Lovenkrands starts for Newcastle at Swansea

PETER Lovenkrands returns to Newcastle's starting line-up for this lunchtime's televised Championship clash with Swansea. After being left on the bench at Derby despite scoring a second-half brace in the Magpies' previous game against Cardiff, Lovenkrands is back in the starting XI in place of Leon Best. Chris Hughton has made two more changes to the side that lost 3-0 at Pride Park on Tuesday. Fit-again centre-half Fabricio Coloccini replaces Mike Williamson in the back four, with Alan Smith returning to the midfield in place of the injured Jonas Gutierrez. SWANSEA (4-5-1): De Vries; Tate, Monk, Williams, Bessone; Allen, Pratley, Cotterill, Orlandi, Dyer; Kuqi. Subs: Cornell (gk), Butler, Pintado, Gower, Rangel, Trundle, Richards. NEWCASTLE (4-4-2): Harper; Simpson, Coloccini, Hall, van Aanholt; Routledge, Smith, Nolan, Guthrie; Carroll, Lovenkrands. Subs: Krul (gk), Williamson, R Taylor, Best, Pancrate, Kadar, Ranger.

Source: Northern_Echo