Liverpool Extend Lead with Newcastle Win

With a 2-0 victory over Newcastle at Anfield, Liverpool moved 13 points clear at the top and made yet another significant step towards the Premier League championship.

Goals from Dominik Szoboszlai and Alexis Mac Allister stretched Liverpool’s advantage as head coach Arne Slot watched on triumphantly from the stands owing to his two-game touchline ban. Arsenal held closest rivals to a 0-0 draw against Nottingham Forest.

Inspired by their defeat to reigning champions Manchester City on Sunday, Liverpool started with assurance and grabbed the lead inside 11 minutes when Szoboszlai’s left-footed strike somehow slipped into the net beyond Nick Pope’s fingertips.

Newcastle was depending on Callum Wilson, making his first Premier League start of the season, but the striker could not locate the equaliser when clean through without injured Alexander Isak. That miss midway through the second half, Mac Allister punished. Following the FA Cup elimination against Plymouth, Liverpool’s anxiety for this five-game run of events starting with the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park and concluding with this encounter against Newcastle was that the fixture list could catch up with the players.