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Magpies name strong team to face Greeks
Magpies name strong team to face Greeks
7:21pm Thursday 30th August 2012 in Newcastle United News
By Paul Fraser, Chief Football Writer
ALAN PARDEW has taken few risks in his attempt to ensure Newcastle United make the group stage of the Europa League tonight.
The Magpies boss has named Fabricio Coloccini, Demba Ba, Danny Simpson and Tim Krul in his starting line-up to face Atromitos in the second leg of the final qualifying round at St James' Park.
Newcastle, with big hitters Yohan Cabaye and Papiss Cisse on the bench, are already nicely placed to progress after Ryan Taylor's away goal a week ago
in Athens claimed a 1-1 draw.
NEWCASTLE UNITED (4-2-3-1): Krul; Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini, R Taylor; Bigirimana, Perch; Obertan, Gosling, Marveaux; Ba. Subs (not used): Harper (gk), Cabaye, Cisse, Amalfitano, Vuckic,
Tavernier, Campbell.
ATROMITOS (4-3-3): Itandje; Skondras, Giannoulis, Lazaridis, Fytanidis; Iglesias, Dimoutsos, Brito; Karamanos, Da Silva, Epstein. Subs (not used): Radman (gk), Tavlaridis, Garcia, Nastos, Kuqi,
Beljic, Ballas.