By Craig Hope

KEVIN Keegan believes that Newcastle United should look to this weekend's opponents Everton as the team they must leapfrog if the Magpies are to achieve next season's aim of a fifth-placed finish.

The Toffees need a just a point from Sunday's season finale to secure fifth position and qualify for the UEFA Cup.

And, having watched David Moyes achieve that success with fairly limited resource, Toon boss KK sees no reason why the Geordies cannot wrestle that position from the Merseysiders in the coming 12 months.

"This club is the fifth biggest club in the country so there's no reason for me to believe we cannot finish fifth," he said.

"That's our target next year and it's a very good target to set ourselves.

"David Moyes has done a fantastic job at Everton and they are the only team that have broken into that top four in recent years.

"Unfortunately in the following season they finished fairly low down the table because obviously you have more games and need a bigger squad.

"But with the resources David has got he's done a great job and it's up to us to catch them up.

"They are a bit like ourselves in that they haven't got a big squad, but it proves that it (top four finish) can be done.

"It's a good test for us on Sunday and it's very important that we go out there and put in a good performance.

"We need to take that first-half performance from the Chelsea game and play like that for 90 minutes, if we can do that then you'd have to fancy our chances of getting a result."