Fabio Carvalho scored a last-gasp winner to help Liverpool produce one of the narrow football scores of the weekend in the Premier League. Alexander Isak opened the scoring for the visitors in the 38th minute before Roberto Firmino scored a well-taken goal in the 61st minute. It looked like both teams would share the points before Carvalho scored the winner in the eighth minute of stoppage time.
Managers Reaction
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp: “When we scored after 90-plus-eight minutes, it’s the perfect response to that, to be honest. I’m really happy about that, but nothing else to say. It was the perfect moment to win this game because it was a difficult game, very passionate, aggressive defending. It’s difficult to pick up the rhythm from a game where everything clicked immediately and you find yourself in situations where it isn’t clicking immediately. I told the boys at half-time even before we were 1-0 down, we looked a bit desperate already, we didn’t play the extra pass. When we did that, we were really dangerous, so we had to force ourselves to keep calm a little bit more and to keep going.”
Newcastle boss Eddie Howe: “It’s a Premier League game, there’s so much at stake. We had players who were fatigued, we had one day less to recover than Liverpool, and we’ve given everything to every game we’ve had so far. There was no gamesmanship from our perspective, it was just tired bodies. In the second half we wanted to slow the game down, they wanted to quicken it up, so it was a natural frustration against two polar-opposite needs. As I sat here I have no idea [why two minutes extra were played]. It seemed the final whistle would never come but we needed to defend the final situation better than we did. It is a cruel game.”
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