Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe will assess knocks on Jamal Lewis and Federico Fernandez in the latest leg of the club's mini European tour. Both players are edging closer towards playing in pre-season after watching from the stands against 1860 Munich and Mainz 05.
The former Argentina international did not train in the latter part of the trip to Austria last week while former Norwich City star Jamal Lewis trained alone with the physio. Howe is expected to give both players a chance after they played bit-part roles last season.
Lewis was not registered for Howe's 25-man Premier League squad last January but the Toon boss has hinted he will assess him this summer. Newcastle now face a couple of games in Portugal starting with a behind closed doors training game against Burnley culminating with a clash against Benfica on Tuesday evening.