Newcastle United are a tough side to break down for any team, which was clearly visible from their impressive defensive record last season.
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Liverpool will be eager to maintain the winning feeling when they travel to St. James’ Park on Sunday to face Newcastle United. The Premier League contest will be one of the games to watch out for this weekend. Newcastle had an exceptional season last time out by securing Champions League football. In fact, the Magpies had pipped Jurgen Klopp’s side to finish fourth as the Reds missed out on Champions League.
Newcastle United are a tough side to break down for any team, which was clearly visible from their impressive defensive record last season. Hence, Jurgen Klopp is expecting nothing but a tough challenge when his Liverpool players travel to St. James’ Park for the Premier League contest. “It’s an away game at Newcastle. Newcastle are an incredibly strong team, qualified for the Champions League, fully deserved. Super development under Eddie Howe, I have to say, smart business,” he was quoted as saying by the club’s website during the press conference.
“I don’t want to miss anybody but probably the two standouts in this window: Tonali and Barnes. Really good business. Super-intense style, massive atmosphere there, so this is a tough one. Played a really good first game where Aston Villa were really good as well, to be honest. In the end, the result didn’t reflect probably the full game, but in the end how they used their counter-attacks and stuff like this was absolutely exceptional. The speed they have is really good. Newcastle since last year at least, they don’t concede a lot but score. So that’s a proper game, and we tried since Sunday night to make sure that we are ready for it. That’s it.”
Liverpool also received a major boost when Alexis Mac Allister’s red card against Bournemouth last weekend was overturned. The Reds had won that game 3-1 despite playing the last half hour with 10 men and now Klopp is happy to have the new signing available for the coming weekend. “Very good news. Massive [relief]. I was not sure after the game. When I saw the pictures back I was pretty sure that it’s not a red card but that doesn’t mean then immediately that our appeal will be successful. I think we could make the point really clear and the pictures were pretty clear as well. You don’t have that a lot of times that pretty much everybody agrees on [that] this is not a red card and should not be a red card. It’s a bit of a message early in the season as well,” he added.
Klopp believes it was not a harsh tackle by Mac Allister hence he is relieved to have him back. “Yes, harsh tackles and stuff like this should always be punished, I absolutely support that 100 per cent. But it was not a harsh tackle, it was just a touch in the situation. How I said, it was for us on the day already tough enough to play then in the circumstances – around about 40 minutes with 10 men. We were obviously not prepared for that but we scored the third goal, which was very helpful. And then we had to fight through it. It was a massive relief when I heard that it is overturned,” he explained.
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