Newcastle United have now won five consecutive Premier League games for the first time since April 2023, while Tottenham Hotspur have gone six league games without a home win (D2 L4) for the first time since October 2008 (D3 L5).
Aleksander Isak has now scored in seven consecutive Premier League matches for Newcastle United, becoming the third player to do so for the Magpies after Alan Shearer (September-November 1996) and Joe Willock (April-May 2021).
There have been 192 goals scored in the 60 Premier League matches between Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United, an average of 3.2 per game, making it the highest scoring fixture on average in the competition’s history (minimum of 50 meetings).
Tottenham have won two of their last three Premier League home games against Newcastle (L1), as many as they had in their previous seven (D1 L4).
Newcastle have won four of their last five Premier League games against Tottenham (L1), as many as they had in their previous 15 (D2 L9).
Having achieved a Premier League double over Spurs in just one of 12 campaigns between 2008-09 and 2021-22 (2015-16), Newcastle could now do so in two of the last three (also 2022-23).
Tottenham vs Newcastle is the most played Premier League fixture never to finish 0-0 (59 meetings). There have been 189 goals scored in games between the sides, the third highest scoring fixture in Premier League history.
Tottenham have lost their first league game in two of the last five calendar years (W2 D1), as many times as they had in the previous 16 years combined (W11 D3).