EDDIE Howe plans to name a completely different team to the one that played against Chelsea as Newcastle bring the curtain down on their Premier League Summer Series campaign against Brighton tonight.

Other than changing goalkeepers at half-time against Chelsea with Nick Pope coming through 45 minutes unscathed in his first outing since having finger surgery, Howe wanted his starting outfield players to get as many minutes under their belt as possible, only "going on gut feeling" to make three very late substitutions.

And he plans to do exactly the same with a completely different XI against Brighton in New Jersey, which kicks off at 12.30am UK time tomorrow morning.

"We'll change everybody, or we hope to," said Howe, with Harvey Barnes, Bruno Guimaraes and Callum Wilson among those who'll come into the side.

"With two games in three days we thought that was the right thing to do."

Howe continued: "We tried to go with one XI (against Chelsea) and tried to get them to go for as long as we could, 90 minutes if possible.

"We were hoping to get 90 in for as many as possible, then I'm going on gut feeling towards the end, thinking who do we need to protect. I'm speaking to my staff as well to make sure we avoid injuries as well, because that's when we're most at risk."

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The only fresh injury concern against Chelsea came early on when Fabian Schar was forced off, but Howe said the initial feeling was that it was hamstring tightness rather than a pull. The defender continues to be monitored.

It's been a tough week on the training pitch for Newcastle's players, so Howe saw some of the signs of fatigue that he expected against Chelsea and it'll be the same against Brighton.

He said: "The players have done really well physically because it's been a hard week for them. They've had no mental escape, other than the baseball.

"It's been a lot of training, a lot of hard work and I think we came into the (Chelsea) game again slightly fatigued. We wouldn't train as hard before a Premier League game."