{"id":474736,"date":"2024-01-01T17:59:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T21:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474736"},"modified":"2024-01-01T17:59:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T21:59:50","slug":"liverpool-destroy-newcastle-4-2-to-remain-epl-leader","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/liverpool-destroy-newcastle-4-2-to-remain-epl-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool destroy Newcastle 4-2 to remain EPL leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool won against Newcastle 4-2 at Anfield and remained in the 1st place in the Premier League with 45 points \u2013 3 more than Aston Villa and 5 more than Manchester City, but the Sky Blues have a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>The home side controlled the match in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half but failed to score despite having a penalty, but Mohamed Salah missed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LIVERPOOL BEAT NEWCASTLE 4-2 IN THEIR FIRST MATCH OF 2024!<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re now three points ahead of second-place Aston Villa and five points ahead of Man City and Arsenal \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n2PnEUKkOD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/n2PnEUKkOD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNFC\/status\/1741941987962486984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, the Egyptian needed only 4 minutes in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half to score the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the clash after Darwin Nunez\u2019s assist. However, the Magpies tied after Alexander Isak\u2019s goal in the 54<sup>th<\/sup> minute after Anthony Gordon\u2019s assist.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds needed to wait until the 74<sup>th<\/sup> minute to take the lead again when Curtis Jones netted after Diogo Jota\u2019s assist. Four minutes later, Cody Gakpo made the home team lead by 2 goals with his goal after Salah\u2019s assist.<\/p>\n<p>However, Newcastle got back in the game when Sven Botman headed the ball into the Reds net after a corner in the 81<sup>st<\/sup> minute to make his team trail only a goal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Liverpool (7.53) 4-2 (0.70) Newcastle<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The xG Philosophy (@xGPhilosophy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xGPhilosophy\/status\/1741942138982572488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Everything was decided when Klopp\u2019s side received a penalty, and this time, Mohamed Salah converted it in the 86<sup>th<\/sup> minute to make the Reds lead again 2 goals with only minutes until the end.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No player has scored more Premier League goals than Mohamed Salah (14) so far this season. \ud83d\udecb<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LIVNEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LIVNEW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vlEJSLUkIq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vlEJSLUkIq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Squawka Live (@Squawka_Live) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka_Live\/status\/1741939669028258219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Newcastle are in 9<sup>th<\/sup> place in the Premier League with 29 points after 20 games, as that was the Magpies\u2019 5<sup>th<\/sup> defeat in their last 6 matches in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool won against Newcastle 4-2 at Anfield and remained in the 1st place in the Premier League with 45 points \u2013 3 more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":474738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16722,18576,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17887,18577,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The Reds played phenomenally during the whole game.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474740,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474736\/revisions\/474740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474736"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474736"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}