After martin dubravka was punished for a foul on diogo jota, alan shearer slammed the decision to give liverpool a second penalty against newcastle united.
Alexis mac allister threaded the portugal international through, but despite a free goal at his disposal, he fell down under the challenge. mohamed salah stepped up to fire liverpool into a two-goal lead.
After luis diaz was knocked down by sven botman, the egyptian apologised for his earlier miss. “what a great dive that is,” the magpies record goalscorer tweeted with three rolling on the floor laughing emojis. Ian wright, his match of the day colleague, tweeted, “would rather go down for a penalty than put the ball in a empty net!” Shearer wasn’t done there when he retweeted wright’s post, saying, “f****** embarrassing.
” Darwin nunez missed a number of chances in the match against newcastle united, but the reds dominated. Luis diaz thought he had put jurgen klopp’s side in front, but nunez was dismissed offside. Salah was then shot in the face in the box, but dubravka knew the right way, with trent alexander-arnold blazing over the rebound.
Despite their domination, the reds were nothing like sailing on a smooth track. Salah (2), curtis jones, and cody gakpo were all on target, but alexander isak equalized with the magpies’ first attempt before sven botman reduced the deficit to 3-2 with nine minutes remaining, before salah doubled his score for the evening from the spot.
