Liverpool XI vs Newcastle: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup and injury latest for Premier League today

Confidence wrong the campy is definite to beryllium high, particularly arsenic the Merseyside giants are apical of the array successful Europe and pb the mode by 9 points successful the Premier League rubric race.

In addition, Liverpool person been near-perfect connected the roadworthy truthful acold this season, winning each but 1 of their 8 distant games crossed each competitions, with the solitary gully coming against Arsenal successful October.

Like each clubs successful the top-flight of English football, the Reds person a hectic fixture docket to contend with arsenic they play 8 much times earlier the extremity of the year, meaning Slot volition request to marque afloat usage of his squad.

"They [Konate and Bradley] volition some beryllium retired for a fewer weeks,” Slot told reporters aft the City game. “I person said galore times before, it's ever hard to justice however galore weeks this precisely is due to the fact that you tin deliberation successful the opening it'll beryllium similar this and past the extremity signifier of an wounded process tin ever disagree a bit.

"They volition not beryllium successful the squad this week, for sure, some of them [Bradley and Konate] – and really I don't deliberation Kostas volition beryllium with america successful the upcoming week arsenic well.

"These players that we person disposable now, it is important for them present – adjacent much than mean – to enactment fit.”

Slot could invited backmost Alisson Becker, Diogo Jota and summertime signing Federico Chiesa soon successful immoderate capableness aft injury, though it's improbable that immoderate of the trio volition start, if available, arsenic Caoimhin Kelleher has been outstanding successful the Brazilian goalkeeper's absence.

"I deliberation I person been wide a fewer weeks agone astir what my presumption is astir our goalkeepers, but we are conscionable waiting for Alisson to beryllium wholly acceptable due to the fact that Caoimhin is doing excessively good to enactment Alisson connected extremity if he's lone 50%," Slot told reporters.

"That would not beryllium bully for Alisson and it would not beryllium bully for the team. He's getting there, it mightiness instrumentality a fewer much other days, but he's getting closer.

"Like I've ever said, the extremity signifier of a rehab is ever the play wherever you consciousness similar 'okay, is helium truly determination oregon does helium request other days?' But helium volition beryllium successful extremity earlier the extremity of December if things proceed similar they are now."

Trent Alexander-Arnold is apt to proceed astatine right-back aft getting 73 minutes nether his loop against City. Liverpool's midfield is an country which is often freshened up truthful Curtis Jones could gain a callback astatine the disbursal of Dominik Szoboszlai.

Darwin Nunez has blessed memories of St James' Park having netted connected some of his erstwhile visits to the stadium, including a brace successful this fixture past season, truthful helium whitethorn articulation the in-form Mohamed Salah and Cody Gakpo successful attack.

Predicted Liverpool XI: Kelleher; Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson; Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Salah, Jones, Gakpo; Nunez

Doubts: Alisson, Jota, Chiesa

Injured: Konate, Tsimikas, Bradley

Time and date: 7:30pm GMT contiguous connected Wednesday December 4, 2024

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