Newcastle v LFC: Pre-match stat pack
Liverpool return to Barclays Premier League action at Newcastle today - here are all the pertinent pre-match facts and stats.
Two seasons ago Liverpool recorded their biggest ever win on Tyneside, triumphing 6-0 with Jordan Henderson (2), Daniel Sturridge (2) and Fabio Borini among the scorers.
Liverpool have won 23 and lost nine of the 40 Premier League meetings between the sides. At St. James' they have won seven, drawn five and lost eight. In the last 16 meetings home and away, the Reds have won 11 and lost three. They have scored in 15 of those games.
On the last eight occasions Liverpool have faced the Magpies in the north-east, they have scored 21 goals in total.
Liverpool have kept three clean sheets in their last 22 league visits - September 2001, November 2007 and April 2013.
There has not been a goalless draw in any of the last 58 league fixtures between the teams - a run dating back to February 1974 and a meeting at St. James'.
The Reds have scored 84 goals against Newcastle in the Premier League (more than against any other team) and the total of 129 is the joint-most involving Liverpool and any other Premier League team along with Tottenham.
And they have scored 36 league goals at St James' Park - more than they have netted at any visiting ground in the Premier League era.
Liverpool have scored in all but four of their 20 Premier League visits but have kept only two clean sheets in the last 11.
They have conceded seven goals in the last four visits but have failed to find the net in only one of the last eight meetings on Tyneside, scoring 21 goals in that time.
32 goals have been scored between the teams in those last eight meetings at St James'.
Only Michael Owen with 13, has netted more against the Geordies than Steven Gerrard for Liverpool in their league history. The Reds skipper has scored eight against the Magpies as did Gordon Hodgson and Roger Hunt.
The Reds are unbeaten in the last 4 league games (two wins, two draws) since losing at West Ham sixweeks ago.
Liverpool have scored in 18 successive top-flight away games - a club record. Their best ever sequence is 21 from 1955-56.
In the calendar year 2014 the Magpies have played 28, with seven wins, five draws and 16 defeats, taking 26 points out of a possible 84. They have recorded three wins out of the last 17 in the league. United have failed to score in 17 of the last 29 league games.