Newcastle United vs Burnley Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Newcastle are unbeaten in their last seven home league games against Burnley (W3 D4), including all four meetings in the Premier League (W1 D3).
Burnley's last league win at Newcastle was back in April 1976 (1-0). Burnley have kept a clean sheet in each of their last two Premier League meetings with Newcastle, as many as they had in their previous 14 top-flight matches against the Magpies.
50% of the eight Premier League meetings between Newcastle and Burnley have ended level, with each side winning two games apiece.
Newcastle have won just one of their last eight home league games (D4 L3), losing each of their last three in a row conceding three goals each time.
Only Crystal Palace (April 1998) and Fulham (March 2014) have ever lost four consecutive Premier League home games while conceding 3+ goals each time.
Newcastle have scored with all three of their shots on target so far in the Premier League this season, netting with both against West Ham on MD1, one against Spurs last time out, and failing to register one against Brighton in the other.
Burnley haven't begun a league campaign with three straight defeats since 2003-04 in the second tier, while the last time they did so in the top-flight was in 1927-28.
Burnley have scored in each of their last five away Premier League games (W3 D1 L 1 ), last having a longer run of finding the net on the road between April-October 2017 (7 games).
Only goalless Sheffield United have a lower shot conversion rate than Burnley in the Premier League this season, with the Clarets netting just 7.7% of their attempts so far (2/26).
Newcastle's Karl Darlow has made more saves than any other goalkeeper in the Premier League so far this season (18).
The Englishman made 11 saves alone in Newcastle's 1-1 draw with Tottenham last time out. Newcastle's Jeff Hendrick scored nine goals in 122 Premier League appearances for Burnley, and he could become just the third player to score for and against the Clarets in the competition after Andre Gray and Danny lngs.
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