Liverpool predicted lineup vs Newcastle - Premier League

Jurgen Klopp steered Liverpool to their first victory of the season against Bournemouth last weekend
Jurgen Klopp steered Liverpool to their first victory of the season against Bournemouth last weekend / Michael Regan/GettyImages
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Liverpool welcome Newcastle United to Anfield in the Premier League on Wednesday evening.

The Reds recorded a Premier League record-equalling 9-0 victory against Bournemouth last weekend. While it earned Liverpool their first win of the season, a thumping of that magnitude doesn't always breed success; only two of the last nine teams to score nine-plus goals have won their following top-flight match (D4 L3).

Here's the XI Jurgen Klopp may deploy to keep that winning feeling alive.


Liverpool predicted lineup vs Newcastle (4-3-3)

1. Liverpool XI

GK: Alisson - Had Muriel - Alisson's brother - plumped for a different hobby, football may have been robbed of one of the world's best goalkeepers who was inspired to don a pair of gloves by his elder sibling.

RB: Trent Alexander-Arnold - Liverpool's buccaneering playmaker has gone nine Premier League appearances without an assist, his longest drought since March 2021.

CB: Joe Gomez - The tee-total centre-back celebrated Liverpool's famous Champions League victory against Barcelona in 2019 with a game of Monopoly which dragged into the early hours. Wild.

CB: Virgil van Dijk - In the Premier League, Van Dijk has a better conversion rate with his head (13%) than his (supposedly) stronger right foot (2%).

LB: Andy Robertson - Brian 'Pop' Robertson, Andy's father, had to wear a metal back brace when he had a kickabout after sustaining a spinal injury in his youth. His neighbour Jim Duffy told the BBC: "Andy has got his determination, that never-give-up attitude, from his dad."

CM: Harvey Elliott - Buoyed by the first top-flight goal of his career last weekend, the 19-year-old could find the net in consecutive games for the first time since December 2020 during his impressive loan spell with Blackburn Rovers.

CM: Fabinho - The languid Brazilian scored his first Premier League goal in a 4-0 victory at home to Newcastle on Boxing Day 2018.

CM: Jordan Henderson - Liverpool's skipper is one of a league-high seven players over the age of 30 to have appeared for the club this season.

RW: Mohamed Salah - Fantasy Football fans disillusioned by his lack of involvement in last weekend's rout - more than 450,000 users have transferred the Egyptian out in protest - may want to hold off any hasty sales given Salah's record of scoring in his last five matches against Newcastle at Anfield.

ST: Roberto Firmino - Liverpool's number nine became just the 19th different player in Liverpool's 130-year history to rack up 100 goals for the club against Bournemouth last weekend.

LW: Luis Diaz - With six goals in his opening ten Premier League matches at Anfield, only Fernando Torres can better Diaz's scoring start to life in Liverpool (per BBC).

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