Footie - sing when you're winning!

[Slinger]

My heart can't take this. Two goals up, Newcastle down to 10 men, and we were playing shite. Newcastle pulled the game back to 2 - 2 and were having the best of it by far. Enter Rio Ngumoha, a 16-year-old, making his league debut. Even if you hadn't already heard, you'd know who scored the winner for Liverpool, in the tenth out of eleven minutes of injury time. Cool as the proverbial cucumber, the boy stroked it home from 12 yards. BOOM (to quote Jürgen Klopp) Newcastle 2 - Liverpool 3.

I've watched Rio play in the junior teams and have been following his progress keenly, and trust me when I tell you, he has some future in front of him if he's managed properly. The only thing against him is, perhaps, his height, being only 5' 7", but there again, Ian Callaghan, Sammy Lee, and Steve McMahon were all that height, and they had pretty decent careers.

The crowd were singing his name at the end, as the team paraded around, applauding the travelling supporters, and our Manager, Arne Slot, grabbed him, and you could see him saying something like "Go on, it's your moment," ...and then he gave him a great big shove forward, towards the fans as he applauded them, and they applauded him, and sung his name.

Moments like that only come along once or twice in a career, and tonight will stay with him throughout his whole career.

His name is Rio, and he bangs 'em in for fun...

https://www.skysports.com/football/...ool-rio-ngumoha-hits-stunning-winner-for-reds

 

[savvypaul]

My heart can't take this. Two goals up, Newcastle down to 10 men, and we were playing shite. Newcastle pulled the game back to 2 - 2 and were having the best of it by far. Enter Rio Ngumoha, a 16-year-old, making his league debut. Even if you hadn't already heard, you'd know who scored the winner for Liverpool, in the tenth out of eleven minutes of injury time. Cool as the proverbial cucumber, the boy stroked it home from 12 yards. BOOM (to quote Jürgen Klopp) Newcastle 2 - Liverpool 3.

I've watched Rio play in the junior teams and have been following his progress keenly, and trust me when I tell you, he has some future in front of him if he's managed properly. The only thing against him is, perhaps, his height, being only 5' 7", but there again, Ian Callaghan, Sammy Lee, and Steve McMahon were all that height, and they had pretty decent careers.

The crowd were singing his name at the end, as the team paraded around, applauding the travelling supporters, and our Manager, Arne Slot, grabbed him, and you could see him saying something like "Go on, it's your moment," ...and then he gave him a great big shove forward, towards the fans as he applauded them, and they applauded him, and sung his name.

Moments like that only come along once or twice in a career, and tonight will stay with him throughout his whole career.

His name is Rio, and he bangs 'em in for fun...

https://www.skysports.com/football/...ool-rio-ngumoha-hits-stunning-winner-for-reds

Great match to watch, especially as a Sunderland fan...

 

[Bencat]

Had to ween myself off the defibrillator after the Liverpool game . Newcastle fans seem of the opinion we were lucky . I tend to agree with Slot no real football was played for most of this game with just getting the keeper to take free kicks . It worked twice and so the ten free level . Then Liverpool played little bit of football with proper passing and everything and Rio kept his control and finished the move off . Virgil was superb as was Sobozlai and Ryan . Of Others had not parts and some looked she'll shocked by the physical assault they were getting . Referee was true to his form , weak a homer and poor judgement . I think most in the stadium knew Gordon's tackle was a red card so why did he need VAR to point it out to him ,and why did I he need to see it back so many times ? Despite how according to pundits desperate Liverpool look we have won both games last year at Newcastle we only managed a draw and still won the league . Arsenal next and I am expecting that to be another tasty match of we can come out of that with another win then things will be looking really bright . Term applied to both Manchester clubs is that real champions win even when they are not playing well does not seem to be applied to Liverpool .

 

[CN2112]

I was worried about the Newcastle game with their pace up front after the Community Shield and Bournmouth games. As it turned out Newcastle provided a different kind of threat especially with ten men. No one can deny that the footballing side won. I thought it was all over at 0-2 against ten men but Newcatles direct approach caused problems. Brought back memories of the 88 cup final against Wimbelton. Fairly confident about the Arsenal game now it looks like they will be without two of their main men.

 

[Slinger]

Newcastle v Liverpool. The ball was actually in play for just 40.8% of the actual playing time, which is the lowest in a Premier League match since February 2010 (Stoke 3-0 Blackburn). That's including 11 minutes of second-half stoppage time, which followed six minutes added onto the end of the first. Time-wasting much?

 

[Slinger]

GRIMSBY

 

[Antonio]

What a game that was, Grimsby 2-0 up, a third disallowed, although a couple of pundits saying it should have been allowed, game over. United of course pressurised the Grimsby defence for the last 20 minutes, finally equalising late in the game.

13 penalties taken by each team, Grimsby scoring 12 and United 11, the game that had everything.