is like a modern day Gerrard-Lampard combination. Eddie needs to find an answer as using the flanks hoping to beat the offside trap is pretty toothless when the opposition know it's all you have.

Paul: Frustrating slump and moving the wrong way down the table, new attacking players needed. Why did we sell Chris Wood? We have not been the same team since.

Neil: Set-pieces. We have been woeful with corners and free-kicks awarded to us this season - whereas we had great routines in the first 18 months of Eddie Howe (with Jason Tindall devising smart routines). We are also naive when defending set-pieces. Goal against Brighton a case in point - get someone in front of the ball to stop quick free-kicks being taken.

Chris: Fabian Schar was signed for £3m and has been an outstanding servant for the club. This summer, the headlines have been about a lack of signings, and chasing an overpriced centre-back. Blaming FFP might be one thing, but are the scouts and backroom staff just being lazy? Forget the likes of Guehi. Newcastle need to be smarter with the money available.

Alexander Isak is keen to sign a new long-term deal at Newcastle United beyond 2028, despite interest in the forward from Arsenal and Chelsea. (i Sport), external

However, the Magpies do not see any rush to open talks with Isak, given he has three years left on his contract. (Mail - subscription required), external

Besiktas are keen on the possibility of taking Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin on loan, with Newcastle, Arsenal and Manchester United also interested in the 27-year-old England international. (Fotomac - in Turkish), external

Middlesbrough have ruled out the possibility of 22-year-old midfielder Hayden Hackney joining Newcastle or Tottenham in January. (GiveMeSport), external

Want more transfer news? Read Friday's full gossip column