Newcastle-Liverpool 0:1

Jürgen Klopp likes nothing about the Premier League less than the 6:30 p.m. The victory that Liverpool celebrated on matchday 35 was all the more valuable: The quadruple aspirant survived the unpleasant guest performance in Newcastle - Klopp's rotation risk with 1-0.

• Keitas Cooler Completion - Newcastle protests in vain
• Liverpool negligent after the break - Mané with yellow well served

The coach, which has now been bound by 2026 by 2026, took over the 2-0 against Villarreal in the Champions League semi-final first leg, including Salah, Thiago and Alexander-Arnold. It was not noticeable to the game of the Reds. In an entertaining, sometimes heated first half, they presented themselves dangerous and stable at the back.

Keitas Cooler Completion - Newcastle protests in vain

Keita finally got the deserved lead after playing a double pass with Diogo Jota and keeping keeper Dubravka around (19th). Because Milner had previously conquered the ball rustic, but probably still fairly, the hosts protested in vain.

The magpies, which had recently won four times in a row (three times without conceding a goal) and no longer float in the risk of relegation, became more and more passive after a bold initial phase and were lucky to go into the second round with a 0: 1. Mané at a counterattack (34th), Diogo Jota by head (41.) and Milner after a corner (42nd) missed other goals.

Liverpool negligent after the break - Mané with yellow well served

After the change of sides, the home side ran a little more aggressively again, but rarely got Liverpool's offensive under control. When Keita dropped to the right (63.) from the best location, it was slowly negligent - Newcastle remained in the game, but in the front harmless.

Klopp brought Salah and Fabinho and, in addition to captain Henderson, also took Mané down (69.), who had been well served with yellow a minute earlier: the attacker had come too late against Dubravka and had hit the goalkeeper full of thighs. In the meantime, Diogo Jota stayed lucky until the end (73./79.), Luis Diaz also no longer passed Dubravka (84th).

It remained without consequences: Because Newcastle could no longer get a clear chance of scoring in 90 minutes plus stoppage time, the Reds celebrated a well-deserved but much too scarce 1-0 away win, which leads them over in the table again in front of Manchester City (in the evening in Leeds). Klopp's team has won 40 out of 42 possible points in the last 14 league games.