Newcastle vs Liverpool: Nick Pope sent off as Darwin Núñez and Cody Gakpo seal win

Liverpool’s season is alive again. Newcastle United’s now teeters on the brink. How quickly football turns. Only six points separated the two teams by the time Anthony Taylor ended a dramatic evening in the North East, and Liverpool have a game in hand.

Newcastle lost a home game for the first time this season, lost a Premier League match for the first time since August, also against Liverpool, and perhaps, more significantly, lost their goalkeeper, Nick Pope, for next Sunday’s Carabao Cup final against Manchester United. He was dismissed for handling the ball way outside of his penalty area.

The sense of loss was tangible. Newcastle are limping, both physically and mentally, to their first cup final at Wembley in almost a quarter of a