Great finish though

Great finish, though.Lee: I sensed we were playing well, even though we'd gone behind. Les's strike after Tino's great little run confirmed that.Liverpool 1 Newcastle 2 (14 min)Collymore: We were caught ragged. Getting crosses in has been something I've worked on this season, so that was very pleasing.Lee: We seem to give teams a goal start. I had my back to goal on the edge of the 18-yard box, managed to turn Steve Watson and get a cross in which had enough pace and height for Robbie Fowler to get on the end of. I would have been happier to have played in a boring game where we sneaked a goal and won 1-0.

Results are all that matter.Liverpool 1 Newcastle 0 (2 min)Collymore: We were very positive from the kick-off, and I remember Rob Jones playing the ball to me on the left. In one of the few moments when things calmed down I remember standing with Steve Watson on halfway and he said to me "It's free-for-all isn't it?" The feeling generally was one of disbelief. Lee: People have been coming up to me ever since last Wednesday and telling me what a joy it must have been to have played in the match of the season, maybe the match of the decade It wasn't. For rather than the brass he has spent, more for the brass neck he has brought over the last four years, this man with the midas touch does deserve some silverware.. At 8pm last Wednesday Newcastle United kicked off at Anfield needing a victory to draw level on points with Manchester United Collymore: It's a shame for players when a game is going at that sort of pace because you haven't time to comprehend what's going on. I've never played in a match like that - not when you consider what was at stake and the sense of theatre surrounding it. After all, Keegan is so close to achievement in what he calls "My England" at Newcastle and should be strong enough to endure the brickbats.

It is precisely because one wants Keegan to succeed with his preferred attitudes and personnel that much of the criticism and opinion is offered. But Manchester United's well-organised ability to defend does not seem to inhibit their fluency.Such heretic suggestions should not cause Keegan to invoke his "or I go" clause; even though the job of Terry Venables - another with a penchant for "My Way" on the karaoke - is up for grabs. We have had enough of the "I'm pleased with the point and happy to have kept a clean sheet, Brian" brigade. No one wishes to stifle Keegan's creativity or his vision; no one wishes to see Philippe Albert's swash buckled. Indeed, a few sessions with a Don Howe might just remedy some shortcomings, if Keegan could entertain it, and take them that extra mile from contenders to champions.Oh dear.

We begin to sound like a curmudgeonly coach or dour defender grounded in the Seventies We don't mean to. Keegan may not enjoy working on defence in training but he probably knows a man who does. At times David Ginola simply let go the right-sided player against him, Jason McAteer, notably in supplying Steve McManaman for the cross for Robbie Fowler's second goal. And if a move or refereeing decision was not to Asprilla's taste, it seemed the game moved on without his input as he waited for the next attack.In addition, to mark up from corners, as Newcastle did not at Arsenal, and to defend from the front, as Liverpool did against them and Keegan did in his distinguished playing career with them, does not mean to compromise one's principles. However, he does not appear to relish the minutiae of the game's more tedious but vital elements. "When Don Howe was coaching the defence with England, I knew what he was trying to do but I lost interest after a few minutes," Keegan said recently.His former coach at Newcastle, Derek Fazackerley, now with Blackburn Rovers - and confronting his old club at Ewood Park tomorrow night in another huge match - once admitted to me that it was probably the flaw in their work, that perhaps not enough time and attention was given to players' positions once the ball had been lost It showed against Liverpool. His pleasure comes in accumulating players of disparate talents and seeing how they will interact.He has admitted, for example, that he was unsure how Asprilla and Ferdinand would blend but added that it would be fun finding out, like turning a kaleidoscope and seeing how the patterns change.