Liverpool beat 10-man Newcastle United 3-2 in Premier League thriller

Rio Ngumoha scores 100th infinitesimal victor for Liverpool connected his debut, aft Newcastle combat backmost from 2 goals down.

Liverpool needed a 100th infinitesimal victor from 16-year-old Rio Ngumoha to bushed Newcastle United 3-2 aft blowing a two-goal pb against 10 men successful a Premier League thriller.

Ryan Gravenberch and longtime Newcastle people Hugo Ekitike struck for the English champions connected Monday, either broadside of Anthony Gordon’s reddish paper for a chaotic lunge connected Virgil van Dijk.

But amid a frenzied ambiance astatine St James’ Park, the Magpies battled backmost done Bruno Guimaraes and William Osula lone to beryllium denied by teenage sensation Ngumoha’s precocious strike.

Victory takes Liverpool level connected maximum points from 2 games with Tottenham and rubric rivals Arsenal, who question to Anfield connected Sunday.

Newcastle stay without a triumph arsenic they miss their want-away striker Alexander Isak. Liverpool are the apt destination if Isak does permission earlier the transportation model closes successful a week’s time.

Adding to the Magpies’ vexation is the information the Premier League champions besides won the contention to motion Ekitike, who Newcastle had lined up arsenic a imaginable Isak replacement.

Liverpool brag Arne Slot named caller signings Ekitike and Florian Wirtz, alongside Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah successful an ultra-offensive lineup that saw Dominik Szoboszlai deputise arsenic a makeshift right-back.

After failing to onshore a fig of striker targets successful the transportation market, Newcastle’s deficiency of a objective fig 9 was exposed arsenic they failed to interruption down 10-man Aston Villa successful a 0-0 gully to statesman their play past weekend.

And it outgo them again against Liverpool during a ascendant opening 30 minutes.

Roared connected by a ferocious capableness assemblage of much than 50,000, Newcastle penned Liverpool wrong their ain fractional without uncovering the last finish.

Instead it was the visitors who took the pb wholly against the tally of play connected 35 minutes.

Gravenberch took purpose from good extracurricular the country and powered an inch-perfect changeable disconnected the wrong of the post.

Gravenberch scores Liverpool’s opener [George Wood/Getty Images]

It got adjacent worse for Newcastle earlier the interruption arsenic Gordon took retired his vexation by charging precocious into Van Dijk and was dismissed aft a VAR reappraisal showed his studs had raked down the Dutch defender’s Achilles.

Slot had not adjacent taken his spot for the 2nd fractional by the clip his broadside doubled their pb 20 seconds in.

Ekitike made it 2 goals successful arsenic galore Premier League games with a composed side-footed decorativeness from Cody Gakpo’s pass.

Newcastle’s consciousness of injustice lone accrued erstwhile Ibrahima Konate escaped a 2nd yellowish paper moments aboriginal for a propulsion connected Harvey Barnes.

But minutes aft being booked for taking his protests excessively far, a fired up Guimaraes outmuscled Milos Kerkez to caput successful astatine the backmost post.

Liverpool struggled to marque their antheral vantage number for the entirety of the 2nd fractional and were made to pay.

Despite his deficiency of guardant options, Howe has been reluctant to tract Osula, but the young Dane netted conscionable his 2nd Premier League extremity erstwhile helium bundled the shot beyond Alisson from a Dan Burn flick-on.

Newcastle continued to complaint guardant successful hunt of a memorable winner, lone to beryllium picked retired by Liverpool’s attacking quality.

Salah’s walk was brilliantly dummied by Szoboszlai to permission Ngumoha unmarked to curl calmly into the acold country conscionable days earlier his 17th birthday.

Liverpool skipper van Dijk praised Ngumoha and his different teammates for the hard-fought win.

“I’m truly really pleased for Rio. He has to support moving hard, to enactment humble, and I’m definite helium volition bash that,” helium said aft the game.

“Newcastle person the quality, it is ever a hard spot to travel and it was today. I bask this benignant of atmosphere, but we could person made it easier. But we’ve got the 3 points, and we determination on. There were galore bully things today.”

Meanwhile, Newcastle’s skipper Guimaraes said Gordon’s reddish paper came retired of over-eagerness.

“I deliberation helium wanted to assistance excessively much. I deliberation sometimes you are truthful excited to play you marque immoderate mistakes,” Guimaraes told Sky Sports.

“It’s happened to me. We ever effort to springiness our best. There is simply a batch of sound extracurricular that we cannot control.”

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies