Shay Given picks the perfect word to sum up his feelings after what happened to Newcastle

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Newcastle United’s depressing run against Liverpool continues after the Magpies failed to capitalise on a first-half Liverpool red card.

It’s now 14 games since Newcastle tasted victory against Liverpool despite the fact that Newcastle had so many advantages today.

Liverpool were lucky to still have a full complement of players just ten minutes in after Trent Alexander-Arnold should have been shown a second yellow card for a foul on Anthony Gordon just moments after being booked for dissent.

Newcastle failed to capitalise on Van Dijk’s red card

A few minutes later justice was served when Virgil Van Dijk was adjudged to have denied Alexander Isak a clear goalscoring opportunity and was given his marching orders.

Already 1-0 up Newcastle really should have pushed on and put the game to bed but wasted chance after chance before letting Liverpool back into the game in the second half.

Liverpool substitute Darwin Nunez came on to bag two excellent goals following defensive errors from Sven Botman for the first and Dan Burn for the second.

Shay Given used the perfect word to sum up fans’ feelings

It was a game that Newcastle should have won. They went into the game as favourites and when they went a man down while we were a goal up, it should have been a foregone conclusion, but Liverpool didn’t lie down, and did what they do best against Newcastle – win.

Speaking on Sky Sports at full-time, former Newcastle ‘keeper Shay Given summed up Newcastle fans’ feelings perfectly with one word – “Shell-shocked” going on to say “Disbelief. To come here and win with 10-men.”

Last week there was a huge overreaction to being beat by the treble-winning champions – I daren’t even look on social media for reaction to this one yet, because for me, this result deserves a strong reaction.