By Matt Jones
March 4 2006

Team news ahead of this afternoons Premiership home match against Bolton Wanderers. The game kicks-off at 1500 GMT and live commentry can be found on BBC Radio Five Live. Newcastle United Skipper Alan Shearer has been named in the squad and will undergo a late fitness test having sat out United's last three matches with a calf injury.

Trio Kieron Dyer, Titus Bramble and Craig Moore are making good progress in recovering from their respective injuries, anthough have not been considered for the game.

Michael Owen (foot), Stephen Carr (hernia), Steven Taylor (shoulder) are still out of action.

Bolton are hoping that El-Hadji Diouf is able to make a return having recovered from a double hernia operation.  It is expected that Diouf will play a bench role.

Nicky Hunt (suspended) will sit out the game however, while nine of Bolton's international players will have late assessed following their midweek matches.

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Bolton (from): Jaaskelainen, Walker, O'Brien, N'Gotty, Jaidi, Gardner, Faye, Speed, Okocha, Ben Haim, Nakata, Vaz Te, Nolan, Davies, Diouf, Giannakopoulos, Borgetti, Pedersen.

Newcastle (from): Given, Harper, Ramage, Babayaro, Boumsong, Elliott, Parker, N'Zogbia, Solano, Emre, Bowyer, Clark, Luque, Faye, Brittain, Pattison, O'Brien, Shearer, Ameobi, Chopra.

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