Opta Stats: Newcastle v Liverpool

 

Liverpool will be without their top scorer Luis Suarez against a Newcastle side six points from safety. Opta have all the stats.

 

Liverpool have won nine and drawn one of the last 13 Barclays Premier League games against Newcastle in Premier League history. The Reds are 2.48 to win.

 

Liverpool have drawn their last three Premier League games; they have not drawn four in a row since December 2008. The draw can be backed at 3.6.

 

Newcastle had won four successive home games before a defeat to rivals Sunderland in their last game at St James Park (0-3). A win for the Magpies is available at 3.05.

 

Liverpool have only kept two clean sheets in 18 Premier League trips to Tyneside. Newcastle are 1.34 to keep a clean sheet.

 

Only Newcastle v Tottenham (38, at both venues) has seen more Premier League meetings without a single 0-0 draw than Newcastle v Liverpool (37). The 0-0 draw is 13.0 to back, 14.0 to lay.

 

Each of Liverpool's last seven league goals has come in the 45th minute or later. The Reds are 1.9 to score the last goal.

 

Newcastle have conceded more goals than ever before at this stage of a Premier League campaign (60). The Magpies are 22.0 to be relegated.

 

The Magpies have only scored one goal from a corner all season; a league-low. Liverpool are 3.6 to keep a clean sheet.

 

Newcastle have not lost a Premier League game having been two goals or more up since December 1998, when they lost 2-4 to Liverpool. The Magpies have played 508 Premier League games since that defeat. Liverpool are 9.5 to come from behind.

 

Only against Aston Villa (11) has Steven Gerrard scored more Premier League goals than he has against Newcastle (seven). Gerrard is 3.65 to score a goal.

 

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