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Liverpool have won the last seven home games against Newcastle scoring 19 goals and conceding just two.

Liverpool are unbeaten in the last 17 Anfield league clashes with United, winning 15.

In the last 12 meetings home and away Liverpool have won nine and lost three. The Reds have scored in 11 of those games.

The Reds have found the net in 30 of the last 31 meetings at Anfield - and in all of the last 17.

Liverpool have scored three goals in each of the last five Anfield league meetings.

Liverpool have won 21 and lost 9 of the 36 Premier League meetings with the Geordies.

The Reds have scored 73 goals against Newcastle in the Premier League - more than they have achieved against any other team with 114 being scored in the meetings in total at an average of 3.2 per game.

Glen Johnson scored the first goal of his professional career against Newcastle in November 2003 in a 5-0 Chelsea home win. Stewart Downing scored his first ever league goal nine years ago today for Sunderland in a 3-1 win at Gillingham.

Liverpool could record back-to-back home league wins for the first time since September 2011 when they beat both Bolton and Wolves.

The last time the Reds came from behind to win a league game was against Newcastle at Anfield last December.

In six of the Reds' last eight wins over Newcastle when he has started, Steven Gerrard has scored. The skipper now has seven goals in total against today's opponents. Only Michael Owen with 13 has netted more against the Geordies than Gerrard for Liverpool in the Premier League.

Luis Suarez has scored six goals in his last eight league games. He has scored six of the Reds last 11 league goals. He didn't reach six league goals last season until February.

Steven Gerrard will reach the milestone of 600 games for the club, and in doing so will become only the 10^th player to achieve the feat for Liverpool and the seventh Englishman.

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The Reds are unbeaten in their last four league games, their best run since last December when they went five without defeat.

This is the seventh successive game that Liverpool have played within the city of Liverpool. The only time this sequence has happened was in January 1902. 

The only Newcastle player to score a goal at Anfield was Patrick Kluivert in a 3-1 defeat in December 2004. The only goal the Magpies have claimed since was last season's Daniel Agger own goal.

Alan Pardew has masterminded two wins over Liverpool in his four games as Newcastle boss. They are his only victories in nine meetings with the Reds with his three managerial clubs (Charlton and West  Ham being the others).

The Magpies are seeking their first away win of the season in the Premier League - having lost at Chelsea and drawn at Everton, Reading and Sunderland.

They have lost only once in the last 12 games in all competitions - both to Manchester United (2-1 away in League Cup and 3-0 at home in league).

Demba Ba has scored six goals in his last six games. He scored twice on his last visit to Merseyside in the 2-2 draw at Everton in September.

Of the five league goals Newcastle have scored away from home this season, Ba has netted four.

Scorers this season (league in brackets):

Liverpool: Suarez 9 (6), Gerrard 3 (2), Sahin 3 (1), Shelvey 3 (0), Downing 2 (0), Borini 1 (0), Coates 1 (0), Johnson 1 (0), Skrtel 1 (1), Sterling 1 (1), Wisdom 1 (0), own goals 3 (1).

Newcastle: Ba 7 (7), Cisse 3 (1), Ben Arfa 2 (2), Shola Ameobi 1 (0), Cabaye 1 (1), Obertan 1 (0), R. Taylor 1 (0), Vuckic 1 (0), own goals 1 (0).