Top 5 famous Newcastle v Liverpool Premier League clashes

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Newcastle United and Liverpool have produced some of the most dramatic matches English football has seen since the Premier League began, and their first meeting of the upcoming season revives a fixture with a genuinely rich history behind it.

Few fixtures have combined title race stakes with pure attacking chaos quite as often as this one. Anyone checking Newcastle vs Liverpool odds for this game is backing two clubs whose past meetings rarely settled for a quiet afternoon.

From title race drama to one-sided routs, here are five of the most memorable clashes between the two sides, spanning almost every era of the competition's history.

Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle, April 1996

Widely regarded as one of the greatest matches in Premier League history, this Anfield thriller saw Robbie Fowler score twice and Stan Collymore add a stoppage time winner to complete his own brace, with Les Ferdinand, David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla scoring for Newcastle in a match that swung back and forth throughout.

Kevin Keegan's side had led the title race by 12 points earlier that season but eventually finished second to Manchester United, while Liverpool ended the campaign third under Roy Evans.

Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle, March 1997

Remarkably, the two sides produced an almost identical scoreline the following season, with Liverpool racing into a 3-0 half time lead through Steve McManaman, Fowler and Patrick Berger.

Newcastle, by now managed by Kenny Dalglish following Keegan's resignation, scored three times in 17 minutes to level the match, only for Fowler to net a stoppage time winner once again. Newcastle finished second for a second consecutive season, while Liverpool ended up fourth.

Liverpool 4-1 Newcastle, August 1998

A teenage Michael Owen announced himself with a first half hat-trick as Liverpool beat Newcastle 4-1 early in the 1998-99 season. For those tracking Premier League odds winner markets, Owen's performance that day was an early sign of the kind of form that would soon make him one of the most feared young forwards in Europe. Liverpool finished seventh that season, with Newcastle down in 13th.

Liverpool 6-0 Newcastle, April 2013

One of the most one-sided results in the fixture's history came at Anfield in 2013, as Liverpool ran riot against a Newcastle side that had little answer on the day. The scoreline remains the heaviest defeat Newcastle have suffered in this fixture during the Premier League era, and a stark contrast to the tight, dramatic finishes that defined the sides' earlier meetings. Liverpool finished seventh that season under Brendan Rodgers, while Newcastle slipped to 16th.

Newcastle 1-2 Liverpool, August 2023

A more recent classic came at St James' Park, where Anthony Gordon put Newcastle ahead early on before Virgil van Dijk levelled for Liverpool midway through the first half. The game looked set to end in a share of the points until Darwin Nunez struck in the third minute of stoppage time to snatch a dramatic late win for the visitors.

Liverpool went on to finish third that season in Jurgen Klopp's final campaign in charge, while Newcastle finished seventh and qualified for the Champions League.

These five matches span nearly three decades of Premier League football, and together they explain why a fixture between these two clubs so rarely disappoints, whatever is at stake when they meet again this weekend.