by The banner in Wembley’s top animal could have been part of the team talk. It was certainly a motivation. “Write your name in the history books,” he said. Newcastle United did it. Dan Burn and Alexander Isak, the goal scorers who are held together in Tyneside folklore forever. The right -sided double act of Kieran Trippier and Jacob Murphy, who received an assist per piece. The unique Joelinton, which was renamed £ 40 millions of misalignment as a midfield power plant. Bruno Guimaraes, the first Newcastle captain, who has launched a trophy in Wembley since 1955.
Because the big drought is over; Your Wembley -Jinx, the Liverpool leader, who celebrated as Newcastle. Her former trophy in Wembley came for a few weeks after Winston Churchill was depressed as Prime Minister. Her former major Silver was a few weeks before you went to the moon for the first time. The adjective “boring” may have been designed for you. You waited and waited. “For [the fans] It’s like the World Cup, ”said Guimaraes. “People grew up and didn’t see us as a champions.” You have now. “It is the best day of my life,” said the captain. He is an adopted organ. Many from Northumberland come from Northumberland. “We break new ways,” said Howe.
The club, which had only experienced disappointment, gave up all the ambition to win anything in Mike Ashley’s era, has a reason to open the trophy cabinet from 1955 and the Fair Cup from 1969. Forget Newcastle Brown Ale, you are now opening boxes from Carabao on Tyneside.
If Clubs from Newcastle Stature should not go 56 years without winning 70 without a domestic cutlery, then the reality was that they had it. Maybe Newcastle wanted more, it took more than Liverpool. It looked like this on a groundbreaking day. Liverpool will win a larger price in the next few weeks. Newcastle was denied a place in Europe this season that won the FA Cup last season in Wembley, Manchester United. Now another shock has secured a continental tour next year. And yet after seven decades it was only a subplot.
There are strands in history, Saudi -Arabia’s ownership and the sympathetic group of players who were intelligently assembled and cleverly improved by Howe, a manager whose first job came with a Bournemouth team in the relegation zone of the league. But a high story became a true courtesy of a 6 -foot -7 -inch figure. Burn has become an unbelievable colossus, inelegant, but indispensable.
The boy from Blyth is the fan who thought his chance of playing for Newcastle had gone when a Saudi takeover gave them the day of the richest club in the world. Now a slow burner of a career has caught fire. Two days after receiving his virgin England, he received a medal and a man-of-the-match price, a Wembley victory and a Wembley goal.
Burns high -towering header from Trippier’s corner on which Caoimhin Kelleher was bent. Burn grew up to celebrate Alan Shearer’s goals. There was a decent reversal, the club’s record scorer jumped off in delirium when his geordie colleague scored on the last pipe when Burn was on his way to his people, his huge wing span with widespread arms, his face was unbelievable. Like Jackie Milburn, he scored a goal for Newcastle to earn Wembley Glory. “I had worse weeks,” he said. “I don’t want to go to sleep because I have the feeling that I dream and everything will be a lie.”
For him it was the stuff of faith. For Howe a triumph of the strategy. It was Newcastle’s sixth corner of half; They had a trick to look for combustion beyond the long post. Liverpool failed to monitor a giant with the rather smaller Alexis Mac allister, the next opponent. Arne Slot put this on a zonal marker system. Only burning, he said, could have achieved this header.
Newcastles expertise in Corners delivered almost a second, Trippier and Burn were involved, ISAK contested because it was offside. He soon met anyway, his 100th appearance in Newcastle brought a 14th goal in 16 games. The Swede was not cheap, but he still turned out to be bargains. Isak stroked a nice half -volley after Tino Livramento’s deep cross was attributed by Murphy. And once again it was a fan involved in Newcastle. Like Burn, Murphy is a graduate of the Lower Leagues, a man who played for Swindon, Southorpe, Colchester and Coventry.
And now for Newcastle, in Wembley. Which nobody did for a long time. This was only her second final in a quarter of a century. They returned more and less impressed than in 2023. This was an intensity demonstration, an illustration that you can best beat. They did not need the injured Lewis Hall and Sven Botman or the suspended Anthony Gordon. They had nine shots before Liverpools first, 17 to their seven. They had reduced a power that Liverpool was missing, possibly reduced by their efforts against Paris Saint-Germain.
And it was Liverpool’s worst performance of the campaign, Plymouth with the exception. Yours is still a great season, but this was a terrible week, a potential heights that was reduced to a lonely trophy within five days. Newcastle was widespread. Liverpool was tossed. They were flattered by the goal line, fine, when Federico Chiesa’s goal for his goal for injuries.
Jürgen Klopp’s last trophy will not be the first Arne slot. The manager’s great decision was possibly irrelevant. Kelleher has achieved a great rescue to keep Isak’s volleye away and to prevent Newcastle from achieving a third. The game was not defined by the choice of Slot’s goalkeeper, although Alisson looked at himself. The Irish has his foretaste of being the Final Hero of the Carabao Cup.
Now it was Newcastle’s turn. “When I came here for the first time, I said I wanted to bring my name to the story,” said Guimaraes. “We were very aware of the story,” repeated Howe. And now they have made it.
