Report, Result and Objectives while the NGUMOHA adolescent installs the classic in the middle of the Drama Isak

Rio Ngumoha’s 100th minute strike won a spectacular 3-2 victory against Newcastle United for the Liverpool champions while surviving a remarkable response from the Eddie Howe team in St James’ Park.

Liverpool’s visit to the Northeast in a revenge match of the EFL Cup final they lost against the Magpies in March took place in the middle of the backdrop of the drama of Alexander Isak, with Newcastle Star striker refusing to train or play for the club while trying to force a movement to the Reds.

This saga ensured a fierce atmosphere on Tyneside, but Liverpool resisted a first half storm and, after the opening of Ryan Gravenberch and the third goal of Hugo Ekitike in as many appearances, sandwiched by the Gordon red card for an imprudent fault on Virgil Van Dijk, an outside victory appeared the only point of plausible result.

But Bruno Guimaraes’ header gave Newcastle Hope and William Osula seemed to have saved a point where the replacement, the only recognized central attacker of the Magpies in the self-imposed exile of Isak, leveled two minutes from the end of normal time.

The injuries to Sandro Tonali, Jelinton and Fabian Schar assured 11 minutes of injury time and, although Newcastle seemed the most likely to score a winner for a large part of the additional time, Ngumoha, 16, produced a wonderful finish with a superb Liverpool movement to secure the maximum points at the end of another classic between two sides that produced so much.

Newcastle United against Liverpool

A fractive and frantic departure gave way to an opening period dominated by Newcastle. However, as was the case in their first match at Aston Villa, struggled to take advantage of their superiority.

The final ball was so often lacked for Newcastle and, when she came from Harvey Barnes in the 28th minute, Gordon could only go closely above the transverse bar.

Unlike Villa, Newcastle was paid while Gravenberch produced a magic moment seven minutes later.

An effort to curl tamed Florian Wirtz had represented the only Liverpool shot on the target of half-time before Gravenberch, returning to the side after the birth of his child, took a weak effort on the edge of the area through the legs of the Guimaraes and off the left post.

This objective managed to keep the momentum from Newcastle, and things got worse for hosts in time when, after a Pitch review, referee Simon Hooper, considered Gordon, had committed a serious unfair game with his badly advised challenge on Van Dijk.

Gordon’s dismissal left Newcastle with a mountain to climb and without the man who had tried to fill the void left by Isak. Barely 30 seconds after restarting the second half, the man who could have facilitated a transfer from Isak to Liverpool if he had joined Newcastle stacked the pain on hosts when Ekitike reproduced Gravenberch by sliding an effort beyond Nick Pope using the woodwork.

Despite their digital drawback, Newcastle found a buoy for the life of their captain’s blue courtesy.

Liverpool failed to properly erase the long lance of Tino Livramento in the box, and the next ball from the rear in the box was returned to the pole distant from Guimaraes.

Newcastle lost Tonali in a shoulder problem, and its release was followed by Jelinton’s a problem with the groin and Fabian Schar to an apparent concussion.

But the hosts refused to say to die and, after Liverpool did not manage to face a long ball in front of a free kick, Osula seemed to have made herself an unlikely hero when he pushed beyond Alisson on questions of improbable level.

Newcastle has spent a large part of the time having time to make an amazing turnaround. However, they were taken by an excellent movement of visitors, which was capped when Ngumoha looked beyond a defenseless pope to settle a breathless meeting. These are two victories of two for Liverpool, but they leave this game with questions to answer while Newcastle will try to trace a line soon under the Isak saga.