Darth hosts Hamzah, Barts and Si to review the New Years Day shellacking of Newcastle. On the most upbeat pod of the season so far the lads discuss: * The return of our favourite opposition manager * Liverpool lineups, sports science explainer of 2 days off * Newcastle lineup and gameplan * Key match summary and stats: Possession, XG, XT and Big Chances * XG record breakers * Public stats tangent - what will be the next advanced metric to make it to the mass media? * Newcastle manage to keep it quiet - for 10 minutes * Why was the counterpressing so good? Deep dive on what has changed from last season and earlier this season. * First penalty and example of good counterpressing * Curtis Jones tribute, Posssession Control analysis * Newcastle disallowed goal - did we think it was going to be "one of those days"? * Darwin Nunez discussion * Start of 2nd half - Reds reset * The genius of Mo Salah, LFC goal analysis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices