8 mins Allan Saint-Maximin made progress down the United left, heading infield to reach the edge of the Liverpool box before playing a reverse pass to the overlapping Ryan Fraser.

His cross was poorly cleared by Thiago, falling to Jonjo Shelvey who had time to take two touches before sending wonderful curling right-footer from 25 yards past a static Alisson at the Kop End.

The goalscorer ran the length of the field to share his goggles celebration with the jubilant hordes behind the opposite goal. 1-0

21 mins The aftermath of Andrew Robertson's cleared corner from the left saw Fabian Schar and Isaac Hayden both down in their own six yard area after being sandwiched between Jamaal Lascelles and Ibrahima Konate.

Hayden stayed down clutching his head but referee Dean allowed play to continue and when Martin Dubravka saved Jota's header, the Portuguese striker lashed in the rebound from point-blank range. There was no VAR review of the incident. 1-1

25 mins Joelinton ran into trouble in his own half, hastily unloading the ball to Shelvey who was nearby in centre field. He in turn played a pass back towards Schar on the edge of his own box, only for it to bypass the defender and fall nicely for Sadio Mane.

He stayed on his feet inside the area as Schar made an unsuccessful attempt to swipe the ball back, poking a low shot goalward from 12 yards as he fell. Dubravka blocked that effort with but the rebound reached Mo Salah, who tucked in the rebound with a first-time effort. 1-2

Half time: Reds 2 Magpies 1

87 mins A short free-kick was played to Trent Alexander-Arnold, whose his rising thunderbolt from 25 yards was too powerful for Dubravka's fingertips as it sailed into the top corner. 1-3

Full time: Reds 3 Magpies 1

Eddie Howe said:

"I couldn't believe what I was seeing... There is a lot of talk at the moment about head injuries and I felt that was a wrong decision. It's had a huge bearing on the game. We had the lead. It feels unjust and I feel it was doubly hard on our players.

"I think [the referee Mike Dean] said to me he felt Isaac had held his back. For me, he held his head. He was dazed for four or five minutes. It's a dangerous moment where we have to think about the player's safety. I don't think you want to see games decided when players are out of the game.

"I feel like we were really harshly treated today. It follows a similar pattern of games we've had where the decisions have gone against us for whatever reason.

"My feeling is the first goal and the decision for that had the key bearing on the result today and that's the one that really aggrieves me tonight.

"I think you can see with the fact he had treatment to the side of the pitch, that was where I made the comment from. You could see he was treated, then taken to the side and he still didn't look 100 per cent himself.

"I've not spoken to Isaac after the game to see if there's any lasting damage from the challenge, but he didn't look in a good place. He immediately held his head, there was no acting. He was down and he couldn't continue and we paid the price for it.

"The players really gave everything to the game physically. You could see that, Liverpool move the ball very fast and we had to work very hard to contain them, but I felt the players delivered that very well. We scored a great goal on the counter-attack, Maxi was a threat in isolated moments in the game when we managed to feed him with the ball.

"I'm probably disappointed with the second half on the ball. I felt we could have shown a bit more composure to open them up in those moments when we were in transitions but in terms of what the players gave and their attitude and commitment to it, I thought we had a mentality about us today that we had against Leicester where we were right in the game until the end.

"I felt at any moment, we could get something today."

On Jamal Lewis:

It looks bad – it looks like a hamstring problem. It’s a surprise with Jamal, because he’s obviously so athletic. He’s been excellent in terms of his athletic work for us.

"Obviously, it was damaging to lose a sub so early in the match. I thought Matt Ritchie came on and was fantastic in his place. Certainly, it’s not the time of year for us to lose players.

"Fingers crossed, it's only Jamal that will probably go into the Christmas period now in any doubt, but we need to check on a few others that were carrying things."

Jurgen Klopp said:

"We used more Bournemouth than Newcastle to analyse the game. We expected similar things. They made life hard for us to be honest. We rushed in moments, it was not like we had 15 or 16 clear-cut chances but we scored really good goals."

On the first goal:

"I didn't see it back. Both got up later. I'm not saying it's like this situation, but really quite frequently players go down in the box when they lose a challenge, but I don't know, I couldn't see it. The assistant on my side told me it was all good, that two players on the same team came together."

About the third goal:

"It was a stunner, unbelievable. His shooting technique is absolutely different level. In games like this, staying positive, staying offensive-minded in moments like this, just take the chance. Thank God Mike Dean is good on his legs so he could get out of the way!"