A lot has been said in the past day or so about the power of confidence on Newcastle's form, and how well Alan Pardew has done to ignore the calls on his head to "turn the team around". Similarly, the more Liverpool-liking parts of the media (everyone south of Leeds, in other words) suggested Liverpool had simply lost the game, and that questions should be raised over Brendan Rodgers. In truth, it was a little of both: Newcastle didn't so much win the game as invite Liverpool to lose it by frustrating, containing and breaking, and looking for a mistake that would turn a good point into a great three. Liverpool duly obliged when Moreno dallied on a clearance and allowed West Side Story lookalike Ayoze Perez to finish smartly from close range. But to dismiss the game that simply is to ignore the story of the victory for Newcastle, and the reasons why a team who almost won the league last year were overcome by one who had struggled to pick up any points for most of 2014. So here's a deeper look at how Newcastle won...
