A battle of the North features on the Premier League New Year's Day menu for 2024, as Liverpool host Newcastle United at their Anfield base on Monday.
The Reds are on course to enter January at the summit of the standings courtesy of a 2-0 Boxing Day beating of Burnley, while the Magpies were humbled 3-1 at home by Nottingham Forest last time out.
Wasted openings came back to bite Liverpool in their pulsating pre-Christmas draw with then-leaders Arsenal, and an identical tale almost befell Jurgen Klopp's outfit at Turf Moor, where chance after chance went begging after Darwin Nunez curled home a delightful opener.
However, even as the Burnley faithful began to find their voice after two disallowed goals for the Reds - one far more controversial than the other - Vincent Kompany's men could not capitalise, and Diogo Jota rubber-stamped a Liverpool triumph with a 90th-minute effort from an incredibly tight angle.
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