Who Is Liverpool Match-winner Rio Ngumoha?

Sixteen-year-old Rio Ngumoha became nan 4th youngest scorer successful Premier League history erstwhile he fired location Liverpool's winning extremity successful their 3-2 triumph astatine Newcastle connected Monday night.

Reds leader Arne Slot turned to nan teen successful nan 96th minute, throwing connected a subordinate who will move 17 connected Friday aft nan 10 men of Newcastle scored an improbable equaliser successful stoppage clip aft being 2 goals down.

Mohamed Salah slid a debased shot crossed nan container successful nan last stages for Dominik Szoboszlai to measurement complete and time off to Ngumoha to expertly decorativeness connected his Premier League debut.

For Liverpool fans, it whitethorn not travel arsenic a astonishment to spot Ngumoha sparkling connected nan biggest shape aft his awesome performances during pre-season - wherever he netted 2 goals and assisted 2 more.

The England Under-17 guardant was mobbed by team-mates aft scoring nan decisive extremity and was shoved successful beforehand of nan travelling support connected Tyneside to soak up nan adoration.

Ngumoha is not really a Liverpool academy product, having only moved to Merseyside from Chelsea's younker set-up past summer.

At nan clip Blues fable John Terry wrote: "This boy is and will beryllium a apical player."

He's not looking wrong.

Ngumoha, who turns 17 later this week, shone successful pre-season to get fans wondering if he could beryllium portion of nan first squad this year.

The second-youngest Liverpool subordinate successful a competitory crippled ever started a pre-season friends against Athletic Bilbao connected nan near helping - and he caught nan oculus arsenic he has done each summer.

The teen scored successful conscionable nan 2nd infinitesimal arsenic he ran connected to a loose shot successful his ain half earlier racing guardant and curling a good effort successful from 20 yards.

He caused nan La Liga broadside each kinds of problems pinch his dribbling and trickery.

The 16-year-old near to a opinionated ovation midway done nan 2nd half.

"He is specified an fantabulous prospect," said ex-Reds defender Gary Gillespie connected LFC TV.

"The difficult is managing expectations but it's difficult to put a lid connected it."

Slot said: "Rio is showing things each clip successful pre-season."

Ngumoha's capacity successful that crippled came connected nan backmost of an assistance against AC Milan and extremity against Yokohama F. Marinos successful Asian friendlies.

He looks a good talent, if raw, and will beryllium hoping much first-team competitory games are connected nan way.

In January, Ngumoha became nan youngest subordinate to commencement a lucifer for Liverpool - aged 16 years and 135 days aged - successful nan 4-0 triumph complete Accrington successful nan FA Cup.

But that was his only first-team quality of nan run and he did not make nan chair for a Premier League crippled until nan opening crippled of this play against Bournemouth.

After nan tragic decease of Diogo Jota and nan income of Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz, Slot has a elder guardant statement of Salah, Hugo Ekitike and Cody Gakpo.

Now Ngumoha has made his breakthrough and Liverpool will dream his thrilling involution astatine Newcastle is nan commencement of thing big.

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