Rafa Benitez gesticulated wildly as another set piece was being readied to hurl at his penalty area.
Newcastle had held firm for 38 minutes but Benitez, almost encroaching on the Anfield surface, could see what was to come.
His defenders were not in the right shape, a shape that Newcastle had gone over meticulously in the week, and one designed to keep Liverpool at bay.
The manager went berserk, pointing towards the potential overload on their right with assistant Mikel Antia armed with an analytical notebook alongside him.