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Newcastle United vs Chelsea live stream and match preview, Saturday 12 November, 5.30pm GMT
Newcastle United vs Chelsea live stream and match preview
Looking for a Newcastle United vs Chelsea live stream? We’ve got you covered.
The Magpies are the Premier League’s form team heading into the weekend. No team in the division has a better record over the last six rounds of fixtures, which have seen Newcastle (opens in new tab) collect 16 points from a possible 18.
Eddie Howe’s side, who have only lost one match all season, have risen up to third place in the table, fuelling hope that they could be ready to mount a push for Champions League qualification this term. That would be a fantastic achievement for a team that was rooted to the foot of the table at the equivalent stage of the 2021/22 campaign.
Howe has certainly been helped by the fact Newcastle have spent upwards of £200m in the last two transfer windows, but he has nevertheless done a superb job since replacing Steve Bruce. It is especially notable that Newcastle have the joint-best defensive record in the Premier League this season.
Graham Potter has found things harder going at Chelsea (opens in new tab) of late, with the Blues having dropped down to seventh spot in the standings after a run of four games without a win. Chelsea were also beaten in midweek, going down 2-0 to Manchester City (opens in new tab) in the third round of the Carabao Cup.
Potter is a manager who will need time to get his ideas across. It will be intriguing to see whether he gets it at Chelsea, one of the most trigger-happy clubs in the Premier League over the last 20 years.
Newcastle will have to make do without Alex Isak, Matt Ritchie, Paul Dummett and Emil Krafth. Callum Wilson should be available following a bout of illness.
Chelsea will be unable to call upon the services of Ben Chilwell, N’Golo Kante, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Wesley Fofana and Reece James, while Jorginho will need to undergo a late fitness test.
Form
Newcastle United: WWWWD
Chelsea: LLDDW
Referee
Robert Jones will be the referee for Newcastle United vs Chelsea.
Stadium
Newcastle United vs Chelsea will be played at St James’ Park.
Other games
Newcastle United vs Chelsea is the only match taking place in this timeslot.
Kick-off and channel
Kick-off is at 5.30pm GMT on Saturday 12 November and the match is being shown on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football (opens in new tab) in the UK. See below for international broadcast options.
VPN guide
If you’re out of the country for a round of Premier League fixtures, then annoyingly your domestic on-demand services won’t work – the broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!). You’ll be blocked from watching it, which is not ideal if you’ve paid up for a subscription and still want to catch the action without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.
But assistance is on hand. To get around that, all you have to do is get a Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs. A VPN creates a private connection between your device and t’internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and won’t automatically block the service you’ve paid for. All the info going between is entirely encrypted – and that’s a result.
There are plenty of good-value options out there, and FourFourTwo currently recommends:
International Premier League TV rights
• UK: Sky Sports (opens in new tab) and BT Sport (opens in new tab) are the two main players once again, but Amazon (opens in new tab) also have a slice of the pie in 2022/23.
• USA: NBC Sports Group are the Premier League rights holders, with the Peacock Premium (opens in new tab) streaming platform showing even more than the 175 games it aired last season. If you pick up a fuboTV subscription (opens in new tab) for the games not on Peacock Premium, you’ll be able to watch every game.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2022/23 is fuboTV (opens in new tab), which has exclusive rights to all the action.
• Australia: Optus Sport (opens in new tab) will screen every game of the Premier League season. Non-subscribers can access the action via a Fetch TV box (opens in new tab) and other friendly streaming devices.
• New Zealand: Sky Sport (opens in new tab) are serving up all 380 games – plus various highlights and magazine shows throughout the week, as well as the Champions League.
