ANewcastle 2-3 Liverpool: Rio Ngumoha scores winner on Premier League debut to beat 10-man Magpies
Report and free match highlights as Rio Ngumoha scored late on to secure a win for Liverpool; Alexander Isak’s future had dominated the pre-match build-up; the Magpies had come from 2-0 down with 10 men after Anthony Gordon’s red card
By Charlotte Marsh, Senior football
journalist
Sixteen-year-old Rio Ngumoha scored on his Premier League debut to hand Liverpool a 3-2 win against 10-man Newcastle on Monday Night Football after the Magpies thought they had come from 2-0 down to secure a draw.
Just four days before his 17th birthday, Ngumoha was thrown on by Arne Slot in the 96th minute as the Reds searched for a winner.
The teenager stole the show for Liverpool in pre-season – scoring three goals with two assists – and continued his form as he swept a finish into the far corner four minutes later for his first Premier League goal.
“I am not talking about him playing ever week but he has shown himself in a big moment, a high-pressure moment, composure at such a delicate stage of the game… he has got to be involved,” Sky Sports’ Jamie Carragher said after the game.
It capped off a raucous, chaotic game that had been dominated by the future of Alexander Isak beforehand after Liverpool had made a £110m bid for the striker earlier this summer. Isak has not trained with his team-mates since pre-season as he looks to orchestrate a move away before next Monday’s deadline.
