Newcastle 1-2 Liverpool: Match report, player ratings, fan reaction and more

All the action and reaction from St James’ Park.

Written by: Josh Barker
Last update: August 27, 2023 02:00:00 am BST

Newcastle and Liverpool clashed in the Premier League on Sunday as the pair battle it out for a European place.

The Magpies got one over on Liverpool last season, pipping them to a European place.

As a result, Sunday’s game was expected to have a big impact on the top-four rankings come May.

When all was said and done in the North East, Liverpool picked up the win.

Trent Alexander-Arnold should have been sent off for a second yellow card after six minutes but the referee decided not to show one for whatever reason.

Luis Diaz forced the first good save of the day out of Nick Pope 16 minutes in following an impressive run.

ANTHONY GORDON 👏

What an error from Alexander-Arnold 😬 pic.twitter.com/ISDCQZze9J

— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) August 27, 2023

Liverpool were then shown a red card after 27 minutes when Virgil van Dijk, the last man, kicked through Alexander Isak.

Alisson made a great stop to prevent Miguel Almiron’s powerful effort going in after 35 minutes but the writing did look to be on the wall for Liverpool.

The Newcastle winger then should have made it 2-0 54 minutes in but he put his effort wide.

Liverpool struggled to create much in the second half but Sven Botman was forced to make a big block to deny Mo Salah after 66 minutes. Almiron then hit the post 10 minutes later.

And after many wasted chances from Newcastle, Darwin Nunez came off the bench and equalised in the 80th minute.

🗣️ “RAZOR-SHARP RED!”

Darwin Nunez with a LATE equaliser!! 🔴 pic.twitter.com/AZnD4gnNwN

— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) August 27, 2023

Liverpool then scored an injury-time winner via Nunez after a through ball from Salah.

📰 Table Of Contents

1 Player ratings

Player ratings

Newcastle

GK: Nick Pope (6.5)
RB: Kieran Trippier (6.5)
CB: Fabian Schar (5)
CB: Sven Botman (7)
LB: Dan Burn (5.5)
CM: Sandro Tonalli (7)
CM: Bruno Guimaraes (6.5)
CM: Joelinton (6)
RW: Miguel Almiron (6.5)
ST: Alexandar Isak (6.5)
LW: Anthony Gordon (7.5)

Substitutes

Callum Wilson (4)
Harvey Barnes (4)
Sean Longstaff (N/A)
Elliot Anderson (N/A)
Matt Target (N/A)

Liverpool

GK: Alisson (6.5)
RB: Trent Alexander-Arnold (5)
CB: Joel Matip (5)
CB: Virgil van Dijk (0)
LB: Andy Robertson (6)
CM: Wataru Endo (6)
CM: Alexis Mac Alister (6.5)
CM: Dominik Szoboszlai (6.5)
RW: Mohamed Salah (7)
ST: Cody Gakpo (6)
LW: Luis Diaz (5)

Substitutes

Joe Gomez (5)
Harvey Elliott (4)
Diogo Jota (4)
Darwin Nunez (8)
Jarell Quansah (4)

Match reaction

Trent Alexander-Arnold gets booked for throwing the ball away.

And then immediately takes out Anthony Gordon.

He surely has to be shown a second yellow for that?

— Football Tweet ⚽ (@Football__Tweet) August 27, 2023

🤬🤬🤬 consistency. If the first isn’t given then that’s a yellow . #NEWLIV

— Alan Shearer (@alanshearer) August 27, 2023

Trent having an absolute stinker, Salah didn’t do him any favors trying to play him that ball tho

— El Jefe del los borrachos 🇲🇽 (@ModeloxDabs) August 27, 2023

Trent… haha what a fraud 🤣🤣🤣

— Haroonsballoon🎈 (@Haroons_Balloon) August 27, 2023

The low budget Maguire 😅 #NEWLIV pic.twitter.com/086NSx5KwZ

— HSC (@hscfootballl) August 27, 2023

Ruben Dias monsterclass and a Van Dijk red card on the same day, this is a beautiful day for football

— ¹⁰ (@SxrgioSZN) August 27, 2023

Hang it in the Louvre. #NUFC pic.twitter.com/0AJ0mnMS10

— Kieran Dixon (@kieraandixon) August 27, 2023

Virgil van Dijk has revived his first straight red card for Liverpool, and the second straight red card of his career.

Seeing red. 🟥 pic.twitter.com/FKK6fFM9qh

— Statman Dave (@StatmanDave) August 27, 2023

⚠️ | QUICK STAT

Liverpool’s opening 30′ v Newcastle:

• Trent Alexander-Arnold becomes the first player to commit two errors leading to a goal in the Premier League this season
• Virgil van Dijk receives his first Premier League red card since joining the club

😬#NEWLIV pic.twitter.com/LPQtmUp896

— Sofascore (@SofascoreINT) August 27, 2023