Yohan Cabaye put the home side ahead with a fine long-range strike, but Steven Gerrard claimed his 100th league goal from the penalty spot to equalise after Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa had been sent off for holding back Luis Suarez. Young defender Paul Dummett, sent on to shore up the home defence following Yanga-Mbiwa’s dismissal, crowned his home league debut with a 57th-minute goal to restore Newcastle’s lead.
But Suarez crossed for Daniel Sturridge to head in an equaliser 18 minutes from time, taking the England striker’s tally of league goals to seven and provisionally lifting Brendan Rodgers’s side above Arsenal at the top of the table.
Newcastle, beaten 6-0 in the corresponding fixture last season, climbed one place to ninth. Prior to kick-off, hundreds of Newcastle fans marched through the city centre protesting about owner Mike Ashley’s management of the club. The supporters are disgruntled about the appointment of the unpopular Joe Kinnear as sporting director and the club’s failure to significantly improve the squad during the close season.
As if to illustrate his point, Liverpool enjoyed the early running at St James’ Park, with Suarez and Martin Skrtel both threatening from corners, only for the hosts to take the lead in the 23rd minute. Cabaye was given space to advance down the inside-right channel and from 30 yards he dispatched a vicious, dipping shot that flew past Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet into the bottom-left corner.
Yanga-Mbiwa was adjudged to have held back Suarez as he raced in on goal and from the resulting penalty, Gerrard steered a shot into the bottom-left corner.
But Suarez crossed for Daniel Sturridge to head in an equaliser 18 minutes from time, taking the England striker’s tally of league goals to seven and provisionally lifting Brendan Rodgers’s side above Arsenal at the top of the table.
Newcastle, beaten 6-0 in the corresponding fixture last season, climbed one place to ninth. Prior to kick-off, hundreds of Newcastle fans marched through the city centre protesting about owner Mike Ashley’s management of the club. The supporters are disgruntled about the appointment of the unpopular Joe Kinnear as sporting director and the club’s failure to significantly improve the squad during the close season.
As if to illustrate his point, Liverpool enjoyed the early running at St James’ Park, with Suarez and Martin Skrtel both threatening from corners, only for the hosts to take the lead in the 23rd minute. Cabaye was given space to advance down the inside-right channel and from 30 yards he dispatched a vicious, dipping shot that flew past Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet into the bottom-left corner.
Yanga-Mbiwa was adjudged to have held back Suarez as he raced in on goal and from the resulting penalty, Gerrard steered a shot into the bottom-left corner.