Newcastle United vs Liverpool - prediction, team news, lineups

New bluish eras commence astatine 4.30pm connected Sunday afternoon, erstwhile Matthias Jaissle's Newcastle United and Andoni Iraola's Liverpool footwear disconnected their 2026-27 Premier League campaigns.

The Magpies concluded pre-season with a measly three-game winless run, portion the Reds swapped chaos for power successful a 2-0 stroll against Como.

Match preview

Another summertime of off-field upheaval - and not the bully benignant - has befallen Newcastle United, who nary longer employment immoderate of Eddie Howe, Sandro Tonali, Bruno Guimaraes oregon Anthony Gordon aft a troubled 2025-26 campaign.

The Magpies' mega-million takeover successful 2021 sparked fears of a caller English shot superpower being born, but specified a phantasy has remained conscionable a phantasy for the St James' Park faithful, who witnessed their broadside endure their joint-worst decorativeness of the decennary past term.

Ranking arsenic debased arsenic 12th successful the Premier League for the archetypal clip since the 2020-21 season, the erstwhile EFL Cup winners and Champions League participants person turned to 38-year-old Jaissle, already a six-time trophy victor from his stints with Red Bull Salzburg and Al-Ahli.

Newcastle had suffered a chastening 4-1 affable nonaccomplishment to Bristol City soon earlier Jaissle's arrival, and the German's broadside subsequently edged retired Valencia, fell to Everton and Bayer Leverkusen and drew with Strasbourg successful their summertime programme, scoring and conceding successful each 4 contests.

The second statistic is par for the course, arsenic Newcastle person besides netted and shipped successful 7 consecutive Premier League location games, meaning they could erstwhile again lucifer their nine grounds of scoring and conceding successful 8 consecutive matches astatine St James' Park successful the competition.

Historical omens favour the men successful achromatic and white, though, arsenic they person avoided decision successful each of their past 4 matchday 1 clashes, portion Jaissle has won his archetypal crippled successful complaint astatine each of his erstwhile 3 clubs.

Iraola cannot boast the aforesaid inaugural crippled grounds arsenic his other fig this weekend, having lone earned 1 triumph from his erstwhile 4 archetypal matches arsenic Bournemouth, Rayo Vallecano, Mirandes and AEK Larnaca manager, albeit portion avoiding decision successful each of them.

Nevertheless, the Spaniard won implicit the Anfield assemblage adjacent earlier helium was sworn successful arsenic Arne Slot's successor, amid the anticipation that helium would instrumentality the Reds to their high-octane ways that defined the aureate Jurgen Klopp era.

Iraola-ball was evident successful pre-season, wherever Liverpool's six matches produced 20 goals - an mean of implicit 3 per crippled - and ended with invited back-to-back cleanable sheets against Como pursuing the concession of 9 strikes successful their opening 4 matches.

Sunday's visitors person besides enjoyed a 13-game unbeaten tally successful Premier League matchday 1 fixtures, though not adjacent that coagulated streak matches up to Iraola's existent series without defeat, having overseen a magnificent 18-match unbeaten Premier League tally with Bournemouth en way to the Europa League.

Furthermore, the Liverpool manager has ne'er mislaid to Newcastle successful the apical formation - masterminding 3 wins and 3 draws - and it is astir a twelvemonth to the time since Slot's Reds pulled disconnected an unforgettable 3-2 win successful this nonstop fixture successful 2025-26.

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Team News

Sales and strains person ravaged Newcastle's midfield this summer, arsenic Jaissle has confirmed that Joelinton volition beryllium missing for a mates of weeks with a groin injury, truthful 1 of Sean Steur oregon Aladji Bamba - 2 of the hosts' caller arrivals this summertime - should marque their afloat debuts.

Tino Livramento is besides inactive recovering from the calf occupation that forced him to retreat from the England World Cup squad, opening the doorway for different caller look successful Amar Dedic to enactment up from the off.

Lukas Hornicek is besides primed for his Premier League baptism successful betwixt the posts, portion Yoane Wissa is expected to inhabit the fig 10 slot, down either Nick Woltemade oregon Yoane Wissa.

As for Liverpool's wounded list, semipermanent absentees Conor Bradley (knee), Giovanni Leoni (knee) and Hugo Ekitike (Achilles) are inactive successful the betterment phase, arsenic is Joe Gomez, who picked up a caller muscular occupation successful pre-season.

Curtis Jones was besides struck down by an evident hep problem, 1 that raised fans' eyebrows, and with bully crushed fixed that the academy postgraduate is present connected the verge of sealing a £30m transportation to Inter Milan.

With Jones departing and World Cup finalist Alexis Mac Allister lone conscionable returning, Ryan Gravenberch and Dominik Szoboszlai are expected to signifier the treble pivot, portion Rio Ngumoha fills Mohamed Salah's shoes for the clip being.

Newcastle United imaginable starting lineup:

Hornicek; Dedic, Thiaw, Botman, Hall; Ramsey, Steur; Elanga, Wissa, Barnes; Osula

Liverpool imaginable starting lineup:

Alisson; Frimpong, Jacquet, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Szoboszlai; Ngumoha, Wirtz, Gakpo; Isak

We say: Newcastle United 1-3 Liverpool

Scoring and conceding comes people to Newcastle, who ought to acquisition astatine slightest a sliver of joyousness successful beforehand of extremity against a defensively-depleted Liverpool outfit.

However, the Iraola onslaught was firing connected each cylinders for overmuch of pre-season - successful which the Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak concern showed caller signs of beingness - truthful the Reds person our ballot to people 3 and triumph astatine St James' Park erstwhile again.

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