Last season's champions host the runners-up at Anfield in an early-season Premier League title showdown, both seeking to maintain perfect starts. Liverpool have outscored Arsenal but defensive form currently favors the Gunners. Liverpool beat Newcastle with a 100th-minute winner after Dominik Szoboszlai's feint freed Rio Ngumoha to score, extending Liverpool's flawless start. Liverpool require one goal to reach 37 consecutive top-flight matches with a goal and have scored in 39 of 40 Premier League fixtures under Arne Slot. Defensive indiscipline has been linked to Ryan Gravenberch and Alexis Mac Allister not starting together; Mac Allister is back in training while Jeremie Frimpong is sidelined with a hamstring injury.
From flair and ferocity to a teenage sensation netting a last-gasp winner, Liverpool's Premier League clash with Newcastle at St. James' Park on Monday night delivered on all expectations, leaving the Magpies dejected when the final whistle blew. Even after former Everton player Anthony Gordon was sent off for a dangerous challenge on Virgil van Dijk, Newcastle looked more like the side reduced to 10 as they clawed back from 2-0 down to level the scores and seemed poised for a near-impossible winner.
Yet a 2008-born prodigy had other plans: in the 100th minute, Dominik Szoboszlai cleverly feinted a pass from Mohamed Salah into the box, allowing the unmarked Rio Ngumoha to seal a dramatic winner and extend Liverpool's flawless start to the season. Still, Arne Slot's side face significant defensive work, as such vulnerabilities have left them behind both Arsenal and Tottenham in the early Premier League table. Offensively, however, history is within reach.
Liverpool's defensive indiscipline can be partially attributed to Ryan Gravenberch and Alexis Mac Allister not starting a game together yet this season, but the latter is back in training after missing the Newcastle clash and is on track to be available. As a result, the Reds' only absentee for the visit of the Gunners is new signing Jeremie Frimpong (hamstring); Szoboszlai held his own as a makeshift right-back against
Collection
[
|
...
]