MatchNewcastle v Liverpool: 11 stats on St. James' Park clash

Having collected four points from their opening two matches of the season, Jürgen Klopp’s team next travel to St. James’ Park.

It is a 4.30pm BST kick-off on Sunday and you can read a statistical preview of the game below…

The Reds have won 33 and lost 11 of 56 Premier League clashes with Newcastle, while at St. James’ Park they have won 11, drawn seven and lost 10.

Liverpool have scored in all but four of their last 32 league meetings with Newcastle home and away.

There has only been one 0-0 draw in the last 74 league encounters (and 79 in all competitions) – in December 2020 at St. James’ Park – a run dating back to February 1974.

In their last six trips to Newcastle the Reds are unbeaten, with four wins and two draws, which is already a club-record run.

The Reds have scored 113 goals against the Magpies in the Premier League era – more than they have versus any other team.

Forty-six of that total have been produced away from home; only at West Ham United have they scored as many.

Liverpool’s last hat-trick against Newcastle was provided by Michael Owen at Anfield in May 2001. It is one of seven scored by Reds players past the Magpies.

Diogo Jota has scored eight times in his last 11 Premier League appearances, averaging a goal every 75 minutes in that sequence.

Newcastle began this campaign with a 5-1 home win over Aston Villa (Sandro Tonali, Alexander Isak twice, Callum Wilson and Harvey Barnes scoring) and were then beaten 1-0 at Manchester City.

At home in the league last season Eddie Howe’s side won 11 and drew six, with the two defeats occurring against Liverpool and Arsenal – both by a 2-0 scoreline.

Newcastle full-back Javier Manquillo played 19 times for the Reds in 2014-15 while on loan from Atletico Madrid.