Source: Liverpool_Echo
Newcastle v Liverpool FC match preview
To be played at St James' Park, Saturday December 11 at 5.30pm[LNB] Newcastle's last five games[LNB]Dec 5: Premier League - West Brom 3 Newcastle 1[LNB]Nov 28: Premier League - Newcastle 1 Chelsea 1[LNB] Nov 20: Premier League - Bolton 5 Newcastle 1[LNB]Nov 13: Premier League - Newcastle 0 Fulham 0[LNB]Nov 10: Premier League - Newcastle 1 Blackburn 2[LNB]Liverpool's last five games[LNB]Dec 6: Premier League - Liverpool 3 Aston Villa 0 [LNB]Dec 2: Europa League - Steaua Bucharest 1 Liverpool 1[LNB]Nov 28: Premier League - Tottenham 2 Liverpool 1[LNB]Nov 20: Premier League - Liverpool 3 West Ham 0[LNB]Nov 13: Premier League - Stoke 2 Liverpool 0[LNB]Past matches[LNB]Newcastle v Liverpool - matches at St James' Park[LNB]Played: 79 Won: 23 Drawn: 23 Lost: 33 Goals scored: 93 Goals against: 114[LNB]Selected matches[LNB]December 2008: Newcastle 1 Liverpool 5 - click here for match report[LNB] Liverpool were sitting pretty at the top of the Premier League table after giving Newcastle a festive hammering two years ago. While a Gerrard brace as well as goals from Babel, Hyypia and Alonso secured the away day rout, the game was also notable for being one of Lucas Leiva's best performances for the Reds.[LNB]August 1998: Newcastle 1 Liverpool 4[LNB] Michael Owen struck a 15-minute first-half hat-trick to give new Magpies boss Ruud Gullit a lot of thinking to do about exactly how his brand of "sexy football" would transfer to St James' Park. Patrick Berger fired in a fourth just before the break to compound the home fans' misery.[LNB]Quick Quiz (Answers on next page)[LNB]1) Another Liverpool player rifled in a hat-trick in a 4-1 win at St James' Park, this time in September 1987 - who was it?[LNB]2) Which former Liverpool and Newcastle player left the St James' Park pitch in a helicopter after his final game for the Magpies?[LNB]3) The Reds put three past Newcastle in the 1974 FA Cup Final, but which Liverpool player had a great goal wrongly disallowed that day?[LNB]4) Which Newcastle and Liverpool double agent scored the last goal in the Reds' 5-0 demolition of Nottingham Forest in 1988?[LNB]5) Liverpool famously defeated Newcastle 4-3 at Anfield twice in the 1990s, but which former Red scored two goals on each occasion?[LNB]See next page for video of Liverpool sticking five past Newcastle >>>>>>
