Alan Shearer

You just don't know what to expect from them.

And you changed it again, which is totally fine, obviously, because...

He went with three at the back in Paris on Wednesday in the Champions League.

Went back to a back four yesterday.

I don't know whether they had injuries or not because Bottman was on the bench and I heard him say afterwards that he couldn't have played anyway.

But yeah, changed personnel around again.

And I thought the game plan worked perfectly.

really well for about 35 or 40 minutes because we looked dangerous on the counter-attack.

Liverpool, I thought, looked poor defensively, as they have done for a while.

And Newcastle punished them for that ultimately with a very, very good goal from Anthony Gordon, his first in nearly 13 months in open play for Newcastle.

Yeah, and then after that, I mean, the brilliance of Ekotike and Wurz, I thought, particularly Ekotike.

I mean, it hurts even more because Newcastle were in for him, obviously, as you know, in the summer.

But he chose to go to Liverpool, which I get, and that's fine.

But he was the difference.

His second goal was world-class.

The way... Good old-fashioned, like, toe poke, wasn't it?

When he went down on the left and then toe poked with his right foot into the corner.

What a striker.

You don't see many tall pokes around nowadays, do you?

You don't see them around that often, but his was a brilliant finish.