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LIVERPOOL FC: LFC V NEWCASTLE: STAT ATTACK

Here are all the important pre-match stats and facts ahead of Saturday's clash with Newcastle at Anfield.

/noticias.info/ # Earlier this season Liverpool won 3-0 at St James' Park. Steven Gerrard, Dirk Kuyt and Ryan Babel scored the goals.

# Ryan Babel scored his first Liverpool goal away from Anfield in that meeting between the sides.

# Dirk Kuyt scored his 150th career goal and his first in a Liverpool shirt against Newcastle in the fixture at Anfield last season.

# Liverpool have won 16 and lost seven of the 29 Premier League meetings between the sides.

# There has been only one goalless draw at Anfield between the sides in the last 78 years. That came in February 1970. In all meetings home and away there hasn't been one since February 1974-a run of 47 games.

# Liverpool have won 11 and drawn two of the last 13 Anfield league meetings.

# Liverpool have scored 31 goals in the last 12 League meetings with Newcastle at Anfield.

# Should the Reds score twice today they will record their 250th league goal against Newcastle.

# Liverpool's biggest League win here over Newcastle came in August 1967-the Reds winning 6-0. Their heaviest defeat by Newcastle on this ground was by a 5-1 margin in December 1907.

# Should the Reds win it will be their 300th in the Premier League in their 611th game.

# Fernando Torres has scored 12 goals in his last 11 league starts and 16 in his last 18 starts in all competitions.

# The Spanish striker is now two goals short of becoming the first Liverpool player since Robbie Fowler in 1995-96 to score 20 league goals in a season.

# Following his three goals in midweek he is aiming to become the first Liverpool player since Ian Rush in November 1982 to score a hat-trick in successive games.

# No Liverpool player has ever scored a hat-trick in three consecutive home games, or indeed in league games at Anfield.

# Torres became the first player to score three hat-tricks in a season for the Reds since Michael Owen in 2002-03. The last man to achieve more than three was Roger Hunt in 1961-62 who scored five.

# Ian Rush is the last Liverpool player to score three hat-tricks in a league season, doing so in 1983-84. It is a feat Torres is one short of achieving.

# The Reds have now scored six hat-tricks this season, for the first time since 1986-87. If they achieve one more it will be their best since 1946-47 when they notched seven.

# Liverpool, along with Arsenal, have scored more goals than any other Premier League team in all competitions this season. Both have scored 93 with Liverpool's coming in 44 games, two fewer than the Gunners.

# Liverpool are looking to win a fourth successive league game for the first time in 13 months.

# The next goal scored against Liverpool will be the 600th conceded by the Reds in the Premiership.

# The last Liverpool player to score a hat-trick in this fixture was Michael Owen in a 3-0 win here in May 2001. Michael had previously achieved the feat for the Reds at St James'.

# Michael scored 13 goals in just nine league games against Newcastle while playing for the Reds.

# A victory will give Liverpool their fifth Premier League ‘double' over the Magpies and their 19th in total.

# This season for the first time in the club's history Liverpool have scored hat-tricks in all three domestic competitions and Europe in the same campaign.

# There have been 89 goals scored in 29 Premier League games between Liverpool and Newcastle-an average of just over three per game.

# Newcastle last won the title in 1926-27 and their best in the Premiership was 2nd in 1995-96 and 1996-97.

# They have won twice in the league away from home this season. They beat Bolton 3-1 on the opening day and won 1-0 at Fulham in December thanks to a last minute Joey Barton penalty.

# That statistic means only one away win in the last 12 away league games.

# The next draw will be their 150th in the Premier League.

# The last Newcastle player to score a hat-trick against Liverpool was Andy Cole in November 1993.

# The Magpies' only Premier League win at Anfield came on 16th April 1994 courtesy of a 2-0 win thanks to goals from Rob Lee and Andy Cole. Newcastle finished third that season-five places higher than Liverpool.

# Habib Beye played against Liverpool for Marseille in the UEFA Cup in 2004.

# Kevin Keegan is only the second Newcastle manager to take control of the club on more than one occasion. The other was Stan Seymour who had three spells in charge between 1939-58.

# Under Sam Allardyce, United averaged 1.24 points per game. Since Keegan took over that has dropped to 0.33.

# Mark Viduka has scored six times against the Reds in the league including four in one game while with Leeds in November 2000.
Ten of the 53 league goals conceded by Newcastle this season have been scored in the last five minutes of games.

# The Magpies have failed to pick up a point in any of the last five games away from home and have conceded 13 in the last three.

# Newcastle have won only twice in the last 36 League visits to Anfield.

# Home and away they have not won in 11 in the Premier League and have picked up three points and kept just one clean sheet in that time.

# They have scored three league goals this calendar year with Michael Owen scoring two of them.

# James Milner is the only player to feature in every Newcastle league game this season.

# This will be the 250th Premier League appearance of Michael Owen's career.

# Last season Newcastle finished 13th after winning just one of the last 11 games. Being just three points above the relegation zone they cannot afford a repeat this time.

# Newcastle's only win in the last 14 games came with a 4-1 home win over Stoke in the F.A. Cup back in January-on the day it was announced that Kevin Keegan was returning to Tyneside.

# Only Derby (57) and Reading (55) have conceded more league goals this season than Newcastle (53).

# The Magpies have suffered heavy defeats to Portsmouth (4-1), Manchester United (6-0 and 5-1) and Aston Villa (4-1). notas_de_prensa_archivo