The Baggies will arrive on Tyneside to revisit the scene of a remarkable fightback on the final day of the last Premier League season. With both promoted teams already comfortably safe, the Magpies raced into a 3-0 lead by half-time and were odds-on to claim a creditable 10th-place finish. However, to Pardew's horror, Somen Tchoyi plundered a second-half hat-trick to snatch an unlikely draw which not only forced Newcastle down into 12th place, but allowed arch rivals Sunderland to leapfrog them into the top 10. Pardew said: "It was a shame, and it came on the last day of the season as well. I had to suffer that on my holidays. "They did marvellously well to come back. We switched off, and it just goes to show you that you cannot switch off for any part of the season in this Premier League. "West Brom actually didn't have anything to play for, but their pride and their natural instincts got them the three goals and it cost us three positions in the league." This time around, the fixture represents a clash between the sides currently sitting in seventh and 13th places respectively with the Magpies having slipped out of the top four as a result of a five-game winless run. There are mitigating circumstances - they faced top two Manchester City and Manchester United and then Chelsea in successive weekends - but just a single point from a trip to Norwich and Swansea's visit to the north-east on Saturday was less than expected despite an injury and suspension crisis. However, victory over Roy Hodgson's men would give them 30 points from their opening 17 games - a target Pardew had initially set for New Year's Day. He said: "I have got a target of January 1 if we could get that, because that gives us the Liverpool game as well. "That would be marvellous if we could do that. We will have to wait and see. We need to win a game, that's for sure." Influential midfielder Yohan Cabaye will sit out the game after collecting his fifth booking of the season at the weekend and striker Peter Lovenkrands could miss up to three weeks with a calf injury. In addition, Pardew will make late checks on full-back Ryan Taylor and midfielder Danny Guthrie, who have ankle and groin problems respectively. Cabaye's absence deprives the manager of one of his most consistent performers. The 25-year-old Frenchman, a £4.8million summer signing from Lille, has started each of the club's 16 league games to date, and although Cheick Tiote returned from a near two-month injury lay-off against Swansea, he will be missed. Pardew was yet to decide how to replace Cabaye as he conducted his pre-match press conference, but hinted that youngsters Mehdi Abeid and Haris Vuckic, who were among the substitutes along with Hatem Ben Arfa at the weekend, could come into the reckoning. French-born Algerian Abeid, 19, made an impressive first-team debut for the club in the Carling Cup third-round tie at Nottingham Forest on September 20, and the Magpies have high hopes for a player they recruited from Lens during the summer. Pardew said: "He's got a good attitude to the game. He can pass it. He has got a lot of energy. "He's a player we like a lot and we are hoping there's a big future for him here."
