Alexander Isak has scored three goals for Liverpool since joining the club from Newcastle United last summer

Alexander Isak was still technically a Newcastle United player.

But it did not feel like it as Eddie Howe's side prepared to take on suitors Liverpool at a fiery St James' Park back in August.

This was a night when one Geordie turned up in a Newcastle replica shirt which, at first glance, looked like any other.

From the front at least.