Friday football tips: Champions could enjoy pressure-free trip to Newcastle

Manchester City's Premier League title triumph was confirmed by Leicester's win at Manchester United on Tuesday while Fulham's defeat to Burnley on Monday secured Newcastle's top-flight status for another season.

With the pressure off, an entertaining contest is expected when City travel to St James' Park, where both teams have scored in ten of Newcastle's last 12 league games.

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St Patrick's to beat Drogheda

Espanyol to beat Cartagena

Manchester City to beat Newcastle

Braga to beat Moreirense

St Patrick's can frank the form of last month's home win over League of Ireland rivals Drogheda while promoted Espanyol and newly-crowned champions Manchester City should be too strong for their opponents in the Segunda Division and Premier League respectively.

Moreirense have struggled against the top teams in Portugal this term and Braga can complete a fourfold that pays more than 5-1 with Sky Bet.

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Newcastle v Manchester City

Sky Sports Main Event & Premier League 8pm Friday

Manchester City's defensive standards may drop a little having secured the title and Newcastle pose a decent attacking threat as they showed in last week's 4-2 win at third-placed Leicester.

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Best bet
Both teams to score

Bet of the day

Espanyol to win to nil v Cartagena 8pm Friday

Segunda Division leaders Espanyol have kept clean sheets in 12 of their 15 home wins this season and visitors Cartagena have scored just 14 times in 19 away games.

Cards bet of the day

Newcastle v Manchester City

Jonjo Shelvey has picked up eight yellow cards in 28 starts for Newcastle this season and the midfielder may well cross the line in his efforts to break up Manchester City's possession football. He is 7-2 with bet365 to be booked.

Best bet
Jonjo Shelvey to be shown a card

Stat of the day

Braga v Moreirense 9.15pm Friday

Moreirense have scored only one goal in seven away games against teams, like Braga, above them in the Primeira Liga

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