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From Shamoon Hafez
BBC Sport
Liverpool v Newcastle – a fixture that has seen tons of moments that are iconic and bags of goals.
The two sides meet again in Anfield on Saturday (kick-off 12:30 BST) together with Liverpool top of this table won their opening four matches, although Newcastle have enhanced following a poor start.
Use the ranked list under to put those Liverpool v Newcastle Premier League matches as a way of has been the most memorable.
Rank these six unforgettable Liverpool v Newcastle games from the Premier League age
Goalscorer: Andy Cole (3)
Kevin Keegan’s side, dubbed’The Entertainers’, were playing who won the previous season to the Division One title.
Liverpool, as one, came to St James’ Park under Graeme Souness but had been defeated by Andy Cole in conditions from the north west.
The first two objectives of cole were typical poacher’s efforts, stretching a leg ahead of Bruce Grobbelaar on the two events to convert from six yards out, while his third has been side-footed in from distance.
Souness lost his job and was replaced by Roy Evans. While the Magpies procured a third-place finish liverpool finished the season in position.
Goalscorers: Robbie Fowler (2), Stan Collymore (two ); Les Ferdinand, David Ginola, Faustino Asprilla
Them’s greatest Premier League game all? The ebb and flow of a highly dramatic contest played below the floodlights on a rough pitch in front of a raucous Anfield crowd.
Reds legend Robbie Fowler headed in at the back post for the opener, while Newcastle equalised since the shot of Les Ferdinand squirmed through David James’ hands.
Frenchman David Ginola slotted in for 2-1 and ran through on goal, however, Fowler equalised with a gorgeous outside-of-the-foot finish in the second half.
Faustino Asprilla stroked in as James flew to put Newcastle in again, before Stan Collymore converted in the back post from Jason McAteer’s low cross for 3-3.
With John Barnes and Ian Rush and time running out playing with keep-ball from the opposition halfof the ball has been squeezed out broad for Collymore to smash home the winner in injury time.
Martin Tyler’s unforgettable, hair-raising commentary on Sky Sports reached a crescendo:”Barnes, Rush, Barnes, nevertheless John Barnes, Collymore… CLOSING INNNNNNN, Liverpool lead in stoppage time! Kevin Keegan hangs his mind, he is devastated.”
Fans went from the stands, although their frontman Keegan slumped on the advertising hoardings realizing the title was falling away.
Goalscorers: Steve McManaman, Patrik Berger, Robbie Fowler (2); Keith Gillespie, Faustino Asprilla, Warren Barton
Remarkably, the next season saw these 2 sides discuss another match at Anfield after Keegan had quit in January 1997 and it was a feeling.
The Anfield surface was better and Steve McManaman’s opener was outstanding, curling from the edge of the area at a finish.
A minute afterwards, Patrik Berger made it 2-0 after Fowler’s shot ricocheted off the pole, while the Englishman stabbed home the third before the hesitant Shaka Hislop – all before half-time.
Newcastle came out shooting in the second period – Keith Gillespie pulling back one with 19 minutes remaining from the edge of the box by means of a James howler.
James went walkabout letting Asprilla to lob at a conclusion on 87 minutes and Warren Barton thought he had earned when he poked in for 3-3.
But Newcastle’s pleasure was short lived as Fowler leapt to meet the cross of Stig Inge Bjornebye as the Magpies finished second to Manchester United in the league and plant a header into the corner. Again.
Goalscorers: David Edgar; Steven Gerrard (2), Sami Hyypia, Ryan Babel, Xabi Alonso
Rafael Benitez side thumped Joe Kinnear’s men 5-1 – before turning supplied to the towering header from a corner of Hyypia, Gerrard smacking from the opener from the post.
Newcastle pulled one back before but Babel appeared in, Gerrard ran through and dinked in his next, while Alonso inserted the fifth from the penalty spot.
Liverpool’s place was cemented by the result at the top of the table and 11 brings cost them dearly, finally losing the title by four factors even though they lost throughout the 2008-09 year.
Goalscorers: Kevin Nolan Andy Carroll; Dirk Kuyt
When Alan Pardew was appointed Newcastle director to replace Chris Hughton, few Magpies fans might have hoped for a better beginning.
Kevin Nolan lashed the opener until Dirk Kuyt’s equaliser for a Liverpool side containing David Ngog, Paul Konchesky and Sotirios Kyrgiakos.
With 10 minutes remaining, Joey Barton nipped ahead of Pepe Reina and Glen Johnson to poke home the next, while Andy Carroll smacked in a low.
Roy Hodgson was left licking at his face in humiliation on the touchline and has been sacked to be replaced by Dalglish.
Goalscorers: Daniel Agger, Jordan Henderson (2), Daniel Sturridge (2), Fabio Borini
Still another Newcastle thrashing in Liverpool’s hands at St James’ Park, their greatest is defeated by this 6-0 at home in the Premier League.
This was Liverpool’s first match because striker Luis Suarez was given a hefty 10-game ban for biting the Branislav Ivanovic of Chelsea, but they did not overlook the Uruguayan.
January registering Philippe Coutinho was influential, crossing for Danish defender Daniel Agger to head in the opener and Jordan Henderson finished off a fine team move.
It got worse for the hosts in the second halfof Daniel Sturridge slotting home and the Englishman then rolling in the fourth out of close range.
Fabio Borini came from the bench to score the fifth from Stewart Downing’s cut-back and Henderson curly in a free-kick to its sixth.
Liverpool finished seventh in Brendan Rodgers’ first season in charge, although Newcastle finished five points clear of the relegation zone.
The real classic between the sides came from December 1909 if they shared the Reds coming down in half-time to win 6-5 from Newcastle side who were English champions at the time, with an 11-goal thriller.
This time Newcastle pummelled their competitors 9-2, although in January 1934 the fixture again watched 11 targets – that the Liverpool have surrendered in a top-flight match.
The season proved to be a memorable one for Newcastle, claiming the FA Cup, plus they defeat on Liverpool 4-2 in Anfield in November, aided by the hat-trick of George Robledo.
In September 1987, Steve Nicol netted a hat-trick since Liverpool ran out 4-1 winners in St James’ Park at one of many brilliant performances from a side – including John Barnes and Peter Beardsley – which could go on to win the league title in some fashion.
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