Newcastle manager Alan Pardew is confident his side can win the Europa League as they prepare to face Russian outfit Anzhi Makhachkala for a place in the quarter-finals on Thursday.

Newcastle travel to Russia for the first leg under a cloud of an uncertainty, the club missing a host of players, facing an expensively assembled squad and the unknown particulars of playing on an artificial surface.

But that has not stopped Pardew from instilling a belief in his squad that they ...

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