The Mysterious Anfield Jinx: Why Newcastle Just Can’t Break Free
Hope, Interrupted Again
For much of the first half, Newcastle offered something enticing: control. Liverpool couldn’t get out. Eddie Howe’s game plan—a compact structure with aggressive pressure on Liverpool’s improvised back line—was working. Anthony Gordon’s goal looked like the ignition of a performance finally worthy of ending the curse.
But if Anfield is Liverpool’s cathedral, then Newcastle are the ideal visiting sermon illustration of human frailty. Just before half‑time, they folded in two blinks of an eye.
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