• Sunday, December 6, 2015

    Sports: And it just can't stop getting bether for Liverpool fc.


    Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has warned his side against complacency when they travel to 
    Newcastle United on Sunday afternoon.
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    Klopp's men make the trip to the north-east off the back of a convincing 6-1 win over Southampton in the League Cup with Daniel Sturridge scoring twice as Liverpool made it four straight wins in all competitions.
    With confidence high on Merseyside amid steady progression in Klopp's short time at the club, the visitors will be confident of victory against a Newcastle side struggling in 19th place.
    Liverpool have scored 86 goals against Newcastle in the Barclays Premier League, more than any other team, and, even with the likely absence of Philippe Coutinho (hamstring), they will hope to have more than enough to ask questions of the Magpies.
    Klopp - who has come out on top against McClaren twice in the dugout when the pair coached Borussia Dortmund and Wolfsburg respectively - maintains Liverpool cannot take anything for granted.
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    "I had seven years at Dortmund, seven years at Mainz. So in my opinion [stability is] very important," said the German, who has Emre Can suspended this weekend.
    "But it can work in different ways. I don't know about the history of Newcastle but I know Steve McClaren and his quality and his experience. We have to be aware.
    "I'm still a new manager here. I can't tell you something about Newcastle. I know a bit of their problems in the last year. They thought they needed to buy players and so on, Newcastle haven't played in Europe for a while, so information in Germany was not easy to get.
    "If I need to know more of Newcastle, I would take information. We have to play football against them."
    McClaren acknowledged that confidence was low in the dressing room following last weekend's 5-1 loss at Crystal Palace.
    As Newcastle return to St James' Park - where they have won just once in their last seven league matches - defender Mike Williamson will be absent after tweaking a hamstring in training shortly after being recalled from a loan at Wolves.
    "[Klopp] is a quality coach, I know him well from Dortmund in Germany," McClaren explained this week.
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    "I have played against [Dortmund] a couple of times. I can see Dortmund in his Liverpool team. But we have to claw our way back and come through it.
    "We have to see some light and then keep going. We have good players and they need to come through this.
    "The way they are playing there is effort there, it is just a lack of confidence."
    Newcastle United (from): Darlow, Elliot, Coloccini, Dummett, Mbemba, Anita, Colback, De Jong, Gouffran, Marveaux, Sissoko, Thauvin, Wijnaldum, Cisse, Mitrovic, Perez.
    Liverpool (from): Bogdan, Mignolet, Clyne, Jose Enrique, Lovren, Moreno, Skrtel, Toure, Allen, Henderson, Ibe, Lallana, Lucas, Milner, Rossiter, Teixeira, Benteke, Firmino, Origi, Sturridge.

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