📊EOTK Stats Pack: Liverpool v Newcastle - Form guide, a deeper dive into Diogo Jota's 50 goals and MORE

We analyse some of the key stats and info ahead of Liverpool's first match of 2024, a year with a vast amount of promise for the Reds!

Happy New Year, everyone!

2024 is upon us, and we’re now officially beyond the midway point of the Premier League season, one which is shaping up nicely from a Liverpool perspective.

The Reds are well and truly in the title picture as they kick off the calendar year with a home clash against a Newcastle United team who endured a sobering finish to 2023, as we’ll see in more detail below.

The outlook is very different for Jurgen Klopp’s side now compared to 12 months ago, when a wholly deserved 3-1 defeat at Brentford left them sixth in the table and 15 points off the summit.

Champions League qualification looked a tall order at that point, whereas now Liverpool have legitimate reason to be classed as title contenders, even if Manchester City usually hit the turbo at this time of year to dash the hopes of anyone hoping for a bit of novelty in terms of the engravement on the Premier League trophy.

Ahead of the Anfield showdown against Newcastle, let’s take a look at the form guide for both teams, as well as their head-to-head Premier League record, and look in depth at Diogo Jota’s half-century of goals for the Reds.