Another late Liverpool win, this time against Newcastle!

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1:39Ryan Hunn: Nothing will make you feel older than seeing a goalscorer born in 2008.

1:46Ryan Hunn: Hi everyone, welcome to a bonus stadio recording on Tuesday after Liverpool's last gasp win over Newcastle United at St James' Park. In a game that threatened to disappoint based on I think everyone's extremely high chaotic expectations but actually delivered in the end. Anyway, Moosa, how are you? Still gasping after that game. wow wow we got listen we got all the vitamins we got goals and red cards we did get goals and red cards um we hope everyone's staying safe and well we thought that uh newcastle liverpool would serve up something so we thought that we'd definitely have to do a little bonus podcast if you haven't listened to monday's show we talked about spurs's win at manchester city a lot of premier league stuff uh the return of the bundesliga and seriat and some other bits as well and if you want to join our Patreon if you want to come and join us on the Stadio Patreon patreon.com forward slash stadio and you can also if you want to join the Stadio Social Club which gets you access to the Stadio Discord server which was popping off the live match chat last night it was very fun indeed but I want to shout out a comment on the Discord sorry a comment on Patreon after yesterday's episode from Beastie by Nature who said when you start to think something's wrong when there was no, there's only one place to begin.

3:11Ryan Hunn: When Elversberg literally secured a 2-1 win over Geiselstatt. Got you there. They've got you there. Listen, there was a lot to get through. And also, you know, you've got to keep them on the toes. That's true. That's very true. Anyway, today, yeah, we're going to talk about Liverpool. Newcastle, Liverpool. Liverpool. Newcastle, Liverpool. Yes. I was going to say Liverpool getting out of there with a win. Yes. Let's go there.

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5:00Ryan Hunn: Obviously no Alexander Izak for Newcastle on the team sheet. No, but not really, but they're everywhere. Yeah, exactly. He was not there, but he was everywhere. Anyway, let's start at the top. Yes. Anthony Gordon leading the line for Newcastle with Anthony Alanga on the right-hand side, Harvey Barnes on the left. And while unorthodox, not ineffective. Working very well, actually, very well. so let's actually even go on this so I think we have to mention another character in this and I don't like to be too critical of referees Simon Hooper wearing the ref cam which gave a lot of people great joy throughout not a great lover of it but a couple of things you saw that were quite interesting in the ref cam seeing players negotiating for just like bring down the tempo of the game or like just getting a handle on it and there was one moment it wasn't on the ref cam but Van Dijk talking to Hooper at a certain point I think half of the first half going look both teams are too aggy.

5:56Like there was like a committee when he went to Canati and another player going, guys, like everyone needs to calm down because actually, and I don't like to be too critical of referees, but very early on, Tonali and then I think, Tonali and Joe Linton, I can't remember which order, went in very high within the first four minutes on Vietz.

6:15Ryan Hunn: And it seemed to quiet him down actually. But they didn't get a handle on that when they didn't. And Vietz actually, I think battled quite well. I don't think he was in the flow of it, but he battled. He was quiet, but he wasn't invisible. He was occupied. He was occupied. Look, each time I was looking at this and thinking, this is a good example of the intensity of this game. He was being marked, and this sounds like a very hipster thing to say, so I'll explain. He was kind of being marked in like three dimensions. So normally when you get the ball to feet, you're only going after your shins, but there was a bit in the game where the ball comes to him, I think it's first half.

6:53The ball bounces up and he was sandwiched. He was like, okay, well, I'll wait for the ball to drop then take it. But Tenali like leans over his shoulder and nods it away. And he's like, I'm not even like, I'm not even safe when the ball is dropping. Like they clamped him so effectively. He escaped now and again, but you see that he doesn't really have the combinations. He doesn't have the trusted, like Frimpong was there. Eketika, he's got a good understanding, but he doesn't really have the chemistry. He doesn't have the, what's the word, the automatic, just chemistry with certain players where he can extract himself.

7:24And he was doing a lot of work defensively, like he was chasing all of that. So he got bogged down in that. But in terms of Newcastle not being penalised, they didn't have the yellow cards, it really cost them. Because if you look at the Gordon Red card, what's interesting is the lead up to it, where you have, I think, a bad foul by another Newcastle player. I think it might have been Tonali. And then when he gets the red, he's pressing Kanati, then Alisson. And then the last guy that he gets is actually van dyke but by then he's built up such a head of steam and he's so like the game is so charged that you were like in that thing where you know you have like a all the dry kindling left around in the forest and one spark sets it all off it was like that it was like if it wasn't gordon i felt like it was going to be someone else i thought the

8:09Ryan Hunn: response from van dyke was really interesting and and also from the lot of the liverpool players none of them really went off about it van dyke just kind of sat there and pulled his sock down and was just like, man, what are you doing? I think Van Dijk deserves a lot of credit here because he could have escalated that and the game could have got out of control after that. But I think the fact that he handled it so calmly... It made them hesitant, yeah. Yeah, and I actually think that even though the crowd were obviously unhappy, Anthony Gordon and all the players kind of knew. Yes. Honestly, it's so interesting because we've discussed...

8:46Look, we've been talking about this game for a couple of minutes now. and we haven't talked about the football. And I think that is not a reflection on Arsenal.

8:53Ryan Hunn: I didn't think it was a great game of football in terms of the football thing. Yeah, I think it was obviously going to be such an emotionally charged game because of all the Ezekiel stuff anyway. And these two... And Eketike as well. Yeah, and Eketike, which I think is wild. It was like I was saying in the Stadio Social Club Discord, it was like when I went to the Emirates Cup in 2013 and Arsenal fans were booing Gonzalo Higuain when he came on for Napoli. Just because he didn't sign. Yeah. You know, it's so funny. I was thinking about this. Is it one of the few games in the Premier League history where, or in football history, where the teenagers have actually calmed the match down?

9:27Ryan Hunn: Yeah. Like the younger players, actually. It was like, oh, this is not a game for young heads. Actually, yeah. The young heads. Sustachies coming on being like, are you losing your mind now? It's not Facebook. What are you doing? Sharing weird memes, conspiratorial memes. It's like, you don't even live in that country. Why do you care about their immigration policies? It's such a problem.

9:49But all of this to say, the game itself, this is all the context. No, I think it is. I think the football wasn't amazing.

10:00Ryan Hunn: The Eko TK. It was fun, I think, in terms of, it was fun to watch as a neutral. It would have drove me mad as a fan. Can I say as well, Eko TK gave me two of my favourite moments in this game. Before we get back, just as a footnote, obviously his goal was fantastic, but the thing I loved as well, almost equally, was he misplaces a pass, I think, out on the left touchline, and the cheer that goes up from that is louder than you'll hear from most goals. I was like, this is beautiful. I mean, you could say that even when Newcastle had quote-unquote control of the game, it never felt like they had full control of the game because it was kind of like someone carrying a hot pot out of the oven and trying to get it on the table as quick as possible.

10:47Ryan Hunn: Oh my God, perfect analogy. Technically, they've got it under control. They want to get rid of this as quick as possible. Example of the game that summed up how intense it was, and Newcastle's intensity was incredible. I think Tonali was hounding Kanata into mistakes all over. Jones was struggling to escape certain traps, but there was a bit that really summed up for me when you have Liverpool trying to launch a counter-attack and Ekotika gets the ball with his back to the Newcastle goal. and Dan Byrne steps up and is like well into the centre circle and is on his back pinning him. And this is like, Dan Byrne is not like lightning quick, right?

11:22He's not slow, but he's not lightning quick. And to have him pressing there, I was like, that's a centre back. That is absolutely wild in terms of Newcastle, like, you know, jumping out. Jumping out is often criticised from centre backs, but there it was really effective. And that was just symptomatic of the entire game. Like they just couldn't get room. one of the things that Viet struggled with actually is that the number 10 is just meant to have more space than that and found himself doing a huge amount of defensive work a huge, almost like a pedry amount of defensive work

11:53Ryan Hunn: I think in terms of the who kind of shone for Liverpool in an attacking sense, right you obviously had Gatpo who provided two assists but it was the people who didn't have a huge amount of the ball no, he didn't but it was the people who maximised the little that they had, right? Gravenberg coming in, I think, looked good again in the midfield. I still think Liverpool need... We'll talk about what Liverpool need in a little bit. And also, yeah, you mentioned Eke TK just being decisive. The biggest credit I can give Newcastle was that they did make it super difficult for Liverpool. And even going down to 10 men, right?

12:27I couldn't tell they had... Put it this way, I couldn't tell where the man was missing. Where the player was missing, sorry. When you watch Newcastle down to 10, because they were so intense they were moving the ball around there was not a substantial difference between them with 11 and then with 10 so that was a preview of today's episode

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