Liverpool vs Newcastle United prediction, odds and betting tips
Liverpool and Newcastle United will go head-to-head in the first Premier League fixture of 2024.
Find the latest match odds for Liverpool vs Newcastle United. All odds are provided by our best-reviewed football betting sites. Odds are subject to change.
- Liverpool to win to nil - 2/1 with bet365
- Liverpool/Liverpool half-time/full-time - 5/4 with bet365
- Mohamed Salah to score any time - 10/11 with bet365
Liverpool are halfway through their Premier League season and a sustained title tilt looks like a distinct possibility.
The 2022/23 campaign was a disappointing one for the Reds. Having won two trophies and gone close to two more the previous year, Jurgen Klopp’s side struggled on multiple fronts last time out.
Despite a late rally between March and May, Liverpool could only manage a fifth-place finish. After 19 matches they were ninth and had amassed just 29 points, 13 fewer than their tally at the corresponding stage of the current campaign.
“Forty-two points, that’s really pleasing, to be honest,” Klopp said after his side’s 2-0 victory over Burnley on Boxing Day.
“That’s really cool because the first part of the season (is) done and it was absolutely all right what we did. Not perfect but it was all right.”
It was a revealing answer because it showed that while the long-serving Liverpool manager is content with his team’s efforts up to now, he still wants to see more in the second half of the season.
The Reds appear to be enjoying their status as the third-favourites to lift the trophy, behind Manchester City and Arsenal. That takes the pressure off to an extent, as does the fact that few predicted Liverpool would be right up there this season.
Klopp will be keen to start 2024 off on the right foot by overseeing a victory over Newcastle United on Monday night.
A 13th win of the season would keep Liverpool in the mix towards the summit of the standings going into what will be a quieter Premier League month in January.
Liverpool will be looking to maintain their unbeaten record at Anfield when Newcastle United come to town.
Anfield has been a fortress for most of Klopp’s tenure and Liverpool’s record in front of their own fans this season is especially impressive.
They slipped up in their last game on familiar territory, as Manchester United escaped with a 0-0 draw.
But Liverpool have taken 23 points from a possible 27 at Anfield, with Aston Villa the only team in possession of a superior points-per-home-game record at the time of writing. The Reds have also won all five of their Anfield encounters in other competitions.
The other side of the equation is Newcastle’s abysmal record on the road. Only Sheffield United have collected fewer points at opposition stadiums than the team that finished fourth last season.
Newcastle have won just once on their travels in 2023/24 - an 8-0 demolition of the aforementioned Sheffield United in September.
Moreover they have scored just one goal in their last four games on unfamiliar turf - and that was a consolation against Tottenham Hotspur in second-half stoppage time. Liverpool will like their chances of keeping a clean sheet in this one.
Newcastle United are not out of the race for Champions League qualifications just yet, especially if we assume that fifth place will be enough this season.
But it is fair to say they must improve in the second half of the campaign. The Magpies are currently on course to accumulate 58 points this term - in other words, nine fewer than fifth-placed Liverpool managed in 2022/23.
Newcastle have been hit hard by injuries this season. This squad, and Eddie Howe, have also had to balance domestic and European commitments for the first time.
Howe retains the backing of most Magpies fans for now, but the club’s Saudi owners are unlikely to be overly patient if results do not pick up in the first few weeks of 2024.
Unfortunately for Howe, it is hard to see his team avoiding defeat on Monday. Holding out until half-time will be the first priority, but that too will be difficult in front of a raucous Anfield crowd under the lights.
Newcastle have been behind at the interval in a majority of their Premier League away games this season. That bodes ill for this trip to Merseyside.
Due to the FA Cup and the mini-winter break, this will be Liverpool’s last Premier League game until January 21.
By then Mohamed Salah will be in Ivory Coast for the Africa Cup of Nations, where Egypt will be among the leading contenders to go all the way.
Liverpool will be hoping for an early Egyptian exit, but even if that happens Salah will not be back in England until late January.
The forward will be looking to sign off in the Premier League on a high in this meeting with Newcastle, against whom he has had a direct goal involvement in five of his last six appearances.
Salah did not find the back of the net against Burnley on Boxing Day, but he can return to scoring ways here.
- Location: Anfield, Liverpool, England.
- Date and time: Monday 1 January 2024, 8pm.
- How to watch: Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League.
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