Newcastle 2 - 0 Liverpool - Match Report And Player Ratings

5. Georginio Wijnaldum - 8/10

Frustration, a little, but who cares? A couple of brilliant flashes were overshadowed by a number of misplaced passes, and a pretty bad free kick that flew over Simon Mignolet's bar in the first half. Then, the first goal. The ball broke for Gini in the area before he took it wide of the six yard box and saw his cross-cum-shot deflect off Martin Skrtel and into the roof of the net. His second came after a Moussa Sissoko break. The pass looked heavy but the Dutchman chipped over Simon Mignolet for a delightful finish to the game. Gini bought Newcastle plenty of yards with some lung bursting runs and scored the all important goals. That'll do for me...