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Who: Newcastle United vs Liverpool
What: English Premier League
Where: St James’ Park, Newcastle, United Kingdom
When: Monday, August 25 astatine 8pm (19:00 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll person each the updates connected Al Jazeera Sport from 5pm (16:00 GMT) successful beforehand of our unrecorded substance commentary stream.
Liverpool volition sojourn Newcastle United connected Monday nighttime amid a juicy transportation saga involving the Reds trying to pry striker Alexander Isak distant from the Magpies.
The Swedish striker has been grooming unsocial successful beforehand of the caller play with an impasse reached betwixt the nine and player.
Al Jazeera Sport takes a look astatine the conflict that has arsenic overmuch absorption connected off-field matters arsenic those connected it.
What is the latest connected the Isak situation?
Newcastle truthful acold person rebuffed the efforts of Liverpool. Isak, however, connected societal media has made wide his tendency to marque the move to the defending Premier League champions and his dissatisfaction with the Magpies for obstructing it.
As a result, helium has been grooming distant from the remainder of the Newcastle squad arsenic they hole for a rematch of their 2025 Carabao Cup triumph, which marked the Magpies archetypal large trophy triumph successful 70 years.
Manager Eddie Howe confirmed Isak volition not play Monday. But helium is hopeful the Swedish striker who scored 23 league goals past play can beryllium reintegrated into the squad, saying determination is nary idiosyncratic animosity betwixt them.
Newcastle United’s Sandro Tonali and Alexander Isak locomotion onto the transportation earlier the Everton lucifer to extremity past play – the past crippled Isak played for the nine [Lee Smith/Reuters]He besides admits the ordeal has enactment the nine successful a hard position.
“It is simply a lose/lose concern to a grade for america due to the fact that I don’t deliberation we tin travel retired of this winning successful immoderate situation,” Howe told reporters Friday. “We emotion Alex successful the consciousness of what he’s done for the shot nine since he’s been here, what he’s contributed, what he’s given, however nonrecreational he’s been.”
What was Newcastle’s effect successful their Premier League opener?
Without Isak, the Magpies were forced to settee for a 0-0 gully astatine Aston Villa to unfastened their run contempt creating the bulk of the chances.
How did Liverpool just successful their Premier League opener?
Liverpool looked fantabulous astatine times and susceptible astatine others successful their season-opening 4-2 location triumph against Bournemouth, 1 that came contempt giving backmost a two-goal pb via Antoine Semenyo’s second-half brace.
Substitute Federico Chiesa scored the eventual victor successful the 88th minute, and Mo Salah added his archetypal of the twelvemonth successful second-half stoppage time. Summer signing Hugo Ekikite scored his archetypal Liverpool extremity and added his archetypal assistance to assistance the Reds to a 2-0 lead.
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring their 4th extremity against Bournemouth [Peter Powell/Reuters]What is Liverpool’s instrumentality connected the Newcastle trip?
Liverpool manager Arne Slot is mindful of the hostile ambiance his broadside would beryllium apt to look adjacent without the Isak episode.
“Nothing to bash with thing that’s successful the media a lot, but I deliberation if you spell to Newcastle, you cognize what to expect,” Slot said. “We’ve played them 3 times past season, and doubly their strength levels were supra ours. In the distant game, particularly the archetypal 60 minutes, they were so, so, truthful intense. They were afloat deserved [of a point].”
What happened the past clip Newcastle met Liverpool?
Newcastle were 2-1 winners against Liverpool successful the Carabao Cup last successful March.
The teams shared a 3-3 gully astatine St James’ Park past season, but the Reds did triumph the league gathering astatine Anfield 2-0.
Head-to-head
This is the 189th gathering betwixt the clubs, with Liverpool winning connected 93 occasions compared to Newcastle’s 50 victories.
Newcastle person not beaten Liverpool successful the league since a 2-0 location triumph successful December 2015.
The Reds person won 12 of 17 fixtures betwixt the clubs since then.
Newcastle squad news
Isak is the big-name omission from the Newcastle match-day squad erstwhile again.
Should Joe Willock instrumentality from a calf problem, however, past Newcastle volition different person a afloat acceptable squad to take from.
Jacob Ramsey has signed from Aston Villa and could beryllium successful enactment for a debut for the Magpies.
Liverpool squad news
One of Liverpool’s caller signings, Jeremie Frimpong, volition beryllium retired aft the planetary interruption with a hamstring injury.
Conor Bradley has returned to afloat grooming from injury, but Joe Gomez is inactive beryllium assessed pursuing a sound but whitethorn not yet beryllium afloat acceptable to start.
Predicted Newcastle starting lineup
Pope; Trippier, Schar, Burn, Livramento; Guimaraes, Tonali, Joelinton; Elanga, Gordon, Barnes
Predicted Liverpool starting lineup
Alisson; Szoboszlai, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Salah, Wirtz, Gakpo; Ekitike
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