Newcastle manager Eddie Howe says that England forward Anthony Gordon went in "full-blooded" but there was no "intent" when he was sent off for his challenge on Virgil van Dijk in their 3-2 loss to Liverpool at St James' Park.

The sending off meant Newcastle had to play a large portion of the game with 10 men against last year's Premier League winners.

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There have been 17 red cards in Premier League games between Newcastle and Liverpool, with only Everton v Liverpool (25) and Liverpool v Man Utd (18) seeing more.

Jamie Carragher
Former Liverpool defender on Sky Sports

I think what we have seen tonight is probably one of the worst performances from a winning team, and one of the best from the losing team.

Liverpool won't care right now, they'll be absolutely ecstatic [with the win] but Eddie Howe's men tonight were absolutely outstanding.

I actually fear what the score would have been if it was 11 v 11. To put in that performance with 10 men, I think Liverpool would have won the game, they were far better in every aspect.

Ciaran Kelly
Football reporter

Newcastle had just suffered a painful defeat right at the death - only you would not have known it. Not by the standing ovation the Geordies afforded their exhausted side at full-time.

Newcastle had run the champions mighty close - and the home support recognised that.

After going 2-0 down and with Gordon dismissed, it had previously felt a long way back for the 10 men. The away end even felt emboldened enough to chant about Isak as they asked Newcastle to "hand him over".

Yet the spirited hosts rallied.

Guimaraes' header reignited the stadium as the captain waved his arms up and down and whipped up the fans after pulling a goal back.

Suddenly it felt like Newcastle were playing with a man advantage at a raucous St James' Park as they swarmed Liverpool and made them retreat.

It has got to the stage where Gordon, a winger by trade, has been picked ahead of the Dane in attack. Yet Osula thought he had snatched a point for his side - only for Ngumoha to score a last-gasp winner.

It was a hammer blow for Newcastle, who will somehow have to regroup and lift themselves for a trip to Leeds United on Saturday - and Howe needs a breakthrough in his search for a striker.

Jamie Carragher
Former Liverpool defender on Sky Sports

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The manager is more important than [Alexander] Isak. What he [Eddie Howe] has done at that football club, he is a special, special manager and I'm not just talking about for Newcastle but in the Premier League.

The job he has done from where they were to where they are now, I'm not saying they are going to lose their manager but if we're talking about either the player or manager going, he is way more important than Isak.

Ciaran Kelly
Football reporter

It was just a few months ago that Alexander Isak wrote himself into club folklore by scoring against Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final to help end the club's 70-year wait for a major domestic trophy.

Yet it was Liverpool's fans who were singing about Isak this time around as the away end repeatedly urged Newcastle to "hand him over".

Isak was conspicuous by his absence once again, as the wantaway Swede - for whom Liverpool have had a £110m offer rejected - continues to train away from the rest of his Newcastle team-mates. Inevitably, this saga added a new dimension to the game.

It certainly did not feel like an early season fixture, as a result.

The Liverpool players were booed getting off the team bus. By the time the visitors made it out to inspect the pitch, there were Newcastle fans gathered to jeer them some more. When the champions' line-up was read out by the stadium announcer, a few minutes before kick-off, the cacophony of boos was deafening.

The passion of the home support was matched by the intensity Newcastle played with. Liverpool, tellingly, conceded seven fouls in the opening 20 minutes alone as they aggressively tried to keep the hosts back.

Ben Ramsdale
BBC Sport

It can't go on like this, can it?

Liverpool

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk, speaking to Sky Sports:

"We all know it's a difficult place to come. We know there was a lot of oil on the fire this week to get Newcastle fired up. What happened tonight was expected and, for us, the disappointing part was that we conceded two set pieces. That shouldn't happen but overall great three points, move on and focus on the next one.

"Free-kick, corner kicks the pressure gets on. They had the quality. If you look at the traditional top six here last season there was only a couple that beat them It's always a difficult place to come.

"I enjoy these type of atmospheres, so I was really looking forward to it but we could've made it easier if we don't give them those set pieces, then you give them the boost and the feeling and the drive with the fans behind them but we managed to get the three points and move on."

Thierry Henry
Former Arsenal forward on Sky Sports

So many times they [Liverpool] were not patient enough on the ball.

Every time they put the ball down, and tried to make three or four passes on the right or left hand side they opened up Newcastle but they didn't do it very often.

I don't know why. They got bullied at times but I think Liverpool got away with one tonight but that's how it is sometimes.

Like the other day when Arsenal won at Man Utd, it's the same thing. They managed to find a way to win.

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Newcastle United

Newcastle boss Eddie Howe speaking to BBC MOTD: "I think it was a great performance from the players, both first and second half in very different ways.

"First half we thought we dominated the game. We were in a great place with just the goal missing. Second half we had a mountain to climb at 2-0 down with 10 men but I thought we controlled the game. I thought we were really good and fought our way back unbelievably well but couldn't get over the line to get a point.

"I think it's tough to play against 11 men, especially against a team with the quality of Liverpool. The first goal was key, it gave us belief, it got us back into the match and we always felt if the margin was one we'd be able to get something from the match."

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Liverpool manager Arne Slot believes his side stayed "mentally strong" in an "amazing atmosphere" at St James' Park on Monday night.

The Reds scored a 100th-minute winner after being pegged back from two goals up against 10-man Newcastle in what was a raucous atmosphere inside the home of the Magpies.

You can hear what Slot had to say in full below.

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer

Newcastle United and Liverpool produced a night of drama on Tyneside that contained every classic element that makes theirs the Premier League's new bitter rivalry.

The purported villain of the piece, Newcastle's rebel striker Alexander Isak, was not even at St James' Park for an adrenaline-fuelled episode between the club that wants to keep him and the Premier League champions who want to add his name to their star-studded attacking cast list.

Who knows what Isak would have made of a game that was low on quality but packed with just about everything else, and settled in the 100th minute by Rio Ngumoha, who became the youngest goalscorer in Liverpool's history at 16 years and 361 days.

It was a sensational evening, not fashioned from classic football, but by the emotions charged by what is now assuming all the contents for a classic, long-running feud.

It sits along some vintage encounters between the two teams, not least the two memorable Liverpool 4-3 wins back in 1996 and 1997. The rivalry is well and truly back.

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