Erik ten Haag really has turned around the season for Manchester United. They are placed third in the table at the moment, and for the first time in many years they are on the verge of lifting a trophy. Encouraged after a great game and victory over Barcelona, ​​Manchester United players will enter this match with great confidence. Although it sounded incredible at the beginning of the season, Manchester still has a chance to win the trophy in all 4 competitions in which they compete. In the Premier League, they are in a very good third position, 8 points behind the leader Arsenal. The form in which they are playing is at an extremely high level, since the beginning of the year they have played 18 matches and experienced only one defeat. After a long time, the atmosphere in and around the team is at a very high level and it seems that things are slowly returning to normal at United. Winning the first trophy after a long time would certainly raise the mood in the team to an even higher level and it seems that at the moment they are closer to winning this match than Newcastle.

After a fantastic start to the season, Newcastle slowly began to falter. Perhaps it was expected, because they really played maximum offensive and fast football. The last games are not at all similar to those from the start of the season and in the last 5 games in the league they have only one victory. The drop in form is evident, both in attack and defense. They don't create chances so easily anymore, and at one point the best defense in the league failed to keep a clean sheet in the last 4 matches. The defense of their own goal will be the biggest challenge for them in this match. Newcastle will not be able to count on perhaps the best goalkeeper in the league, Nick Pope, because of the red card. Their backup goalkeeper, Dubravka, is also not available to the team because he is on loan from Manchester United. So the choice fell on Loris Karius, who has not played in a competitive game for months. He was remembered for his incredible mistakes in the Champions League final while he was on Liverpool`s goal, and he will definitely be under a lot of pressure in this match. The stakes are certainly huge for both teams, but I have to give a slight advantage to United, who are playing really well and as a team they seem to be doing a lot better lately.

埃里克腾哈格确实为曼联扭转了这个赛季的颓势。他们目前在积分榜上排名第三，多年来第一次处于举起奖杯的边缘。在一场伟大的比赛和战胜巴萨后受到鼓舞，曼联球员将满怀信心地参加这场比赛。尽管在赛季初听起来不可思议，但曼彻斯特仍然有机会在他们参加的所有 4 项比赛中赢得奖杯。在英超联赛中，他们处于非常不错的第三位置，落后领头羊阿森纳8分。他们的状态非常好，自今年年初以来，他们打了 18 场比赛，只输过一场。很长一段时间后，球队内部和周围的气氛都处于非常高的水平，曼联似乎正在慢慢恢复正常。久违的第一座奖杯肯定会让全队的士气更上一层楼水平，目前看来他们比纽卡斯尔更接近赢得这场比赛。

在本赛季取得了出色的开局之后，纽卡斯尔慢慢开始步履蹒跚。也许这是预料之中的，因为他们真的发挥了最大的进攻性和快速足球。最近的比赛与赛季初的比赛完全不同，在联赛的最后5场比赛中他们只赢了一场。状态下降很明显，无论是进攻还是防守。他们不再那么容易创造机会了，联盟最好的防守一度在过去的 4 场比赛中未能保持零失球。自己球门的防守将是本场比赛对他们最大的挑战。由于红牌，纽卡斯尔可能无法指望联盟中最好的守门员尼克波普。他们的替补门将杜布拉夫卡也无法为球队效力，因为他是从曼联租借来的。所以选择权落在了洛里斯·卡里乌斯 (Loris Karius) 身上，他已经个月。他因在欧冠决赛中为利物浦破门而犯下的令人难以置信的失误而被人们铭记，而他在这场比赛中肯定会承受很大的压力。对两支球队来说实力很接近，但我必须给曼联带来一点优势，他们踢得非常好，作为一个团队，他们最近似乎做得更好。