Playing with 10 men on the field for more than an hour, Liverpool came back spectacularly with a brace goal from Nunez

The latest match in the third round of the Premier League between Newcastle and Liverpool ended with a 2-1 victory for the visitors, on a day when they only played with 10 people on the field for more than an hour.

Goal
Newcastle: Gordon (25′)
Liverpool: Nunez (81′, 90+3′)

Red card
Liverpool: Van Dijk (29′)

Entering the welcome screen to Liverpool in the highlight match of the third round of the Premier League, Newcastle coach Eddie Howe kept the same squad that played in the minimum defeat against Man City in the previous round. Meanwhile, coach Jurgen Klopp decided to use rookie Wataru Endo from the start, while keeping Diogo Jota on the bench.

The fact that the two teams used the same 4-3-3 formation, with a large concentration of personnel in the midfield, made the speed of the match quite high right after the opening whistle, but there were not many dangerous opportunities. create. It took 16 minutes for his first shot to hit goal but Joelinton was unable to beat goalkeeper Alisson and a minute later, Luis Diaz had Liverpool’s answer when he accelerated from the middle of the field and entered the box first. when the shot into the narrow corner made Nick Pope struggle to save.

After these two dangerous situations in a row, the match returned to the same tension as at the beginning. However, the turning point of the match came very quickly in 3 minutes in the middle of the first half. 25 minutes, Mohamed Salah had a fairly simple pass to Trent Alexander-Arnold, but the England defender failed to control it and gave Anthony Gordon a chance to steal it. was able and accelerated from the middle of the field to penetrate the box and make an easy finish that beat Alisson to open the scoring.

In the 28th minute, another situation of losing the ball in the middle of the field of Liverpool players created conditions for Newcastle to counterattack, when Alexander Isak escaped very quickly, causing central defender Virgil Van Dijk to make a foul and referee John Brooks immediately drew a red card and The Kop were only 10 men on the field for the second consecutive match.

After losing people, Liverpool still tried to attack to find the equalizer but did not create many opportunities. With Newcastle, the home team had very quick counter-attacks and if they were lucky and goalkeeper Alisson was not excellent, Chih Cho might have had one more goal before the break.

Entering the second half, with a competitive advantage and the support of the home audience, Newcastle always actively pressed high, constantly pushing the Liverpool team to the home field. However, the attacking situations of the Cockroach only caused a little turbulence in front of Alisson’s goal, the most significant of which was the situation of speeding from Miguel Almiron’s home field before the ice cut in front of the Liverpool penalty area. and made a cut to hit the post in the 76th minute.

With Liverpool, the lack of players makes the attacking deployment situations of the away team become more discrete. Liverpool only created the best chance in the 67th minute, but Mohamed Salah’s effort in the penalty area was played by Sven Botman to neutralize it.

It seemed that the struggle would end with a victory for Newcastle, but suddenly it came in the 81st minute. Starting from a fairly simple situation on the left side of Liverpool, the volley went straight to central defender Sven Botman on the side. The Newcastle side changed direction for the striker to come on as a substitute, Darwin Nunez snatched it and escaped very quickly to finish the corner to hit Pope’s net to equalize the score.

The earthquake in St. James’s Park did not stop, when Newcatle was the team that held the game for about 10 minutes in the end of the game but received a bitter fruit in the 3rd minute of injury time. Starting from a situation to lose the ball of Bruno Guimaraes in the middle of the field, Salah was real. Showing a very fast slot for Nunez to climb up and still be the corner of the shot like an equalizer, the Uruguayan striker completed a double to seal a spectacular 2-1 victory for Liverpool.

Lineup
Newcastle: Pope, Trippier, Schar, Botman (Anderson 87′), Burn, Tonali (Longstaff 72′), Bruno Guimaraes, Joelinton (Anderson 82′), Almiron, Isak (Wilson 72′), Gordon (Barnes 72′)
Liverpool: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip (Quansah 77′), Van Dijk, Robertson, Endo (Elliott 58′), Mac Alisster (Nunez 77′), Szoboszlai, Diaz (Joe Gomez 33′), Gakpo (Jota 58′), Salah