Newcastle United vs Hull City Prediction, Tips and Odds | Premier League

Newcastle United host Premier League surprise package Hull City at St James' Park on Saturday afternoon in a Matchweek five contest that pits a bruised Magpies side against unbeaten visitors sitting fourth in the table.

Matthias Jaissle's side are chasing a response to Monday night's 4-1 hammering at Leeds United, while Sergej Jakirovic's Tigers travel north on the back of a 2-2 draw at Chelsea, with head-to-head history at this venue also stacked heavily in the newly-promoted club's favour.

Newcastle United vs Hull City form and preview

The Magpies' opening three Premier League fixtures produced 2-2 home draws against Liverpool and Bournemouth either side of a 2-0 win at Tottenham, an opening sequence that suggested Jaissle's rebuild might settle quickly on Tyneside.

Monday night's 4-1 hammering at Elland Road brought that unbeaten start crashing down, however, laying bare the defensive frailties that had been quietly building beneath the surface, with Bazoumana Toure's late strike offering nothing more than cosmetic comfort by the final whistle.

Jaissle has conceded that “the learning curve needs to be fast” for a Newcastle side that has now faced more shots than any other Premier League team this season, having stood up to 76 attempts on their goal at an average of 19 per game.

Only Crystal Palace with 42 and Chelsea with 40 have conceded more top-flight goals than the Magpies with 39 across the 2026 calendar year, and the hosts have kept just two clean sheets across their last 20 Premier League matches with neither of those shutouts coming at St James' Park.

Newcastle sit 12th in the table, exactly where they finished last season, and Saturday's assignment begins a spell that also brings a two-week international break and a following league fixture against fellow newly-promoted side Coventry City.

Yoane Wissa is yet to open his Premier League account on home turf for the Magpies, and Toure could be rewarded with his first top-flight start after netting the consolation goal at Elland Road on Monday.

Hull have made a dream start to life back in the top flight under Jakirovic, opening the campaign with a 2-0 win over Manchester United and a 1-0 victory at Coventry before drawing 0-0 with Europa League winners Aston Villa and 2-2 at Chelsea last weekend.

Mohamed Belloumi turned the Stamford Bridge fixture on its head with a brace before the interval after the Tigers had fallen behind to an early Morgan Rogers strike, and it took a second-half equaliser from Joao Pedro to rescue a point for Chelsea as the traveling support broke into chants of “we are going to win the league”.

The visitors' eight points from four fixtures is bettered by only two newly-promoted sides in Premier League history, with Nottingham Forest in 1994-95 and Bolton Wanderers in 2001-02 both accumulating 10 points from their first four rounds of a new campaign.

A win or draw on Saturday would make Hull the first promoted club to remain unbeaten through their opening five Premier League matches since Portsmouth in 2003-04, though defeat would represent a 16th loss in the Tigers' last 21 top-flight games.

Team news: Newcastle United vs Hull City

Newcastle United

Newcastle's treatment room remains busy, with Anthony Elanga and Jacob Ramsey the latest additions to a list already containing Amar Dedic, Dan Burn, Ewen Jaouen, Joelinton and William Osula.

Nico Gonzalez's concussion after being withdrawn early at Elland Road further reduces Jaissle's midfield options for Saturday.

Toure looks primed to earn his first Premier League start after his consolation goal at Leeds, a move which could see Jacob Murphy drop out and Harvey Barnes shift from the left flank to the right.

Eighteen-year-old Sean Steur and 20-year-old Lewis Miley are candidates to partner in central midfield, though Joe Willock or Aladji Bamba remain alternatives, while Tino Livramento and Fabian Schar are both pushing to start at right-back and centre-back respectively.

Hull City

Nobel Mendy is unavailable after being taken to hospital following a nasty head injury sustained during the draw with Chelsea, and his enforced absence opens the door for 19-year-old new signing Lucas Herrington to slot in at centre-back alongside John Egan and Semi Ajayi.

Ilyas Ansah, Jack Butland, Charlie Hughes, Hidemasa Morita, Elliot Matazo and Darko Gyabi all remain sidelined for Jakirovic, though the Hull head coach has no reason to shake up his team in any other positions.

Brooke Norton-Cuffy, Lucas Gourna-Douath, Tim Iroegbunam, Sorba Thomas and Mohamed-Ali Cho are among those pushing for inclusion in the visitors' first XI.

Predicted XIs: Newcastle United vs Hull City

Newcastle United predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Hornicek; Livramento, Thiaw, Botman, Hall; Steur, L. Miley; Barnes, Fernandez-Pardo, Toure; Wissa.

Hull City predicted XI (3-4-2-1): Tzolakis; Ajayi, Egan, Herrington; Coyle, Slater, Crooks, Giles; Belloumi, Stroud; McBurnie.

Head-to-head: Newcastle United vs Hull City

The 26 competitive fixtures between these two sides stretch all the way back to February 1911 and have played out with Newcastle holding a modest edge in the overall ledger, banking 12 wins to Hull's seven with seven matches drawn along the way.

Six of those meetings have come in the Premier League era, and the top-flight sample sits at perfect parity with two wins, two draws and two defeats apiece across the two clubs.

Hull remain the only club to have played more than one Premier League fixture at St James' Park without losing on Tyneside, having recorded a 2-1 victory in 2008 and a 3-2 win in 2013 sandwiched around a 2-2 draw in September 2014, when the hosts rescued a point after twice trailing.

The two teams last met in the top flight in the 2014-15 season, when the aforementioned Tyneside stalemate was followed by a 3-0 Magpies triumph at the KCOM Stadium in January 2015 courtesy of goals from Remy Cabella, Sammy Ameobi and Yoan Gouffran.

Newcastle and Hull have not crossed paths in any competition since November 2016, when the Tigers edged a 3-1 penalty-shootout victory on home turf after a 1-1 draw across 120 minutes in the fifth round of the EFL Cup at what is now the MKM Stadium.

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Our Newcastle United vs Hull City prediction and tips

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