Waiting for Real Madrid for the Champions League, Liverpool ended Saturday’s appointment with a victory

Away from relevant positions in the Premier LeagueHe Liverpool managed to beat the revelation of the competition: he beat the newcastle and can prepare for the round of 16 match of Champions League in view of real Madridwithout thinking about his uneven path in the national tournament.

The continental tournament is the goal of the German coach Jurgen Kloppgiven that he is going through a bad season in the Premier League, in which he has been out of the fight for the title for weeks, as well as having been eliminated from the FA Cup.

Liverpool improved their pace against a Newcastle side which was diminished shortly after 20 minutes of play due to goalkeeper Nick Pope being sent off. Red, on the other hand, arrived when the score was already 0 – 2.

Newcastle entered that match with just one defeat, on 31 August, also against Liverpool. THE networks They are the only ones who could beat him so far in the tournament.

Liverpool began picking up a second successive win after the one against Everton, which ended a four-game winless run, with a goal from Uruguayan Darwin Núñez. The second was from Cody Gakpo, after a quick move initiated by Fabinho, who was followed by Mohamed Salah and assisted the Dutchman, who didn’t fail late on.

From behind, Newcastle lost control of the game and went uphill with their own goalkeeper being sent off. Pope misses a split ball that goes to fight outside the area and touches it with his hand: he is the last man while Salah goes on goal. undisputed red.

With the result in his favor and in control of the situation, Klopp made four substitutions, with Wednesday’s match against Real Madrid in mind. He knocked out Harvey Elliott, James Milner, Diogo Jota and Roberto Firmino and left behind Virgil Van Dijk, who played the entire game looking for better form than him.

The victory places Liverpool in eighth place in the standings, four points behind the European zone scored by Tottenham, fifth, and six behind Newcastle, who occupy fourth position, the last one leading to the Champions League.

the other parts

Saturday started with the 2-4 fall of the astonville (Watkins and Coutinho) first Arsenal (Saka, Zinchenko, Martínez -against- and Martinelli); Chelsea 0 – southampton 1 (Ward-Prowse); Everton 1 (Colemano) – leeds 0 ; wolverhampton 0 – bournemouth 1 (Tavernier).

It continued with a 1-1 draw between Nottingham (Woods) – Manchester City (forest); Brentford 1 (Janelt) – Crystal Palace 1 (Eze) e Brighton 0 – fulham 1 (Solomon). The appointment continues on Sunday with Manchester Utd – leicester AND Tottenham – West Hamat 11 and 13.30 in Argentina.