Matches Playing 3rd May 2009

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• Liverpool have won six of their last seven Premier League games against Newcastle.
• Xabi Alonso's four goals this season for the Reds have all come away from Anfield.
• Newcastle won their first Premier League game at Anfield (2-0 in April 1994) but have not won any of the subsequent 14, losing 12 of them.
• The Reds have scored 63 goals against Newcastle, more than they have against any other team in the Premier League history.
• Liverpool's 12 home wins against Newcastle is more than the Reds have managed against any other side in the Premier League.
• Alan Smith has played 305 minutes this season without winning a foul, more than any other player in the Premier League.
• Fernando Torres has scored a Premier League goal every 85 minutes on average at Anfield in his Liverpool career.
• Only six sides in 20-team Premier League history have avoided relegation after being in the drop zone with four games to go.
• All of those sides have collected at least eight points in their last four matches.
• Liverpool have not had a man sent off this season but have seen nine opposition players sent off.

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• Everton have racked up 11 goals in their last three top-flight encounters with Sunderland.
• There has never been a Premier League draw between these sides in the north east.
• Everton have won their last three league games at the Stadium of Light by one goal to nil.
• The Black Cats scored 12 goals in their first six Premier League games against the Toffeemen but have managed only five in the subsequent nine matches.
• Everton have scored the most headed goals (14) and most set-piece goals (21) in the Premier League this season.
• Sunderland have managed only four goals in their last nine league games.
• The Black Cats' last three home defeats have been by two goals to one.
• Bolton and Manchester City are the only away sides to have scored more than two goals at the Stadium of Light this season.
• Everton have gone seven Premier League away games without a win but five of those matches have ended as draws.
• Three of Everton's last four away draws have been goalless; the other was a 3-3 at Villa.