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Steve McClaren shares Newcastle dressing room mood after defeat

Everton face Newcastle at St. James’ Park in the Premier League on Boxing Day priced as bet365’s 6/5 favourites to take all three points back to Merseyside.

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“I felt very satisfied with the way we were performing throughout the game”. They came out of the blocks quicker than us, they controlled possession.

The Magpies defence will come up against an in-form striker Lukaku, who has scored in his last seven league appearances and is only two goals behind the league’s top-scorer, Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy (15).

Key Player: Romelu Lukaku – The powerful Belgian striker is starting to live up to the price tag for the Toffees and is becoming impossible to suppress. Expect him to cause Newcastle problems from the outset. If you’ve got both, then that’s what everybody is looking for.

These sides have both been knocking around the Premier League’s mid-table for a long time, which makes Everton’s recent domination of these fixtures rather surprising.

“If we can put that performance in like we did against a team like Everton, then hopefully we can go to West Brom and try to get a good result”.

“He’s an outstanding player who I don’t think has been given the right approach in the last two or three seasons”. Let’s see where we finish. “But whatever’s going to happen in our future is going to be good because we’re in a great position and the football club is in the best possible hands”.

Out: Steven Pienaar (hamstring); Tony Hibbert, Tyias Browning (knee). In doubt: Phil Jagielka (knee); Bryan Oviedo (hamstring); James McCarthy (groin); Steven Naismith (ankle).

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Asked how he would lift his players once again, McClaren said: “You have got to challenge them and they have got to challenge themselves, challenge each other”.

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