Carabao Cup 2023/2024 Manchester United Vs Newcastle United Prediction: Final 2023

Midfielder Christian Eriksen (left) became the mainstay of Manchester United's midfield when facing Newcastle United at the Carabao Cup.

JAKARTA - There is no guarantee that Manchester United will win while playing at home, Old Trafford Stadium. Likewise, when Manchester United hosted Newcastle United in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup, Thursday, November 2 in the morning WIB. Finally, the two teams met in the 2022/2023 final, which was won by MU at that time. But this time, Newcastle is more favored.

MU at Old Trafford in Manchester Derby last weekend. In that match Manchester City, one city rival, moved the training ground at United. There was no significant resistance when City won 3-0 over the Red Devils in the Premier League.

The results at Manchester Derby show that playing at Old Trafford no longer makes the owner feel certain to win. In fact, this season, MU has lost three times at home in various competitions. Including being eliminated by Brighton and Hove Albion, 3-1.

The defeat to Man City is also the seventh that MU has suffered this season. For the first time since 1986/1987, they have lost five times to the first 10 Premier League matches.

An inappropriate record for MU who once dominated the Premier League in the Sir Alex Ferguson era. Meanwhile, manager Erik ten Hag argued that the team could not be equated with Ajax Amsterdam he had handled.

Even though he has brought seven players who have played Ajax, Ten Hag has not been able to duplicate his success story with the Dutch Eredivisie club to MU.

"MU doesn't have DNA like Ajax which has the characteristics and characteristics of the game," said Ten Hag.

"But we also won't play with football like that [Ajax's style of playing], because this team has a lot of different players," he said.

MU must forget the defeat at Manchester Derby as soon as possible because of the match that was no less tough against Newcastle in the Carabao Cup.

This is a final repeat last season. At that time, MU won 2-0 and ended the trophy fast. Even at that time MU dared to claim that there would be a trophy tsunami.

But what happened was not a trophy tsunami but a tsunami of injured players. One of them is Leandro Martinez. MU finally failed in the FA Cup, Europa League and Premier League. The trend continued when MU entered a new season.

Newcastle is not MU's light opponent for showing consistency. They successfully slaughtered Paris Saint-Germain 4-1 in the Champions League and won 4-0 over Crystal Palace.

Only after the victory over Palace, the Magpies were defeated by Borussia Dortmund 1-0 and finally drew 2-2 against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In that match, Ten Hag rotated the players by not playing Casemiro and Aaron Wan-Bissaka midfielders who were not fit to face Newcastle. Casemiro was replaced by Sofyan Amrabat who had a duet with Christian Eriksen.

On the front lines, Rasmus Hojlund's centre forward became the mainstay as the spearhead. However, Marcus Rashford was not taken down because Alejandro Garnacho was given the opportunity to start with Antony and Mason Mount who replaced Bruno Fernandes.

Defender Raphael Varane will have a duet with Harry Maguire because Martinez is still injured. Goalkeeper Andre Onana remains an option over Altay Bayindir.

Newcastle also carried out a squad reshuffle following the ban on playing imposed on midfielder Sandro Tonali over a case of football addiction.

Defender Kieran Trippier is also not played. The backline quartet is filled with 20-year-old defenders Tino Livramento, Fabian Schar, Jamaal Lasceles, and Matt Targett.

Midfielder Bruno Guimaraes remains the first choice with Joe Willock and Joelinton. Meanwhile, Miguel Almiron and Callum Wilson will support Anthony Gordon.

Newcastle, who played away matches, did not mean they were not seeded. They are predicted to make MU even worse and get rid of it in the Carabao Cup. It's just that if MU is able to rise, the defending champion can overcome The Toons Army.