Liverpool's Ngumoha, 16, nets stoppage-time winner at Newcastle

Rio Ngumoha sealed a dramatic 3-2 win for Liverpool at Newcastle on Monday night, coming off the bench to score a stoppage-time winner in the 100th minute at St James Park and become the club's youngest ever Premier League goalscorer and the fourth youngest in competition history. The 16-year-old's strike — a composed first-time finish at the far post after Mohamed Salah's cross and a dummy from Dominik Szoboszlai — capped a frenetic finale and sent the travelling Liverpool support into raptures.

Ngumoha, who was introduced late after Will Osula had levelled for 10-man Newcastle, described the moment as "crazy" and said manager Arne Slot's hurried signal to prepare had left him little time to think. "You just have to come on and make an impact and luckily, thank God, I did that," he told reporters. He credited team-mates for encouraging him to take on defenders and for Szoboszlai's awareness. "He said to me in the changing room I hoped you were there and then luckily he just looked and then I was there," Ngumoha said.

Senior players lavished praise while urging caution. Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk called it "a dream debut" and hailed the move as "a perfect attack," but...