Eddie Howe’s Newcastle United welcome a Liverpool facet managed by a well-known foe to St James Park within the Premier League on Sunday afternoon.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has received every of his final ten top-flight conferences with Howe. If the Reds are victorious as soon as once more this weekend, Howe will turn into the primary supervisor in Premier League historical past to ever lose 11 consecutive matches towards the identical opposition coach (per Opta).
Here’s the beginning XI Howe might deploy to keep away from changing into an undesirable a part of historical past.
GK: Nick Pope – The solely crimson card of Pope’s skilled profession got here towards Liverpool in February.
RB: Kieran Trippier – No participant was voted the Premier League’s official participant of the match extra usually than Trippier final season, successful 21 gongs to Erling Haaland’s 17.
CB: Fabian Schar – In what should really feel like a unique lifetime, Schar needed to juggle taking part in soccer with finding out economics and an everyday job. “I used to work all day in the bank,” he remembered, “and then go to training and then come home and start my homework at 10pm.”
CB: Sven Botman – “Sven’s adapted really quickly to the pace,” Jamaal Lascelles, Newcastle’s captain, mentioned final season. “It’s like he’s already played 300 times in the Premier League.” Sunday’s match will solely be look 39.
LB: Dan Burn – The former Newcastle academy reject labored for Asda utilizing his impossibly lengthy limbs to gather trolleys whereas taking part in for Blyth Spartans in the beginning of his profession.
CM: Sandro Tonali – Breakfast at Wetherspoons might terrify Newcastle’s crew of dieticians but it surely has definitely endeared Tonali to the Toon Army.
CM: Bruno Guimaraes – After questioning the “short, stupid memories” of Newcastle followers on social media throughout the week, Guimaraes might have one other stellar efficiency in order that spectators can neglect his sharp-tongued feedback.
CM: Sean Longstaff – If Joelinton will not be pressured again from a knock, Longstaff serves as a hard-working deputy to the Brazilian.
RW: Anthony Gordon – The quickest participant from the opening spherical of Premier League matches will definitely be trying to make use of that tempo to get in behind Liverpool’s excessive line.
ST: Alexander Isak – Made his Newcastle debut 12 months in the past towards Liverpool and marked it with a aim.
LW: Harvey Barnes – Namechecked by Klopp forward of Sunday’s match for example of the “really good business” that Newcastle have finished this summer time.
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