Allgemeines » Newcastle starts the season against Fulham on Friday

PITTSBURGH (4-5) at CLEVELAND (0-10)Sunday, 1 p.m. ET, CBSOPENING LINE -- Steelers by 7 1/2RECORD VS. SPREAD -- Steelers 4-5, Browns 2-8SERIES RECORD -- Steelers lead 70-58LAST MEETING -- Steelers beat Browns 28-12, Jan. 3, 2016LAST WEEK -- Steelers lost 35-30 to Cowboys; Browns lost 28-7 to RavensAP PRO32 RANKING -- Steelers No. 18, Browns No. 32STEELERS OFFENSE -- OVERALL (11), RUSH (25), PASS (4)STEELERS DEFENSE -- OVERALL (25), RUSH (15), PASS (28)BROWNS OFFENSE -- OVERALL (28), RUSH (22), PASS (27)BROWNS DEFENSE -- OVERALL (31), RUSH (31), PASS (27)STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES -- After 4-1 start, Steelers have dropped four straight and need win or risk falling behind pack in playoff races. ... Snow is in forecast as bitter rivals meet for first time this season. Theyll play finale on Jan. 1 in Pittsburgh. ... Steelers have lost five in row just once in coach Mike Tomlins 10-year tenure (2009). ... Tomlin is 15-3 vs. Browns. ... Cleveland is first of four road games over next five weeks for Pittsburgh, just 1/3 away from home. ... Steelers defense suffered blow this week as DE Cam Heyward was lost for season with upper-body injury. ... Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger is 19-2 in starts -- 20-2 overall -- against Browns, has thrown for 5,323 yards in career against Cleveland. ... Browns passed on chance to draft Roethlisberger, Ohio native, in 2004 and Big Ben joked this week that I am kind of over that. ... Roethlisberger completed 37 of 46 passes for season-high 406 yards and three TDs last week in loss. ... WR Antonio Brown caught 14 passes for 154 yards and TD last week. ... Steelers are 28-6 against Browns since 1999. ... Browns are 0-10 for first time in team history and have dropped 13 straight games since last season. ... Browns enter game with 416-416-10 record. They have never been below .500 in franchise history. ... Browns are 14-44 since Jimmy and Dee Haslam took over as owners. ... Browns begin stretch of three straight home games. ... Rookie QB Cody Kessler will start after being pulled in second half last week. Kesslers days as starter could be dwindling with Robert Griffin III expected to return from broken shoulder bone in next few weeks. ... Kessler has thrown just one interception but only six TD passes in seven starts. Kessler has attempted 119 straight passes without pick. ... LB Christian Kirksey had 13 tackles last week and according to NFL.com leads league with 94 total tackles. ... Browns have been outscored 60-8 in second half over past three games. ... Fantasy Tip: Browns have struggled to cover tight ends all season, which could open things up for Steelers TE Jesse James. He enters with 28 catches for 231 yards and three touchdowns.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL Nike Tn For Sale Nz . 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Rafa Benitez was overseeing preseason training sessions involving Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Toni Kroos this time last year, preparing Real Madrid for a shot at the Champions League and an annual La Liga title fight with Barcelona.Things are very different for the Spanish coach 12 months on.Benitez finds himself in the second tier of English soccer, one day away from starting his bid to guide Newcastle back into the Premier League. He is perhaps the most high-profile manager to coach in the League Championship, with trips ahead to the likes of Huddersfield, Rotherham and Barnsley.Benitez didnt have to be in this position. After failing to keep Newcastle in the top flight in a 10-game stint as manager at the end of last season, he could have exercised a break clause in his contract and looked for another job. He surely would have found one, given his impressive resume that includes Champions League (Liverpool), Europa League (Chelsea) and Spanish league (Valencia) titles as well as spells with six leading European clubs.Yet, Benitez liked the passion of Newcastles fans. He was impressed by the size of the club with its 52,000-seater St. James Park stadium that dominates the northern city, and content with the control and financial backing he was promised from the board. So he agreed to a new three-year deal in May in a huge, surprise coup for Newcastle.And after an offseason of squad reshuffling and seemingly astute purchases, Newcastle starts the season against Fulham on Friday as the odds-on favorite with British bookmakers for promotion.After the last two months of last seeason, I knew the team, knew the players.dddddddddddd And I knew we had to change something to create a positive atmosphere, Benitez said Thursday. We know its very difficult, the Championship, and every game will be complicated but now we have the hope we can do well, the belief we can do well. That is the main thing at the beginning.Among the eight players brought in by Benitez are midfielders Mo Diame and Matt Ritchie, striker Dwight Gayle and defender Ciaran Clark. They have a mixture of Premier League know-how and experience of playing in -- and getting out of -- the grueling League Championship.In terms of the mentality of the team, it has changed a lot, said Benitez.Benitez isnt the only Champions League-winning manager coaching at this level this season. Roberto Di Matteo, who won European club soccers biggest prize with Chelsea in 2012, was hired by Aston Villa in the offseason and takes over a side playing out of the top division for the first time since 1988.Villa was the European champion in 1982. Nottingham Forest, the European Cup winner in 1979 and 80, is also in the Championship. Blackburn and Leeds, English champions in the 1990s, are in the division, too.There are big names throughout the second tier but Newcastle will be the team to beat.Newcastle, everybody knows, is a Premier League team -- a big name, a massive club, said Diame, who dropped down a division from Hull to sign for Newcastle. Well be back in the Premier League, Im sure. ' ' '