NEWCASTLE strikers Alexander Isak and Callum Wilson are facing a race against time to be fit for tonight’s crucial Premier League showdown with Manchester United.

The Magpies head for Old Trafford sitting sixth in the table, two places and three points better off than the hosts and knowing a positive result would mean Erik ten Hag’s men could not catch them on the final day of the campaign and that another season of European football would be tantalisingly close.

However, the in-form Isak, who had scored in each of his previous seven games at St James’ Park, was out of sorts in Saturday’s 1-1 home draw with Brighton and Wilson did not make the matchday squad with both having gone down with illness, and neither trained on Monday.