Liverpool beat Newcastle 2-0 at Anfield to move 13 points clear in the Premier League. Liverpool’s Dominik Szoboszlai and Alexis Mac Allister scored to increase their lead against Arsenal at Nottingham Forest, as head coach Arne Slot watched gleefully from the sidelines due to his two-game touchline ban.
Liverpool began confidently after their triumph over defending champions Manchester City on Sunday and seized the lead just 11 minutes when Szoboszlai’s left-footed shot beat goalkeeper Nick Pope.
Without Alexander Isak, Newcastle relied on Callum Wilson, making his first Premier League start of the season, but the striker failed to score when clean through. That miss was punished by Mac Allister midway through the second half. After the FA Cup defeat against Plymouth, Liverpool feared that the fixture list could catch up with the players during this five-game run of games that began with the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park and ended with this encounter against Newcastle.
