Mohamed Salah has scored more Premier League goals against Newcastle United than any other Liverpool player of the modern era, and remarkably, Newcastle have never actually beaten a Salah inclusive Liverpool side in the fixture.
It’s a remarkable record given how competitive both clubs have been across different periods of the Premier League era, and one that shows no immediate sign of ending. Anyone checking Newcastle vs Liverpool odds for this weekend’s game is backing a fixture with a genuinely rich history of prolific individual performances on both sides.
Several players have made this particular meeting their own over the years, scoring heavily and rarely leaving Anfield or St James’ Park without a mark on the scoresheet. Here are four of the standout names from across the Premier League era.
Mohamed Salah
Salah has scored 10 Premier League goals against Newcastle across his Liverpool career, including a brace in a 3-3 draw at St James’ Park and further goals in a 4-2 win on New Year’s Day 2024. His side never lost to Newcastle in any competition with him in the squad, whether during his brief spell at Chelsea or since his move to Anfield in 2017, a record that stretches across more than a dozen meetings.
For those tracking Premier League top 4 odds each season, Salah’s record against Newcastle has often played a part in Liverpool’s push for Champions League qualification.
Michael Owen
Owen built a formidable record against Newcastle while at Liverpool, highlighted by a first half hat-trick in a 4-1 win in August 1998 that announced his arrival as one of the country’s most feared young forwards during the early stages of his career.
Owen scored heavily against the Magpies throughout his time on Merseyside, netting in 13 Premier League goals and one League Cup goal against the club, before an unusual twist in his career saw him join Newcastle himself in 2005, ending his run of scoring against the club he later represented.
Robbie Fowler
Fowler scored twice in each of Liverpool’s two famous 4-3 wins over Newcastle in April 1996 and March 1997, matches widely regarded among the greatest the Premier League has produced. Both games ended with a stoppage time winner, the first from Stan Collymore and the second from Fowler himself, cementing his reputation as a player who thrived in the biggest occasions against Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle side during one of the most entertaining periods either club has enjoyed.
Andy Cole
Cole announced himself in the fixture from the opposite side, scoring a hat-trick for Newcastle in a 3-0 win over Liverpool in November 1993 during his prolific first full season at the club under Keegan’s attacking Entertainers side.
He would go on to become one of the Premier League’s most feared strikers before a move to Manchester United in 1995, but that early hat-trick against Liverpool remains one of the clearest examples of the goalscoring form that made him such a wanted player across the division.
Between them, these four players show that this fixture has rewarded strikers and forwards from both sides across three different decades, and it remains one of the more reliable fixtures in the competition for producing a memorable individual display, whatever else is at stake in the match itself.
