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The one who will be champions.

If Liverpool don't go on to win the Premier League title from here, it will be the greatest collapse in the league's history.

He’s had himself an excellent career and carries a goal threat even into his thirties at Premier League level.

But he’s not Alexander Isak.

And as much as defenders don’t like strikers who constantly look to run in behind them and make them chase back towards their own goal - Wilson’s bread and butter - Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate will have been more than happy to see the Toon’s main man missing on Merseyside.

Isak has shown on a regular basis, but perhaps nowhere more impressively than in the Carabao Cup defeats of Arsenal, how impressive he is as an all-round centre-forward; in those games he dominated the centre-halves, scored goals, assisted, beat people for fun and linked play brilliantly.

Watch how much space he covers each game - and how he’s now just beasting opponents with his physicality.

He’s also improving his goals output, his opener here his seventh of the season in all competitions - the same number he managed last season in all competitions, having played nine fewer games.

Still only 24, he’s not yet anywhere near his ceiling3

See you on March 16

We’ve touched on the missing Alexander Isak above.

When these two sides meet again on March 16 in the Carabao Cup Final, who can make a big difference to Newcastle in the crucial final third.

Because apart from those last actions - the final pass, the shot - they were competitive enough here.
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