Newcastle have won each of their last six Premier League games against Burnley – in their top-flight history, only against Bury between 1903 and 1906 have they ever won seven in a row.
Burnley are winless in all seven of their Premier League away games against Newcastle (D3 L4), with their last league victory at St James’ Park coming in April 1976 (D4 L6 since).
Newcastle have lost just one of their last 27 Premier League games against promoted sides (W17 D9), going down 1-0 at Luton in December 2023. Their last such home defeat was against Leeds in January 2021 (W7 D5 since).
No team have conceded the first goal in fewer Premier League games than Newcastle this season (2, level with Crystal Palace). However, no team has dropped more points having opened the scoring than the Magpies (11, level with Brentford).
Burnley have lost seven of their last eight Premier League away games (W1), conceding at least twice in all eight of these matches. Only in their first 11 away games in the competition between August 2009 and January 2010 have they had a longer run conceding 2+ in the Premier League.
Burnley have lost each of their last five Premier League games, only once having a longer run in the competition (6 in October/November 2023). The Clarets have also had the fewest shots of any Premier League side this term (115).
Newcastle boss Eddie Howe has lost just one of his last 22 Premier League meetings with a fellow English manager (W12 D9), going down 3-0 at Sean Dyche’s Everton in December 2023. Meanwhile, this is Burnley boss Scott Parker’s first top-flight game against an English manager since a 2-0 win over Steven Gerrard’s Aston Villa with Bournemouth in August 2022.
Burnley’s Zian Flemming has scored in each of his first three away Premier League starts – the only player to score in each of his first four away starts in the competition is Erling Haaland in August/September 2022.
Bruno Guimarães has either scored (3) or assisted (1) a goal in each of his last four Premier League home games, with all four of these involvements putting Newcastle a goal ahead in the match.
Zian Flemming has scored in each of his last three Premier League away games, netting four goals in total in this run. No Burnley player has ever scored in four in a row on the road in the competition.
