Top-four rivals Newcastle and Tottenham clash at St James’ Park on Sunday and Ange Postecoglou’s Spurs look excellent value to leave the north east with three points.
The Magpies did well to see off Southampton 1-0 in their opener, having been reduced to 10 men in the 28th minute, but there was an element of fortune in their 1-1 draw with Bournemouth, with the Cherries having a late goal ruled out controversially.
Spurs will be disappointed to have been held to a 1-1 draw after dominating their first match at Leicester but they bounced back in fine style with a 4-0 thuumping of Everton.
Prediction
Tottenham were seriously impressive when hammering Everton 4-0 last weekend and they look good value to make it back-to-back wins by beating Newcastle at St James’ Park on Sunday.
Ange Postecoglou’s men hit 13 shots and 12 corners against the Toffees while they registered 15 shots and 13 corners in their Premier League opener against Leicester.
Postecoglou has beefed up his squad with the summer signings of Archie Gray, Wilson Odobert and Dominic Solanke, and while Solanke is unlikely to feature at St James’ Park, Spurs are a progressive and forward thinking side and they should be too good for Newcastle.
Eddie Howe has spoken of his frustration at the lack of incomings and the Toon Army could do with reinforcements given their lengthy injury list.
The Magpies have scored only three goals in their opening three matches of the season and they were fairly fortunate to get past Nottingham Forest in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday.