Newcastle vs Liverpool LIVE! Premier League match stream, latest team news, lineups, TV, prediction today

Newcastle vs Liverpool LIVE! Premier League match stream, latest team news, lineups, TV, prediction today

Reds hoping to maintain or extend their commanding lead at the summit in a fixture they have dominated

Newcastle vs Liverpool LIVE!

The Premier League leaders are out to build on their impressive lead at the top as they travel to St James’ Park tonight. Dominant Liverpool head to Tyneside on the back of seven wins in a row across all competitions that includes back-to-back 2-0 successes over Real Madrid and Manchester City, sitting pretty at the summit both domestically and in the Champions League after an astonishing start to life under Arne Slot.

Their advantage over closest challengers Arsenal and Chelsea is currently nine points and could improve this evening if they ensure another positive result and their rivals slip up. Newcastle, by contrast, have won only two of their last nine in the league and sit down in 11th place after following a shock home defeat by West Ham by conceding a last-gasp equaliser at Crystal Palace amid more pressure facing Eddie Howe.

The omens are very bad indeed for the hosts tonight, with Newcastle, who could be without Alexander Isak through injury, having lost all of their last six games against Liverpool - for whom St James’ Park is a very happy hunting ground - and failed to beat them since 2015. Follow Newcastle vs Liverpool live below!

Newcastle vs Liverpool latest news

Kick-off: 7.30pm GMT | St James' Park

Newcastle team news: Late call on Isak

Liverpool team news: Chiesa close to return

Score prediction

Liverpool team

Starting XI: Kelleher, Gomez, Van Dijk, Quansah, Robertson, Mac Allister, Gravenberch, Jones, Salah, Gakpo, Nunez

Subs: Jaros, Endo, Diaz, Szoboszlai, Elliott, Alexander-Arnold, Morton, Nyoni, Nallo

Newcastle team

Starting XI: Pope, Livramento, Schar, Burn, Hall, Bruno Guimaraes, Tonali, Joelinton, Murphy, Gordon, Isak

Subs: Dubravka, Wilson, Barnes, Targett, Osula, Almiron, Kelly, Willock, Longstaff

Lineups on the way

A cold December night in store on Tyneside.

Official team news is now imminent...

Liverpool offer Van Dijk new contract with Salah to follow

There does at last appear to be some movement with regards to the one major storyline that could yet distract Liverpool from their trophy aims this season - the well-publicised contract situations of Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold.

All three key players will see their current deals at Anfield expire next summer, with no progress yet made in terms of extensions with the clock ticking down.

But David Ornstein of The Athletic reported earlier on today that Liverpool have at last made an opening contract offer to Van Dijk, with one expected for Salah soon and talks also continuing over Alexander-Arnold.

Eddie Howe: I'd rather be out of a job than change style

Eddie Howe is coming under yet more pressure at Newcastle after a troubling run of just two wins from their last nine Premier League matches that has seen them drop out of the top half altogether.

Criticism of his style of play has grown louder among the frustrated Toon fanbase over recent weeks, not improved by conceding a last-gasp equaliser at Selhurst Park over the weekend.

However, Howe defiantly said yesterday that he would rather be out of a job than sacrifice his attacking footballing principles.

“For me, attacking is fundamental. It is your aim of the game. You are giving your players a purpose,” he said.

“We will always look to attack. I make no apologies for that. I would rather not be in a job than not fulfil that promise to the supporters. We want to entertain ultimately.

"We want to play attacking football that ultimately the fans want to see.

“I know we are not delivering that at the moment and that is a frustration, we are not going to drop that we just have to become better than that."

Arne Slot: Newcastle trip 'harder' than Real Madrid and Man City tests

This is a run to test Liverpool’s trophy mettle, but so far they have passed with flying colours.

Six of their next nine games are away from home, including Saturday’s last-ever Merseyside derby at Goodison Park, with such a relentless period of games between now and the New Year.

Does Arne Slot agree that his confident and dominant side are title favourites?

“I've said many times already, we don't look at it at this moment like this,” the Reds boss said yesterday.

“We know we have a difficult week coming up again.

“We thought [Real] Madrid and [Manchester] City were very difficult teams to face – which they actually were as well – I think it's even harder to go [for] an away game to Newcastle.

“We're not even halfway through the season yet but it's a good position to be in, that's definitely true.”

Alexander Isak arrives at St James' Park

Potentially huge team news for Newcastle - Alexander Isak has been pictured and filmed arriving at St James’ Park tonight as normal.

Hopefully for the Magpies a sign that the Swedish striker is fit enough to play after that hip injury that forced him off early at Crystal Palace and a lack of subsequent training involvement.

But will he be able to start?

Liverpool out to continue recent dominance over Newcastle

While it’s fair to say that Newcastle have raised their game against high-level opponents during the course of a disappointing season so far, their recent record against Liverpool is truly wretched.

The Reds have absolutely dominated this fixture in recent years, winning six on the spin and five of the last six at St James’ Park.

Newcastle have not beaten Liverpool in any of the last 15 league meetings, a run that stretches back to December 2015.

Last season on Tyneside, Darwin Nunez came off the bench to score two dramatic late goals for Liverpool in a 2-1 win in a game in which Newcastle had taken the lead through Anthony Gordon and Virgil van Dijk was sent off.

The two sides also met at Anfield on New Year’s Day, with Mohamed Salah notching a brace in a commanding 4-2 victory.

Early Liverpool team news: Chiesa close to return

Liverpool look set to have lone summer signing Federico Chiesa back soon after an injury-plagued start to his Anfield career.

Alisson Becker and Diogo Jota are also expected to return shortly, though tonight will surely come too soon for their No1 as Caoimhin Kelleher continues to deputise in goal.

Kostas Tsimikas is still out, while Ibrahima Konate and Conor Bradley are set for a few weeks on the sidelines.

Early Newcastle team news: Isak faces fitness test

The big team news question for Newcastle tonight surrounds the fitness of Alexander Isak, their star striker who was forced off early with a hip injury during Saturday’s dramatic 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace.

The Swedish international is a huge doubt and faces a late fitness test, with manager Eddie Howe telling reporters on Tuesday: “We haven’t seen him in training yet.

“We don’t think it’s a long-term injury. We’ll see. It will be about pain management.”

The Magpies remain without defenders Jamaal Lascelles, Emil Krafth and Sven Botman.

How to watch Newcastle vs Liverpool

TV channel: Tonight’s game will be broadcast live in the UK on Amazon Prime Video. Coverage starts at 6.30pm GMT.

Live stream: The Amazon Prime Video website and app will offer subscribers a live stream service online.