Follow Mail Sport’s live blog for the latest scores, team news and updates as Liverpool host Newcastle at Anfield in Premier League action. 

Jamie Carragher: Liverpool have something that Arsenal don’t

Defeats to West Ham and Fulham have temporarily derailed Arsenal’s title charge – or at least inserted some question marks into it – and Jamie Carragher thinks Liverpool’s experience will count when it comes to crunch time.

He told Sky Sports: I agree with Gary that Liverpool have got something Arsenal haven’t got, which is a manager who’s won the title before and I’ve got players in that squad, who are genuinely world class players.

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Jurgen Klopp focuses on his own team

Jurgen Klopp rejected discussion about league placements, asking: ‘who cares?’

The Liverpool boss said he was impressed with how his side has gelled but knows the season is far from over… especially with a particular playmaker awakening at the Etihad.

He told Sky Sports: ‘How quick we grew together as a group [impressed me]. That’s very important for us. We lost key players in the dressing room and how the boys dealt with that was pretty exceptional.

‘It’s all positive, no doubt, but actually nothing happened until last week. Arsenal were running away.

‘Kevin De Bruyne is warming up – the whole country is starting to shake!

‘It’s nothing to do with us We just want to be as good as possible!’

KIRKBY, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 29: (THE SUN OIT. THE SUN ON SUNDAY OUT) Jurgen Klopp manager of Liverpool during a training session at AXA Training Centre on December 29, 2023 in Kirkby, England. (Photo by John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Magpies in the house

Newcastle have sauntered into one of the Premier League’s most fearsome dens.

Will they pull off a shock tonight?

They can beat anyone on their day… remember a certain 4-1 drubbing of PSG in October.

Plus, Liverpool don’t have Chris Wood.

Jurgen Klopp believes in his men.. but they must navigate January without Mo Salah

Tonight will be Mo Salah’s last game before heading out for Africa Cup of Nations duty with Egypt. He is the Egyptian king, after all.

Liverpool have dealt with this in the past but it always throws up questions about their depth and title credentials. They need magic from their other forwards more than ever – even if Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz, and Cody Gakpo have been misfiring.

READ MORE on Klopp’s title tilt hopes below.

Follow our reporter Lewis Steele

Lewis Steele is one of our scribes at Anfield tonight, getting drenched just for your benefit!

Make sure to follow Lewis, our Merseyside football reporter, on X as we head into the transfer window. He brings regular updates from Jurgen Klopp’s camp… and their fierce rivals, Everton.

What happened last time out?

Liverpool came from behind thanks to a late double from Darwin Nunez when these sides met at St. James’ Park in August. Anthony Gordon had put the home team ahead.

It’s been a funny old season for the Uruguayan, who followed his early-season form with a 12-game drought, but he got back on the scoresheet against Burnley on Boxing Day.

Sven Botman: We’re going to make things right

Fighting talk from Newcastle centre-back Sven Botman.

With the Magpies under fire, he has vowed that they will return to form.

Does that start tonight? Newcastle haven’t won a Premier League game at Anfield since 1994! It’s a big ask.

Good evening!

Hello and welcome to Mail Sport’s live blog as Liverpool welcome Newcastle to Anfield in their first test of 2024.

Not many would have had Jurgen Klopp’s men top going into the New Year – especially not when Arsenal were top at Christmas – but the Reds are playing with lots of self-belief and are unbeaten in the league since September.

Newcastle? Well, they’ve lost four of their last five in the league and are in freefall. Eddie Howe hopes to claw his Magpies away from their current position of ninth.

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