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Remembering Liverpool’s Amazing 4-3 Win over Newcastle in April 1996
- Updated: April 22, 2016
Liverpool welcome Newcastle United to Anfield on Saturday afternoon, 20 years on from one of the Premier League’s most entertaining clashes: a remarkable 4-3 win for the Reds back in April 1996.
As Rafa Benitez’s Magpies take to Merseyside this weekend, the Spaniard will no doubt be hammering into his side the importance of fighting spirit; drawing from his time in charge of the Reds—not only from their UEFA Champions League triumph in Istanbul in 2005, but also 1996’s comeback win at home to Newcastle.
A result etched into the history of both Liverpool Football Club and the Premier League, as an enduring advertisement of the English top flight’s entertainment value, that Anfield triumph will serve as inspiration for both Benitez and his counterpart, Jurgen Klopp.
For two sides at opposite ends of the Premier League table, this could prove pivotal on Saturday at Anfield.
Both sides headed into that clash with ambitions of securing the 1995/96 Premier League title, with Newcastle three points behind leaders Manchester United with two games in hand, and Liverpool eight points from the top spot with a one-game advantage.
The Magpies manager was Kevin Keegan—a Liverpool legend, having won three First Division titles, one European Cup and two UEFA Cups with the club over a six-year period with the Reds in the 1970s—while Boot Room alumnus Roy Evans took his place in the home dugout.
Setting his side up in a positive 4-4-2, Keegan named former Liverpool midfielder Peter Beardsley alongside French dynamo David Ginola and centre-forward pairing Faustino Asprilla and Les Ferdinand.
The audacious Evans, meanwhile, opted for an attack-heavy system, with the magisterial Steve McManaman driving the attack behind Stan Collymore and Robbie Fowler, while a three-man defensive line of Mark Wright, John Scales and Neil Ruddock shielded young goalkeeper David James.
Fowler struck first, sending the ball past a sprawling Pavel Srnicek after just two minutes, …
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