“I would like to say on the first day we are going to be perfect, everyone will be in place,” Liverpool’s incoming manager Andoni Iraola said through a pained smile, “but probably it is not going to be like this.” He was right.
Liverpool never strayed anywhere near perfection during a roller-coaster 2–2 draw away to Newcastle United in Iraola’s first competitive fixture at the helm of the Reds. The Basque boss’s side had to twice come from behind to steal a point in stoppage time and were perhaps fortunate not to have trailed by more than a single goal at any point in Sunday’s wide open contest.
