With the clash at St James' Park sure to be a white-hot encounter given the Alexander Isak transfer drama, Arne Slot's Liverpool have suffered a blow this morning.
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It's emerged frontliner Alexis Mac Allister isn't in the traveling party to Tyneside. The Argentina international has ruled himself out of the trip
Reports suggest Mac Allister is absent from the 21-man squad as his wife is about to give birth.
Mac Allister has started Liverpool's first two games of this season.