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Key occasions
82 min: Newcastle make a concussion substitution, changing the stricken Schar with new-boy Thiaw.
81 min: The sport restarts. Guimaraes clatters into Chiesa, entrance on, and is barely lucky to not choose up a second card. He’s treading a effective line.
80 min: Whereas the sport is paused, Liverpool change Wirtz and Ekitike with Bradley and Chiesa.
79 min: Fortunately Schar is sitting up, however he’s being handled for a lower to the again of his head.
77 min: Schar goes up with Van Dijk and Guimaraes, then goes down and stays down, inventory nonetheless. A head harm. The referee waves play on. Ultimately the whistle goes to cease play. Schar appears to be like very groggy certainly, and the physio takes nice care to cradle his neck as he comes on.
76 min: After an extended interval of admin, Joelinton, Barnes and Trippier make manner for Corridor, Ramsey and Osula.
75 min: Joelinton can’t proceed. He might have opened up a joint in over-stretching. He hobbles off, and shall be one in all three Newcastle gamers to get replaced.
73 min: Joelinton stretches for a ball in midfield, hoping to get in forward of Gravenberch. He does that, however goes down in a heap. He appears to be like in some discomfort, holding the highest of his thigh. On comes the physio.
72 min: Liverpool play some affected person keep-ball within the centre of the park. St James’ Park falls quiet in consequence. Some sensible game-management right here. Liverpool wanted it.
70 min: Some house for Salah on the proper. He cuts infield and appears for Gakpo on the far stick, however will get the cross all flawed. Objective kick.
68 min: A uncommon Liverpool assault. Gakpo has the chance to feed Kerkez on the underlap, however tries to search out Salah on the far stick as a substitute. Livramento ushers the ball out for a aim kick.
67 min: The ten males of Newcastle have loved 90 p.c of possession over the past 5 minutes.
66 min: Tonali’s shoulder continues to hassle him, and he’s compelled to make manner for Miley. When the sport restarts, Schar twists Kerkez in and out down the proper, and fires into the six-yard field. Szoboszlai flips clear simply in time, with black and white shirts ready to prod house.
65 min: Yet one more Livramento throw from the left. Schar goes down upon feeling Gakpo’s hand on the again of his shirt. Not sufficient contact, and play continues.
64 min: … Trippier swings viciously beneath the Liverpool crossbar. Alisson is compelled to paw out, else the ball curl into the online, then punch the dropping ball clear. Liverpool instantly on the again foot once more.
63 min: Livramento flings one other lengthy throw into the Liverpool field from the left. Van Dijk is compelled to go behind for a nook amid a six-yard-box meleé. And from that nook …
62 min: Wirtz competes for a ball within the midfield with Tonali, his arm clapping the Newcastle man on the ear through the tussle. Tonali goes down and desires punishment, performing the elbow mime, however the referee isn’t shopping for it. We play on.
60 min: Kerkez takes his time over a throw and earns himself a ticking off from the referee. No yellow card, although. Not but.
59 min: That’s received St James’ Park going once more. The house followers had been quiet since Gordon’s dismissal, however now the pot’s effervescent once more. Dreadful defending by Kerkez, who was wanting the flawed manner and buckled, however what willpower from Newcastle’s captain!
GOAL! Newcastle United 1-2 Liverpool (Guimaraes 57)
Livramento throws in lengthy from the left. Gravenberch heads it again to him. Livramento curls it deep for Guimaraes, who overpowers Kerkez and vegetation an excellent header into the underside proper! Recreation again on!
55 min: Tonali was grappling with Ekitike then fell awkwardly. He’s OK to proceed for now. “Getting again to the sending off, probably the most baffling side of all of it for me was that it revealed Virgil van Dijk has personalised shinpads,” notes David Bowen.
54 min: A pause in play so Tonali can get some therapy for a sore left shoulder. He appears to be like in some discomfort.
52 min: Salah, Ekitike and Wirtz practically open up Newcastle with some intricate triangles down the proper. Newcastle nearly maintain their form.
50 min: Szoboszlai and Salah mix crisply down the left. The previous crosses low; Schar slams clear with purple shirts lurking. Newcastle must clear their heads and fast.
48 min: Newcastle’s heads have gone a wee bit right here. Gakpo is clipped from behind by Tonali. Only a free kick, however Tonali tries to interact Ekitike in a shoving match. He calms down rapidly sufficient, which might be for the very best.
47 min: That aim took 23 second-half seconds. Arne Slot wasn’t even out of the tunnel, and missed it. Upon the restart, Konate barges Barnes, who falls to the ground. Guimaraes needs a free kick that he’s not getting, and says an excessive amount of. Into the ebook he goes.
GOAL! Newcastle United 0-2 Liverpool (Ekitike 46)
Liverpool instantly come streaming ahead. Ekitike powers down the center, holding off Tonali. He feeds Gakpo to his left. Gakpo’s shot is blocked. He nudges the rebound to Ekitike, who fires a low first-time drive off the bottom of the left-hand put up and in!
Newcastle United get the second half began. No adjustments.
Half-time postbag. “I’m discovering these RefCam photographs barely nauseating. The wobbly in-your-face photographs are just a little paying homage to Peep Present, though Tremendous Hans, Dobby, and naturally Alan Johnson are far more-suited to elite-level officiating than a lot of the present crew” – Paul Griffin
“Watching Liverpool’s early struggles, I made a decision it was time to interrupt out my fortunate Gerrard jersey. Certain sufficient, they rating nearly instantly after I put it on, and now Gordon is distributed off. You’re welcome, Reds followers!” – Joe Pearson
“Gutted for ex-Evertonian Gordon, he was wanting so good. The purple is a deserved name” – Mary Waltz
HALF TIME: Newcastle United 0-1 Liverpool
It’s unravelled rapidly for Newcastle. The groups depart to annoyed boos, however Anthony Gordon has dumped his team-mates – who had been a lot the higher aspect for almost all of the half – in a spot of hassle.
45 min +4: Gordon was throughout Van Dijk’s achilles there, and will have buckled his standing leg too. The referee had no selection. It was a depressing, hot-headed lunge.
RED CARD: Gordon (Newcastle United)
45 min +3: It’s purple. It was a horrible problem. Van Dijk is OK to proceed. The defender seems to harbour no ailing will to Gordon, and throws a pleasant arm throughout his shoulder and faucets him on the again as he departs. Eddie Howe shakes his head sadly as his man disappears down the tunnel.
45 min +2: Gordon is coming in super-hard, and super-late. The referee is about to announce a overview.
45 min: Gordon, chasing down from a great distance away, comes by the again of Van Dijk’s standing leg because the Liverpool defender makes an attempt a clearance. It’s a really poor mid-air problem. Studs down the again of the leg. Yellow card. Kerkez goes nostril to nostril with Gordon, and Guimaraes separates the pair. However VAR asks the referee to have a re-assessment. Gordon could possibly be in bother right here.
44 min: Salah is caught from behind by Burn. It’s a poor lunge. Yellow card.
42 min: Liverpool stream ahead, Gakpo chopping in from the left and sending a diagonal in direction of Salah on the right-hand nook of the Toon field. Salah curls an inviting low ball by the realm. Jones, alone ten yards out, can’t join, and it’s too far in entrance of Ekitike, dashing in from the opposite aspect.
41 min: Wirtz hasn’t received into the sport in any respect. He’s received a little bit of house down the left, however not as a lot time as he thinks, and Trippier comes throughout to barge him off the ball. Some Premier League acclimatisation could also be required right here.
39 min: … so having stated that, the hosts choose up the pace once more, Elanga making good house down the proper and crossing lengthy, hopefully for Gordon. Szoboszlai will get in forward of his man and flashes a header vast left. A nook, from which nothing comes.
38 min: Liverpool instantly look just a little extra assured, Newcastle subdued.
37 min: That’s shocked the denizens of St James’ Park, who can’t consider what they’ve simply seen. Newcastle have been completely dominant, however Gordon missed the 2 possibilities they made, and Liverpool have hit them with a traditional sucker-punch.
GOAL! Newcastle United 0-1 Liverpool (Gravenberch 35)
Nicely, effectively, effectively, wouldn’t you recognize it? Liverpool take it down a notch with some affected person possession. Then Gakpo, on the left, feeds Gravenberch, who takes one other step infield. Gravenberch takes a contact to create space to shoot, then rifles a low drive by Guimaraes’ legs, off the bottom of the left-hand put up and in. Pope rooted to the spot! What a end! What a smash and seize!
33 min: Ekitike clanks a easy cross out for a throw. You may hear the pantomime jeering from the place you might be, can’t you? “Newcastle are implausible,” writes Tanay Padhi. “Snappy in midfield, fast in transition, high quality balls into the field. I really feel like they’re nearly a crack outfit, simply can’t fairly put my finger on what the lacking ingredient right here is.”
32 min: Tonali blazes previous Konate down the center of the park. That was absurdly straightforward. He doesn’t fairly have the tempo to beat Van Dijk as effectively, so appears to be like for Gordon within the center. Alisson, sensible to the grift, races off his line to smother. Liverpool are clinging on right here. They’re being given the right runaround.
31 min: Van Dijk and Konate trade a couple of low-voltage passes on the again, once more making an attempt to take some sting out of proceedings. There’s no ball out, although, and it quickly leads to Pope’s fingers.