NEWCASTLE accept Benfica today trying to overturn a 3-1 debt after the leg in Lisbon and Papiss Cisse feels he is reaching form at only the proper time. Francisco Seco/AP Picture PAPISS CISSE has informed Benfica he is straight back on the target walk as he attempts to fire Newcastle in to the Europa League semi-finals. The Senegal global has obtained in four of his last six games to take his tally for the campaign to 12 but, with possibilities starting to get to larger numbers, he's confident of improving on his series of simple, if usually definitive, strikes. Cisse said: "Absolutely. I have been obtaining a lot of possibilities, I've been fortunate to score one in suits and I think this will improve my concentration and improve my attitude. "If I keep spending so much time, hopefully I will manage to turn out with a brace or even a hat-trick." Cisse and his team-mates headed into probably the greatest week of their period up to now on the back of a Barclays Premier League success over Fulham, which arrived due to the frontman's injury-time winner. They face derby rivals Sunderland at St James' Park on Sunday in a game title that could either ease them clear of the struggle for top-flight survival, or drop them back into the relegation picture. That, coupled with tonight's European series, represents an integral four-day spell for the Magpies, nonetheless it is one they are relishing. Cisse said: "It is exciting, really exciting for us. Obviously there's force, that's absolutely normal and understandable, but participants would like to move out there and play. "That is our job, that's what we do and it is a really pleasure to be able to do that." and get on the market The chance may be got by hatem Ben Arfa to do that despite having been ruled out for the season with a prolonged hamstring problem. Director Alan Pardew unmasked recently that the mercurial France international has made an amazing recovery and is likely to be involved in the 18 today. Pardew said: "We were traditional in or method when he re-injured his hamstring - when I say re-injured, he did not really re-injure it, he wasn't confident about it. "We only said, 'That is him done this season ', and I think it absolutely was a good mindset for him to prove us wrong. "He has come back with a different mindset, and his mindset is that it feels much stronger in the hamstring. "The tests show that the hamstring, though not completely restored - and with the kind of damage he has had, it probably will not be for another seven or eight weeks - the assurance is in his head that it's done, that he's okay, and that is critical. "He might be the end of the season and an figure between now, and influential also tomorrow. He has shown good form in training for two or three days. "He has looked much better, much stronger than when he came ultimately back before. There was certainly question in his mind in regards to the energy of the hamstring, and with hamstring accidents often, it is how confident you're feeling. "He certainly looks and feels ready this time." Newcastle United v Benfica begins at 8.05pm this evening and will soon be televised survive ITV4.
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