Football / Bunker Nuggets

Fixture History

·         Liverpool are looking for a fourth straight win over Newcastle in the PL and in their last three wins have outscored them 11 goals to one 

·         Earlier in the season Liverpool were 5-1 winners at St James’s Park over the Christmas period 

·         Liverpool have an excellent record over Newcastle at Anfield with 12 wins, two draws and just the one defeat

·         Newcastle’s only win at Anfield was back in their first ever PL meeting there when United left with a 2-0 back in April 1994 with goals from Rob Lee and Andy Cole 

·         Liverpool are looking to make it five in a row at Anfield since the sides drew 1-1 back in May 2005    

·         Newcastle have not scored in their last three visits to Anfield and have gone 328 minutes since Patrick Kluivert scored in December 2004 

·         Overall in this fixture Liverpool lead the way with 18 wins, Newcastle have seven and just six matches have ended as draws

·         Michael Owen is the only player to have scored a hat trick in this fixture and has scored one at both Anfield and St James’s Park 

·         Liverpool have scored in the last 15 matches between the two sides at Anfield

·         Liverpool’s most popular winning score over Newcastle at Anfield in 2-0 and 3-0 which has happened on three occasions each     

·         Never been a 0-0 in this fixture in the PL

 

Current Season

·         16 places between the two clubs in the league table with Liverpool challenging for the title and Newcastle battling to avoid the drop

·         Liverpool have won nine games by a single goal whilst Newcastle have lost nine games by a single goal 

·         Newcastle have fallen behind in 20 PL matches this season and never come back to win one, drawing six and losing 14

·         Liverpool have fallen behind 11 times this season and come back to win six times, draw four times and have only been beaten the once, and twice have comeback from 1-0 deficits to beat league leaders Manchester United 

·         Liverpool have scored 17 times in the last 10 minutes of matches compared to just seven by the visitors 

·         Newcastle have only conceded four goals in the last 10 minutes of matches, only Manchester United have a better record

·         In the 10 matches where Newcastle have taken the lead they have only once gone on to lose 

 

Liverpool

·         Jamie Carragher has started all 34 PL matches for Liverpool this season along with goalkeeper Pepe Reina, Dirk Kuyt is next with 32 but has come on as a substitute in the other two matches 

·         Ryan Babel has sat on the bench 23 times this season for Liverpool in the PL, the most by an outfield player, and got on in 18 of them

·         Liverpool’s most substituted player is winger Albert Riera who has been replaced in 19 of his 23 starts 

·         Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard are joint top scorers for Liverpool with 13 PL goals each

·         Six of Gerrard’s 13 goals have been the last goal of the match, two more than Fernando Torres and Dirk Kuyt

·         Liverpool have three players in double figures this season the only club to do so, Manchester United have two and Berbatov is on nine 

·         Steven Gerrard is the top scorer at Anfield this season with eight, two more than Fernando Torres

·         Only three of Fernando Torres’s goals have come in the first half of matches 

·         Alvaro Arbeloa has picked up the most yellow cards for Liverpool with nine four more than any other player, only three have come at Anfield and only two in the first half of matches 

·         The most booked player at Anfield this season is Xavi Alonso with four, one more than Arbeloa 

·         There have been three 0-0 draws at Anfield this season against the most unlikely of sides, West ham, Fulham and Stoke

·         Liverpool are unbeaten at Anfield this season with 10 wins and seven defeats 

·         Liverpool have kept 10 clean sheets at Anfield this season

·         Only Wigan and Hull with two and Arsenal with four have scored more than one goal at

·         Anfield this season 

·         Liverpool have used more Spaniards’ this season than English players, six to five, with Brazil next with three 

 

Newcastle United

·         In matches against the Big 4 Newcastle have yet to win with two draws and five defeats, but the two draws were away at Chelsea and Manchester United 

·         Newcastle have no ever presents with Fabrizio Coloccini starting 32 of their 34 matches, three more than Nicky Butt

·         Michael Owen is the clubs leading scorer with eight goals, one more than Obafemi Martins, from 25 appearances including 20 starts 

·         In 17 matches on the road this season they have managed just two wins, at West Brom and Portsmouth, to go with six draws and nine defeats     

·         Twice been involved in 0-0 draws on the road this season at Chelsea and Middlesbrough

·         Compared to Liverpool’s five English players Newcastle have used 17 with no other country represented more than twice 

Nicky Butt and Steven Taylor are the most booked Newcastle players with six yellow cards each with five of Butt’s coming on the road