At the end of the game, Klopp excitedly rushed into the field and hugged the players one by one, and carefully inquired about Jota's injury.
This is the 35th round of the Premier League, and with three rounds left in the league, the battle for the top spot between Liverpool and Manchester City will intensify. Fortunately, in the away game against Newcastle United, Liverpool took all 3 points, refused to lose points, and in the case of the first round, they pressed Manchester City and temporarily reached the top of the Premier League table.
In this game, Salah, Thiago, Arnold and other big names all sat on the bench, mane, Jota, Dias to form the "new Reds trident".
At the beginning of the game, Liverpool took the lead in attacking, which is also their consistent style, more than 7 minutes, Jota took the ball into the box, but was destroyed by the defenders, at this time Liverpool already had a number of players wrapped up in the box, but Keita followed up and chose to shoot himself, the ball flew out of the upright and flew out of the bottom line.
After the opening ten minutes of "indiscriminate bombardment", Liverpool slowed down and began to fall backwards in the backfield, waiting for opportunities to attack. Liverpool's attack was mainly concentrated on two flanks, but Newcastle United's defensive ability was still good, did not give Liverpool the opportunity to attack the goal, and Milner and Gomez were not too good in the quality of crosses from both flanks.
In the 19th minute of the game, Milner successfully made a steal in midfield, and Jota and Keita's short pass inside the penalty area cooperated, and Keita swung past the goalkeeper and calmly pushed the goal.
The trailing Newcastle United did not have much improvement on the offensive end, but Liverpool became more and more courageous, and in the 34th minute of the game, Liverpool quickly counterattacked, Dias stepped on the hot wheel, quickly advanced into the opponent's penalty area, and then came a cross, but Mane's last shot was weak and was confiscated by the goalkeeper. In the 41st minute, henderson rubbed the front of the penalty area into the box, jota grabbed the nodding ball and threw the ball at the goal, and was single-handedly turned aside by the goalkeeper to save the bottom line.
If Newcastle United defended with all their might in the first half and then counterattacked, in the second half they took the initiative and pressed forward to try to reverse the situation of falling behind by one goal. Under the attack of Newcastle United, Liverpool began to commit frequent fouls in defence. But Newcastle United pose little of a threat to Liverpool in front of goal. In the 50th minute, Gomez pulled down his opponent in defense and received a yellow card.
In the second half, Jota was active on both the left and right flanks, but was slow to open the opponent's door. In the 58th minute of the game, Liverpool broke the ball in midfield, Jota was ready to grab the point in the penalty area, at this time the goalkeeper took the lead and destroyed the ball; in the 62nd minute of the game, Liverpool organized an attack on the right side, mane and Gomez's connection tore open Newcastle United's rib defense, but Mane's final push deflected off the upright, missing the opportunity to extend the score.
Liverpool had more offensive opportunities in the second half than in the first half, but perhaps it was a bit of bad luck, but it was also a good result to win 1-0 away to Newcastle United and take all three points.
Liverpool can't fight too hard this time, because the next game they have to face Villarreal away in the Champions League, and a small win and 3 points is the best choice.