Newcastle United are about to make Champions League historical past.
Properly, kind of.
No facet within the historical past of the competitors have ever travelled so far as Eddie Howe’s crew will once they make the two,529-mile journey to Azerbaijan for the primary leg of their final 16 play-off towards Qarabag subsequent month.
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Gamers and workers, alike, are definitely getting used to life on the street once more following their midweek journey to Paris.
In reality, Newcastle play six of their subsequent seven video games away from house.
How Newcastle navigate this collection of gruelling fixtures will go a protracted technique to deciding the destiny this season as they contest knockout ties within the Champions League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup and, after all, some crunch video games within the Premier League, too.
The squad goes to be wanted so Howe might be heartened by how so many gamers stepped up within the midweek draw towards Paris St-Germain, notably when Newcastle’s file on their travels has been so poor.
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However the huge matches simply carry on coming.
Newcastle now journey to Anfield to tackle champions Liverpool at a venue they haven’t gained at since 1994.
“We discovered Anfield a troublesome setting to seek out outcomes,” Howe added. “A few of our performances there have been fairly good in my tenure there, however the outcomes have not matched that.
“We have now been shut a couple of instances, however it’s a powerful place to play. Take away the stadium and the setting, Liverpool have been superb through the years and I respect them as a soccer crew.
“We have now received to be at our absolute easiest to get something.”