Widening their lead further on the league table after the weekend fixtures, Liverpool face new challenges when they take their title bid to St James’ Park to Newman on Wednesday evening against Newcastle United.

Newcastle United’s men for example ended Manchester City hopes of a title charge with a comfortable 2-0 victory over the stuttering champions on Sunday, after the Magpies were held to a 1-1 draw in stoppage time by Crystal Palace on Saturday.

Scoring two goals to two, Liverpool were the men of the match to the uttermost, pitiful, abject; just as a television play-by-play man described Man City as the boys of the match during the Sunday’s scintillating pre-game script at Anfield that the Etihad team craved for shamelessly.

The start of the season was definitely overwhelming when Cody Gakpo tapped in at the back post, while Mohamed Salah smashed home a second-half penalty to make it ten points clear of Man City. Guardiola of course smirked in response to the fans joking about him looking for his P45.

However, it is worthy the figure six on Sunday showed the sixth Man City defeat in the past seven matches in all meetings and, aside from creating the buffer of ten points over the champions, Liverpool are nine points clear of Arsenal and Chelsea, the next contenders, with a third of the season gone.

It might however be interesting to point that no team since the inception of the Premier-league with at least six points lead after thirteen matches has failed to turn the form around; many believe the race is done and dusted while Liverpool goes from strength to strength left right and center; they have now registered seven consecutive wins in all competitions.

Additionally, Slot's team has scored multiple goals in each of the Reds' previous eight games, and the former Feyenoord manager has not lost on the road since taking over for Jurgen Klopp. The only minor away loss he has had is the draw with Arsenal in October.

Even though Eddie Howe's team was just a few minutes away from departing Selhurst Park on Saturday afternoon with a slim victory to their record, Wednesday's hosts in black and white have a much more common theme of dropped points on the road.

Before the Crystal Palace defender, who has long been linked to a high-profile move to Newcastle, floated a wonderful cross to the back stick, where Daniel Munoz came to head home a stoppage-time equalizer, Marc Guehi's unlucky own goal from an Anthony Gordon cross appeared to be the deciding factor.

Although a point away from home was at least a slight improvement over last week's humiliating 2-0 loss to West Ham United, Newcastle's ongoing inconsistency is once again hurting their chances of qualifying for Europe as they sit in 11th place in the Premier League standings, only four points behind fourth.

The Magpies could now lose back-to-back Premier League games for the third time since taking over the league after failing to defend their goal in the final moments of Saturday's draw. They have only managed two victories in their last nine Premier League games and have failed to score in two of their last three top-flight games at St. James' Park.

Given that Newcastle is now on a six-game losing streak against Liverpool and has lost 15 straight games against the Reds since a 2-0 triumph in December 2015, in which future Liverpool player Georginio Wijnaldum scored, the supporters might be wise to turn away.

In the final third on Wednesday, Newcastle manager Howe may also make a simple swap, but his decision would be imposed because star striker Alexander Isak was substituted off due to what appeared to be a hip injury during the weekend's draw with Palace.

Callum Wilson has a good chance of making his first Premier League start of the season after Howe gave an encouraging report at full time, stating that the Swede's issue was a contact injury rather than a muscle strain or rupture.