Liverpool extend all-time Premier League record and suffer club worst in Newcastle draw

Liverpool extended an all-time grounds of the bully benignant and acceptable a caller nine grounds of the atrocious benignant successful their frenetic 2-2 Premier League gully with Newcastle United astatine St James' Park.

After some sets of players, unit and supporters took portion successful a heart-warming tribute to the iconic Kevin Keegan, Matthias Jaissle was connected people to get 1 implicit chap managerial debutant Andoni Iraola wrong the opening fewer moments.

The hosts opened their relationship for the Premier League play acknowledgment to a rapid-fire counter-attack, which saw Anthony Elanga pain Milos Kerkez for gait and prime retired the acold country successful beforehand of the distant end.

The erstwhile Manchester United man's maiden extremity of the run came aft conscionable 5 minutes, making his onslaught the earliest that Liverpool person ever conceded successful the opening gameweek of a Premier League season.

History instantly favoured the men successful achromatic and achromatic pursuing Elanga's goal, arsenic coming into Sunday's game, Liverpool were winless successful 18 Premier League distant matches erstwhile falling 1-0 down, past earning a triumph successful specified circumstances against Crystal Palace successful December 2023.

Liverpool's unrivalled Premier League streak extended successful Newcastle draw

Iraola's men came retired warring successful the 2nd half, though, and their archetypal extremity of the Premier League play arrived from the footwear of Cody Gakpo, who finished with aplomb from 20 yards.

However, Joe Willock's exceptional adjacent power and curling decorativeness restored Newcastle's advantage, and the Magpies were seconds distant from ending an appalling 19-game winless tally against Liverpool successful the Premier League.

The time ended successful despair for Jaissle and co, though, arsenic Lewis Hall's precocious foul connected Victor Munoz wrong the country presented Dominik Szoboszlai with the accidental to bargain a constituent from the punishment spot - a accidental helium did not walk up.

The Hungarian's venomous spot footwear ensured that Liverpool would debar decision connected matchday 1 for the 14th play successful a row, the longest progressive streak of immoderate Premier League nine and 1 that the Reds person present extended.

The Merseyside giants person not mislaid an opening gameweek top-flight lucifer since the 2012-13 season, erstwhile they were stunned 3-0 by West Bromwich Albion astatine The Hawthorns.

Andoni Iraola reacts to Alexander Isak Newcastle reception

While Szoboszlai was Liverpool's saviour, Alexander Isak's instrumentality to St James' Park did not spell to program for the erstwhile Newcastle striker, who was met with an highly frosty reception from his erstwhile fanbase.

Isak missed 2 large chances, won conscionable 2 of his six crushed duels and failed to implicit a azygous dribble from 3 attempts, but Iraola played down the absorption to his Magpies comeback.

"I deliberation helium expected a small spot the atmosphere, I don't deliberation [it] has been a large astonishment for him," Iraola said astatine his post-game property conference. "I deliberation helium has tried everything, has fixed america bully positions connected the ball.

"[He] astir apt has had a mates of situations to decorativeness wrong the box, but astir apt not the clearest that helium wanted oregon we wanted, but I worth that. He has continued pushing connected successful the game, fighting, and I deliberation it's a bully measurement for Alex for being the archetypal game."

Liverpool are adjacent successful Premier League enactment against Nottingham Forest adjacent Saturday lunchtime, anterior to which Iraola's broadside larn their Champions League league-phase opponents successful Thursday's draw.