Liverpool’s 16-year-old wonderboy snatches 100th-minute win at Newcastle

📅 Published: August 26, 2025

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With Alexander Isak shamefully sitting at home as he continued his strike, Osula was summoned from the bench as Newcastle fought back with ten men for 45 minutes.

His goal – brilliant though it was – was not to be the defining image of the night.

Instead it belonged to the precocious Ngumoha, whose goal sparked a pitch invasion from Liverpool’s coaching staff as this new-look side earned a statement win.

For Newcastle it was defeat, but one that was drenched in sweat and honour.

With Bruno Guimaraes their brilliant talisman, they delivered a performance that suggested brighter times might be ahead if they can navigate the rest of the transfer window and somehow coax Isak back into the side.

The reaction of the home fans at the end – a standing ovation – told its own story on a night when they came so close to hauling back one of the best teams in Europe.

Youngest scorers in Premier League history James Vaughan (16 years, 270 days) James Milner (16 years, 356 days) Wayne Rooney (16 years 360 days) Rio Ngumhoma (16 years, 361 days) Everything about Newcastle was relentless for that electric first half an hour, from a cacophonous crowd probably relieved to get a break from all the summer transfer doom scrolling to a team that pressed with unflinching intensity.

The tone was set before kick off with a succinct tifo from the Wor Flags fan collective that announced “Nothing is achieved alone” in a nod to their absent striker.

While some might have yearned for a more direct message to Isak, the message of unity in the face of adversity has galvanised Eddie Howe’s group all summer.

What a start they made.

Slot’s champions looked genuinely rattled as Newcastle swarmed into them from the off, the midfield pistons pumping as they had in the Carabao Cup at Wembley back in March.

But what they didn’t have this time, amid the black and white whir, was a focal point up front to profit from the endeavour of Sandro Tonali or the effervescence of Guimaraes.

Howe claimed Newcastle could find other ways of scoring in the absence of Isak but even before his red card, Anthony Gordon in the specialist striker role didn’t have the hallmarks of a particularly successful route.

He nodded a presentable opportunity over but too often he took the wrong option – until his cardinal sin got him a red card in first-half injury time.

Was it a rush of blood or a reflection of Tyneside torment that their good work had been undone by Ryan Gravenberch’s precise drive that deflected past Nick Pope?