Liverpool travel to St James’ Park on Sunday afternoon to face Newcastle United in what is arguably the most anticipated fixture across matchday three.
The Reds have made a good start to the new season by picking up four points out of a possible six available after drawing against Chelsea and beating Bournemouth last Saturday.
Newcastle, on the other hand, lost 1-0 to treble winners Manchester City in their most recent affair, however, they thrashed Aston Villa in their league opener.
Liverpool have won four of their last five league games at St James’ Park including the last two in a row.
“It’s an away game at Newcastle. Newcastle are an incredibly strong team, qualified for the Champions League, fully deserved. Super development under Eddie Howe, I have to say, smart business. I don’t want to miss anybody but probably the two standouts in this window: Tonali and Barnes. Really good business,” Klopp said.
“Super-intense style, massive atmosphere there, so this is a tough one. Played a really good first game where Aston Villa were really good as well, to be honest. In the end, the result didn’t reflect probably the full game, but in the end how they used their counter-attacks and stuff like this was absolutely exceptional.
“The speed they have is really good. Newcastle since last year at least, they don’t concede a lot but score. So that’s a proper game, and we tried since Sunday night to make sure that we are ready for it. That’s it.”
The German added: “I remember, unfortunately, in this case a defeat at Bournemouth around about Christmas, I think. So, no, there’s nothing. Eddie is a super coach, a super manager.
“My first home game was against Bournemouth in the League Cup – 1-0, Nathaniel Clyne, if I am right. A rare occasion [when] Clyney scored and we had a massively-changed team on the day. No, I can’t explain that. Obviously, we were, for sure, a few times on the lucky side of it but that’s it.”
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