Newcastle vs Liverpool Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics
📊Newcastle have lost their last four Premier League games against Liverpool, last losing more consecutively against them between March 1997-December 1998 (5).
📊Liverpool won this exact fixture 3-2 last season – they haven’t won back-to-back league games at St James’ Park since December 2008.
📊Liverpool have scored more Premier League goals against Newcastle than they have vs any other side in the competition (101).
📊Newcastle have won their final league match in each of the last five seasons, by an aggregate score of 17-1. Their last such defeat came against Liverpool in the 2013-14 campaign (1-2).
📊When finishing the Premier League campaign away from home on MD38, Liverpool haven’t won their final league game since 2007-08 (2-0 vs Tottenham), drawing two and losing three since then.
📊The Premier League champions haven’t lost their final league game in their title-winning campaign since 2006-07 (Manchester United 0-1 West Ham). Newcastle have faced the champions on the final day of the season twice in the Premier League and are yet to lose, drawing with and beating Chelsea in 2004-05 and 2005-06 respectively.
📊Liverpool have earned 96 points in this season’s Premier League; a win here will see them surpass their club record for most points earned in any league campaign, overtaking both their tally of 97 last season and 98 in 1978-79 (when adjusted to three points for a win). Indeed, the only club to reach 99 or more points (assuming three/win all-time) in a top-flight season in England were Manchester City in 2017-18 (100).
📊Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has been involved in five goals in his last four Premier League games against Newcastle (4 goals, 1 assist), finding the net in each of these matches.
📊Jonjo Shelvey is Newcastle’s highest Premier League goalscorer this season with six goals – as it stands, it’s the lowest scoring top scorer the Magpies have had in a league campaign since 2000-01 (Carl Cort and Nolberto Solano, 6).
📊Andy Robertson (27) and Trent Alexander-Arnold (26) are the top two defenders for most Premier League assists for Liverpool, ahead of Stig Inge Bjornebye (25). Indeed, of the six occasions of a defender reaching 10+ assists in a Premier League season at any club, four have been by Robertson or Alexander-Arnold in the last two campaigns (also Leighton Baines in 2010-11 and Andy Hinchcliffe in 1994-95).
🗓️ Sunday, 26 July 2020
⌚ 8:00 pm GMT+5
🏆 Premier League Round 38
👕 Anthony Taylor
🏟️ St. James' Park, Newcastle
📊Newcastle have lost their last four Premier League games against Liverpool, last losing more consecutively against them between March 1997-December 1998 (5).
📊Liverpool won this exact fixture 3-2 last season – they haven’t won back-to-back league games at St James’ Park since December 2008.
📊Liverpool have scored more Premier League goals against Newcastle than they have vs any other side in the competition (101).
📊Newcastle have won their final league match in each of the last five seasons, by an aggregate score of 17-1. Their last such defeat came against Liverpool in the 2013-14 campaign (1-2).
📊When finishing the Premier League campaign away from home on MD38, Liverpool haven’t won their final league game since 2007-08 (2-0 vs Tottenham), drawing two and losing three since then.
📊The Premier League champions haven’t lost their final league game in their title-winning campaign since 2006-07 (Manchester United 0-1 West Ham). Newcastle have faced the champions on the final day of the season twice in the Premier League and are yet to lose, drawing with and beating Chelsea in 2004-05 and 2005-06 respectively.
📊Liverpool have earned 96 points in this season’s Premier League; a win here will see them surpass their club record for most points earned in any league campaign, overtaking both their tally of 97 last season and 98 in 1978-79 (when adjusted to three points for a win). Indeed, the only club to reach 99 or more points (assuming three/win all-time) in a top-flight season in England were Manchester City in 2017-18 (100).
📊Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has been involved in five goals in his last four Premier League games against Newcastle (4 goals, 1 assist), finding the net in each of these matches.
📊Jonjo Shelvey is Newcastle’s highest Premier League goalscorer this season with six goals – as it stands, it’s the lowest scoring top scorer the Magpies have had in a league campaign since 2000-01 (Carl Cort and Nolberto Solano, 6).
📊Andy Robertson (27) and Trent Alexander-Arnold (26) are the top two defenders for most Premier League assists for Liverpool, ahead of Stig Inge Bjornebye (25). Indeed, of the six occasions of a defender reaching 10+ assists in a Premier League season at any club, four have been by Robertson or Alexander-Arnold in the last two campaigns (also Leighton Baines in 2010-11 and Andy Hinchcliffe in 1994-95).
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