Newcastle vs Liverpool prediction

THE FORECAST

Newcastle opens the season under new manager Matthias Jaissle following a disastrous summer with the departures of Bruno Guimarães, Tonali and Gordon, causing the quality of the squad to drop significantly and uncertainty about playing style and automatic patterns is logical. Liverpool, in turn, has also lost quite a few key players (Salah, Robertson, Konaté) and is missing Bradley, Ekitike, Gomez and presumably also Curtis Jones, which also weakens the away side at the start of the season. Both teams are in a transitional phase with new faces and unknown dynamics, which suggests a cautious, hard-fought opening match with a draw as the most logical outcome.