Hello and welcome to LIVE updates of the Premier League clash between Liverpool and Newcastle at Anfield. Kick off 8pm GMT.

SAVE! Salah feeds Jota inside the Newcastle area but the Portugal forward's turn and shot is smartly parried by Dubravka at his near post.

A bright Liverpool start almost sees Jota get free by the left byline but Murphy recovers well to make a crucial challenge.

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Head to head at Anfield: Liverpool 56 wins, Newcastle 11 wins, 17 draws.

KICK OFF! Newcastle get us up and running.

A CLASSIC MOMENT FROM THE PAST. Remembering Xabi Alonso's long-range special once upon a time in this fixture.

DID YOU KNOW? The only team to win one of its opening 17 Premier League games and avoid relegation was West Bromwich Albion in 2004-05. Newcastle currently have one victory from their first 16 attempts this term...

Ibrahima Konate on how training with the likes of Mo Salah and Sadio Mane is helping him improve: "Sometimes when you have the ball, how they will press you it’s amazing, it’s impossible, [he] takes the ball and finishes, it’s a goal. I say, ‘OK, I have to be focused every time, every second, every minute.’ It’s like that to work and I think this is a player for the level of the final of the Champions League. If you train with them every day, of course you will grow and grow and you will be better every day.”

Eddie Howe: “We go to Liverpool believing we can get a positive result if we get everything right in terms of our preparation. I am looking forward to the games, I am not daunted by them.”

More from Klopp. This time the Reds boss sends out a message about boosters via his matchday programme notes.

Jurgen Klopp on the festive schedule: "Everybody is involved and everybody must be ready. I have now no special things to offer. We play five games in 13 days, so there's no 'have a look' or whatever. We have to play, in an ideal world, the best football possible then recover pretty quickly and then get focused again and go again. That's what we have to do – the whole squad. But that's not new. I'm not here since a few days, I'm here for a few years now and that's how it is. This time is very demanding for everybody but that's how it is."

As for Newcastle, Eddie Howe makes three changes. Ryan Fraser, Isaac Hayden and Jacob Murphy come in with top scorer Callum Wilson a notable name dropping to the bench.

COVID-19’s impact on Liverpool’s squad means there are two changes from the weekend win over Aston Villa. That means Ibrahima Konate comes into the defence in place of Virgil van Dijk while Diogo Jota gets the nod with Fabinho also sidelined. Some positive news for Kopites is that Roberto Firmino is back from injury and named on the bench.

CONFIRMED TEAMS – LIVERPOOL: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Konate, Robertson, Henderson, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Thiago, Jota, Mane, Salah... Subs: Kelleher, Milner, Keita, Firmino, Gomez, Minamino, Tsimikas, Williams, Pitaluga. /// NEWCASTLE UNITED: Dubravka, Manquillo, Schar, Lascelles, Lewis, Hayden, Shelvey, Murphy, Saint-Maximin, Fraser, Joelinton... Subs: Darlow, Clark, Wilson, Ritchie, Hendrick, Almiron, Willock, Gayle, Longstaff.