The game was originally meant to be played on Saturday, 14th April at 3pm. In the reverse fixture – contested at the Emirates Stadium in December – a fine Mesut Özil volley condemned the Magpies to a narrow defeat.

The dates for United’s other Premier League fixtures in April – trips to Leicester City on the 7th and Everton on the 21st, as well as the visit of Alan Pardew’s West Bromwich Albion on the 28th – remain unchanged.