Beware, London, the Geordies do not start anytime soon. The Toon army will celebrate well in the international break after Newcastle ended their expectations of 56 years for a major trophy on Sunday afternoon.
The goals of the local hero Dan Burn and the striker Talisman Alexander Isak on each side of half-time pushed the upper Magpies in a 2-0 deserved advance. Eddie Howe’s team was on the right track for a comfortable triumph despite a number of good chances of putting the final in bed.
The leaders of the Premier League Runaway, Liverpool, participated in the competition as a favorite, but they failed to throw a glove on Newcastle until Curtis Jones has a well saved effort by Nick Pope just before the hour. Their possible consolation, which arrived via Federico Chiesa in time of time, could have triggered a remarkable collapse of Magpie, but the Howe team saw the remaining minutes expert to climb their names in history.
Boy, made a slit Arne Tinker in the second half. The director of Liverpool used the five substitutions in the 74th minute, the form of Reds evolving considerably as the competition progressed towards its conclusion.
However, apart from the introduction of Curtis Jones and its deeper use in the midfielder which offered Liverpool greater resistance to the press in the face of the intensity of Newcastle, there seemed to be less thought and more hope surrounding changes in slot.
The Dutch coach has aroused many applause for his desire to adapt into play, and more often than not, his subtle modifications were clever. Slot’s work on Sunday was not his best, and he failed to make a key adjustment of the sets.
Dan Burn A 6’7. Alexis Mac Allister at 5’9. Of course, Argentinian’s work is not necessarily Duel The Newcastle Defender, but surely an switch involving Virgil Van Dijk or Ibrahima Konate as a man marker would have been more useful since the main threat of Joy Newcastle was first half. Burn was first in contact with almost all deliveries while the cunning magpies wisely avoided the central defenders of Liverpool by targeting the rear post.
They took full advantage of a gap, burn capped a memorable week by filling the premier opener with a categorical header on half-time. The interval offered the optimal location to adapt, but there was no major change on the sets. Just before Isak doubles Newcastle’s advance, the Swedish excluded a goal after Jelinton escaped Liverpool blockers at the back post.
Newcastle by Eddie Howe had the chance to end their long drought two years ago when they faced Manchester United in the final of the same competition. However, conceding two goals towards the end of the first half transformed a big day into another sorrow on the big stage.
Howe spoke of finding the optimal emotional balance before the Sunday’s final. The opportunity seemed to go to the Magpies in 2023 against a Red Beatable Devils, but they hit the perfect agreement here.
They took full advantage of a Liverpool team apparently still in shock from their penalty shooting defeat in the hands of PSG on Tuesday evening. The Reds did not come in the foreground while the side of Howe was working with relentless vigor. There were emotional thrusts, especially the two Brazilians in the middle of the park, but Newcastle channeled the fervor released by the Toon army and refused to wither. They struck the ideal point.
Newcastle’s victory means that Howe and this group of players will be immortalized on Tyneside. Howe became the first English manager to win the League Cup from Steve McLaren with Middlesbrough 21 years ago, and Newcastle’s first boss to deliver a large Argenne in generations.
Its stoic aura operates in contradiction with the city which supports its football club if with vehemence, but together, Howe and Newcastle turned out to be the perfect match.
He is the best England who is on the sidelines.
The clock checked the minute 99 following Liverpool’s late goal. Stewed tension Wembley. Newcastle couldn’t lose from here, right? Not after all that.
The next Liverpool wave was arrested by a poor head by Dominik Szoboszlai who was coldly mulchy by Bruno Guimaraes and seized by Sandro Tonali. The temperament of the Brazilian and the running of the Italian, which allowed Newcastle to kill more clock at a crucial stage, embodies a truly exceptional display of their midfielder triumvirate.
It was surely the two best machine rooms in the Premier League, but the Sunday duel was a complete victory for the three in black and white. Guimaraes provided scholars, Tonali was relentless and Jelinton recorded a hat -trick of celebrations for his defensive work.
It was not their ability to combine beyond their opponents in the middle of the park, but their ability to completely disturb the Liverpool flow.
The brightest moment of Liverpool of a first half belonging arrived when Salah had the opportunity to line Tino Livramento in head. The Salah cross was overthrown by Luis Diaz, and their only fire from the opening period was largely scratched by Diogo Jota.
This sequence surely put an exclamation mark on the Liverpool plan to return to the game: give the ball to Salah! However, this time, no red resurgence was inspired by the inevitable Egyptian.
His number of keys was barely out of figures when Newcastle marked their second, and there was only one opportunity when the winger aligned Livramento, winning a corner but nothing more. Howe made sure that Salah was not going to beat his team, defying the winger’s support cast to intensify.
They did not do it.
In truth, Liverpool was poor from behind to the front, and their problems on Sunday were not only down to display lower than the attack. However, as was the case in the middle of the week, the Reds suffered powerfully when their star man was limited.
