Fabian Schar snatched victory from Liverpool’s grasp as Newcastle held the Premier League leaders to a rip-roaring 3-3 draw at St James’ Park.

Mohamed Salah seemed to have rescued an eighth successive win in all competitions when his second-half double – each arrange by substitute Trent Alexander-Arnold – put the guests 3-2 forward after Alexander Isak and Anthony Gordon had struck both aspect of Curtis Jones’ equaliser.

Nevertheless, Switzerland defender Schar squeezed residence a Ninetieth-minute equaliser to say a deserved level on the finish of an exciting encounter which rekindled recollections of the 2 4-3 classics between the perimeters in the course of the Nineties.

The tone was set early on when Caoimhin Kelleher needed to palm away Sandro Tonali’s second-minute shot, and so they wanted skipper Virgil van Dijk’s intervention when he hacked away Isak’s cross contained in the six-yard field with Bruno Guimaraes awaiting a tap-in after the striker had exchanged passes with Joelinton.

The Reds responded in decided vogue, Alexis Mac Allister sending Nick Pope sprawling to palm away his low drive earlier than clipping the surface of a put up with a left-foot try after a nook had been half-cleared.

Newcastle virtually took the lead in spectacular model within the twenty second minute. Gordon muscled Salah off the ball, Isak picked out Jacob Murphy’s run with a positive cross and his shot flew previous Kelleher and hit the bottom of the put up.

Guimaraes fired straight on the keeper after Isak had tricked his manner deep into the field and crossed seconds later, and Lewis Corridor was solely denied a close-range shot at purpose by Joe Gomez’s determined problem after Isak had nutmegged Van Dijk and threaded the needle.

The impasse was damaged 10 minutes earlier than half-time when Guimaraes slid the ball into the Sweden worldwide’s path and noticed him step outdoors Van Dijk earlier than blasting an unstoppable shot previous Kelleher.

It ought to have been 2-0 inside three minutes when Gomez’s error gifted Gordon a free run at purpose, just for the previous Everton winger to stab the ball straight at a grateful Kelleher.

Having completed the primary half within the ascendancy, the hosts returned decided to take care of their momentum, but it surely was punctured inside 5 minutes when Salah, who had endured a quiet night till that time, discovered time and area on the precise to cross for Jones to comb residence an equaliser.

Cody Gakpo noticed a 53rd-minute effort deflected simply vast and Darwin Nunez simply did not get a contact on the Netherlands worldwide’s header again throughout purpose.

Gomez threw himself into the trail of Gordon’s shot after he had surged deep into enemy territory on the hour, however the Liverpool-born frontman was to not be denied and when Isak accepted Guimaraes’ cross and slid him in, he lower inside earlier than firing throughout Kelleher to make it 2-1.

Pope produced a positive response save to maintain out Jones’ Sixty fifth-minute header, however he was overwhelmed for a second time three minutes later when substitute Alexander-Arnold crossed for Salah to whip the ball contained in the far put up.

Murphy lifted the ball over the advancing Kelleher however vast of the purpose after working on to Gordon’s cross excessive, however Salah was denied by the upright after forcing his manner in from the precise with eight minutes to go.

He thought he had received it seconds later when he span on Alexander Arnold’s cross and beat Pope for his fifteenth purpose of the season, just for Schar to grab some extent when he slid in to transform Guimaraes’ free-kick from a good angle.