Newcastle vs Tottenham team news: Spurs youngster Kyle Walker-Peters makes first competitive start as Moussa Sissoko also makes rare appearance

FACT ME

• This will be a repeat of Newcastle’s last Premier League game in May 2016 – when they thrashed Spurs 5-1 at St James’ Park.
• There have been 14 goals scored in the last three Premier League meetings between these two clubs at St James’ Park.
• The Magpies have won only one opening match across their last nine league seasons, but that came against Spurs; 2-1 in 2012 (D4 L4).
• Rafa Benitez has not lost any of his previous eight Premier League home games as a manager against Spurs (W5 D3 L0).

• This is the seventh successive Premier League season that Tottenham will play their opening Premier League game away from home.
• Harry Kane is one goal away from a century for Spurs in all competitions – he has netted 99 goals in 165 games so far, including hat-tricks in his two previous appearances.
• Kane has scored 20 goals in his last 15 Premier League games against newly promoted sides – three of his six top-flight hat-tricks have been against newly promoted teams (Leicester in 2014-15, Bournemouth in 2015-16 and Hull last season).

• However, Kane has never scored a Premier League goal in August (10 games).
• Newcastle striker Dwight Gayle averaged a goal every 93 minutes in the Championship last season, scoring 23 goals; he also scored in his last top-flight appearance against Spurs for Crystal Palace in January 2015.
• None of the last nine winners of the Championship have won their first match in the Premier League after promotion (D2 L7). The last team to achieve this were Sunderland in August 2007, who beat Tottenham on the opening day thanks to a late strike from Michael Chopra.
• Christian Eriksen was involved in the build up sequence to 253 open play shots last season in the Premier League; more than any other player in the competition.

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