this match
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Lined up in 433 with defenders VanDijk, Konaté, Gomez, Arnold, midfielders Hikaru Endo, Szoboszlai, Jones, and up front Salah, Darwin Núñez, Luis Diaz.
Newcastle's injured players are still in a full platoon, they played a 433 with defenders Schär, Botman, Livramento, Burn, midfielders Longstaff, Guimarães, Miley, and strikers Isak, Joelinton, and Gordon, and although there are players who are returning to the side, Newcastle are still in the position of having an injured goalkeeper. Although some players are returning, Newcastle are still in a situation where their main goalkeeper is out, and Trippier, the most important attacking point on the right side, is also injured.
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Newcastle have crashed and burned since December 8th, with 1 win and 4 defeats in 5 matches until this match, it can be said that they can't hold up the entire Christmas fast schedule due to injuries, and in this form the visitors
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Newcastle can't do anything about it, but they're at a disadvantage.
Newcastle is looking to advance position but
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Luis Diaz had the ball in the box in the 20th minute, but Botman took it down and turned it into a 12-yarder, but Salah's penalty was too high for goalkeeper Dúbravka and Newcastle escaped with a win.
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Set up in the first half with Szoboszlai a little more to the right, the central position gave way for Endo Hang to press forward, Endo has been in great form of late, releasing the ball a couple of times to find gaps in the Newcastle defense, which allowed the
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It's become a source of offense.
Newcastle in the first half at
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The high mobility and use of space under the passive and scattered, it feels like the ball to quickly pass forward to avoid the midfield organization of this section, this makes the
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Darwin Núñez also had a one-touch shot on goal, but the keeper was able to judge the path of the shot and blocked it.
Things didn't change at the start of the second half, and at the 48:00 mark
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Newcastle's backfield looked empty as Luis Diaz took the ball from the left flank, cut through the center and passed to Darwin Núñez on the right, who passed to the center, where Salah easily put in a shot.
Newcastle made a mistake by placing Joelinton on the left, Joelinton's stiffness is better suited to sweeping centrally so that he can support Guimarães, and each of the two can generate pressure going forward, but Joelinton won't be able to break through on the left, and then Newcastle loses the center of the field as well, resulting in a
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The passage could easily have been passed, and then it was reversed in the 51st minute, when Salah's cross from the right to the center of the field gave Darwin Núñez a shot that was blocked.
Newcastle made a substitution right after they fell behind, bringing on Almirón, and it looked like a change of formation, with Gordon back on the left flank, Almirón on the right, and Joelinton back in the center of the field.
Surprisingly, the tactic worked. At the 53:00 mark, Gordon suddenly accelerated down the left side of the field to break through Arnold, and then immediately threw a forward pass to Konaté, who could not possibly move out of position to defend in that state. It was a perfect shot. It was unstoppable the moment Arnold was passed.
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After that, they were still attacking Nueceso, and then in the 64th minute they made three substitutions, Darwin Núñez, Szoboszlai, and Luis Diaz were replaced by Gravenberch, Gakpo, and Jota, so Klopp might have wanted to play a more organized game.
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After the substitution, the number of players up front could be increased, and these players could run better in the positional battle, and as a result, they scored again after 10 minutes of siege. 73 minutes later, Salah came from the right side again, and he made a diagonal pass in front of him, and Jota followed it up with a cross pass on the line of the penalty box to Jones in the center of the field, and easily pushed it into an empty goal again.
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After taking the lead, they subbed out Kou Endo for the returning MacAllister.
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It opened up completely, and then at 78 Salah came over on the right and picked out the center of the field with the outside of his right foot, and Gakpo raced over the offside line and nodded the ball into the goal, which was ultimately ruled out for offside.
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take a 3-1 lead
