2 min: A flowing Liverpool counter-attack starts with an excellent pass from Jacquet into midfield. Wirtz carries it forward, exchanges passes with Gakpo, and the German unleashes a fierce shot on the edge of Newcastle’s box, well blocked.

The tributes to Keegan continue, to the tune of David Bowie’s Heroes, just before the two teams come out onto the tunnel. Newcastle in their abomination barcode of a home shirt – how have they somehow butchered those splendid stripes?! – and Liverpool in a rather smarter red home strip.

There is a minute of applause for Keegan, raucously observed. Twice voted the greatest footballer on the planet, Keegan was a lot more to Newcastle United and Liverpool FC.

“It’s very rare that deaths of famous people affect me, but Keegan was an exception: his passing stayed with me for days afterwards,” emails Chris Paraskevas. “It is difficult to surmise his importance to Newcastle’s history: I only witnessed his last ‘reign’ at the club, when he carried himself with his characteristic dignity and honesty during the Mike Ashley era, so the best parts of his legacy has been passed down or re-lived. His passing has only added to the massive sense of change / foreboding in the offseason, with Eddie Howe’s departure and the club’s plans to ‘be the best in the world by 2030’ revised to ‘best in the world by 3020’ (paraphrasing). When Pierre-Emile Højbjerg is turning you down, you know it’s going to be a rough season.”

Sky Sports have just shown a montage on Kevin Keegan and banners and tifos are now being shown around St James’ Park. I mentioned it earlier but there is a very moving mosaic of shirts on the pitch inside the centre circle – made up of jerseys left outside St James’ Park after the news of his death broke last month. Former players have flown in from all around the globe for his game, including Faustino Asprilla from Colombia.

I regret to inform you that I have gone. Legend is a term that is thrown around a lot, but King Kev was the definition of that word. RIP.

Delving into the Liverpool XI, there are two eye-catching selections.

Firstly, Rio Ngumoha: the 17-year-old looks like he is lining up on the right wing, with Cody Gakpo on the left. After Mo Salah’s departure, Liverpool have struggled to replace him during the transfer window, failing in their attempts to sign PSG’s Bradley Barcola and Brighton’s Yankuba Minteh (the Reds had a £50m bid for the latter turned down on Thursday). There is a real opportunity for Ngumoha to lay down a marker here and claim that spot for his own.

Secondly, Jérémy Jacquet has been chosen to partner Virgil van Dijk in central defence, despite the recent loan arrival of Ronald Araújo from Barcelona. Jacquet was really impressive in pre-season after his £60m move from Rennes was confirmed this summer. There are high hopes for the 20-year-old but many a promising young centre-back has come unstuck on his debut.

Newcastle’s new head coach, Matthias Jaissle, speaks to Sky Sports:

It’s a transition phase. It’s a huge challenge. There will be some activities – hopefully – in the transfer market in the next week. But we are going to go for it [today], we will go all in. As soon as I saw Lewis Miley on the pitch, I was falling in love. He had a brilliant training week, we have to see if he’s ready for 90 minutes.

Here is a taste of some of the tributes to Kevin Keegan in and around St James’ Park.

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Newcastle’s top-four chance creators from last season all have left the club. The club made well over £200m from the sales of Anthony Gordon, Sandro Tonali and Bruno Guimarães but it’s interesting that summer arrivals Bazoumana Touré (signed for £43m from Hoffenheim) and Aladji Bamba (signed for £30m from Monaco) are not in Jaissle’s XI today. Where are the goals going to come from?

Here is Louise Taylor’s preview. And yes, it is on Alexander Isak.

Almost a year ago to the day, Newcastle’s first home match last season was also against Liverpool. With Alexander Isak holed up in his Northumberland mansion 10 miles south of St James Park’ as he attempted to force through a move to Liverpool, Newcastle conceded a 100th-minute winner, scored expertly by the Reds’ teenage star Rio Ngumoha.

A lot will depend on if Liverpool do any more business for wide players in this window (and how much Iraola trusts new signing Víctor Muñoz, who looks very promising) but this could possibly be a huge season for Ngumoha. The English winger has it all, he just needs the opportunities to prove it.