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It took a while for the goals to come, especially at the Gtech

Brentford 0-0 Liverpool. The league leaders have started brightly, with Trent Alexander-Arnold and Cody Gakpo probing down the wings. An early half-chance for Mohamed Salah is blocked and cleared.

It’s 3pm, and whistles sound all across the land! I defy you to play this just the once.

Justin Kluivert scored his second hat-trick of the season as the injury-ravaged visitors ended Newcastle’s winning streak in surprisingly emphatic style

• Read Louise Taylor’s match report from St James’ Park

At his pre-match conference yesterday, Bournemouth’s manager was asked if he considers Newcastle to be genuine title contenders. “It’s a big question,” he said. “They are not so far from Arsenal, for example, and Arsenal definitely are title challengers.

“Probably you need to ask Eddie the question. They are playing so, so well that it makes you ask me these questions. They are beating everyone, also they’ve done it in a run of games that was not easy: they beat Arsenal, [Manchester] United and Tottenham in this period. They’ve performed better than them but I’m not brave enough to say it [that they are title contenders].”