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Liverpool put together to host hostile forces at Anfield tonight within the guise of Newcastle United, who can be heading to Merseyside hoping to avenge a 2-1 defeat handed to them by the Reds earlier within the season.

With the Merseyside giants sitting high of the premier league, the Magpies will certain maintain some grudges over the three factors stolen from them earlier in August after taking the preliminary result in a 10-man Liverpool crew on the day.

Nonetheless, with subject of revenge apart, each groups head into this fixture dealing with contrasting fortunes on the shape desk, with Liverpool at present the facet to be envious of in comparison with a Newcastle United whose wonderful type now appear a pale shadow of its 2022/23 type that was by far a distinction to the Reds’.

The Magpies in an extended throw from their 2022/23 season type, discover themselves sitting ninth within the premier league desk, 1 level over tenth place Chelsea and 11 factors off the highest 4 and the European spots, which mockingly appears extra harking back to the place their opponent had been final season.

With out a win of their final 3 video games, Newcastle United are in supposedly their worst type for the reason that emergence of Eddie Howe as supervisor. They sit on 8 defeats, 3 greater than they’d within the 2022/23 season, and 1 lower than Liverpool had in similar season total, with 19 extra video games nonetheless to play for.

The Reds then again, for the primary half of the season, have constructed a powerful type that has resulted only one defeat this season; the 2-1 defeat away to Tottenham Hotspur, to depart them at present on high on 2 factors.