Callum Wilson: 'I apologise for saying Liverpool aren’t back… they’re back with a bang!'

Newcastle forward Callum Wilson had spoken about Liverpool at the end of February and said this about the Reds: "You’re asking me are Liverpool back? What do you want me to say?

"They have won two games after the last couple of weeks and like I’m saying we technically let them win, it was a poor performance from our point of view."

He has now backtracked on his statement after the win over Man United and said:

“I apologise for saying Liverpool aren’t back… they’re back with a bang! The way things are going at the minute, anything I do, the universe brings the opposite!

“When United, a week ago, lifted the trophy against us, you couldn't see that result coming. That is football. That is the beauty of the Premier League.

"That's also why it is the toughest league in the world because a team that had been struggling earlier in the season [played] against a team that have already lifted a trophy this year, ends up going and beating them 7-0. It's a battering really, isn't it?”