Liverpool 1 Newcastle United 2: Match Review 2024

Neil Atkinson's review after the game for the Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 1 Newcastle United 2 in 2024-2025 League Cup final in the Wembley …

Everyone got what they deserved.

Liverpool committed some raids in our time. Arsenal in 2001. Cardiff in 2012. Obviously Istanbul, but is it an attack when magic is involved?

They had some raids on them. Athens '07. United '77. Madrid in the year '22, is it an attack when the game happens in another dimension for fans?

If you had a compensation after Federico Chiesa's consolation today, it would have been the most local attack by everyone.

Because Liverpool hardly deserves to have their journey home, let alone bring this game into extra time. Curtis Jones and Chiesa in a Uber. Everyone else wonderes why the trains are so shit.

They were second best in every department. They call a department and Newcastle has shaped them. They had a greater clarity of the purpose. They were smarter. Heavier. Faster. This dark punk song. They were over and over again. Everything they did was crisp.

They better covered their injury and fitness problems. They gave everything, found even more and gave it. Joelinton is an absolute nightmare that you can play against. He cheats and fights and plays entirely on the red line. They don't like, but on days like today I take my hat off to him.

Alexander Isak has been tracked down a lot, but today Jacob Murphy is recognition for himself. Dan Burn wins everything and my God makes Liverpool so easy, but still. Tino Livremento is always so good and Harvey Barnes is a thorn. It was Newcastle's uneducated boys who carried them home.

But there were no surprises either. I could have selected your team and your approach. They were the Newcastle that we always wanted to get. The one who has everyone else.

You have won this trophy that has defeated the team, which is currently fourth, the team, which is currently in second place, and the league leaders. You deserve to win all of these games. They deserve to raise the thing.

There is only one facet in which Newcastle does not deserve to raise the trophy, and that is the intensity of the boot patch while singing the national anthem while holding scarves that are branded and provided by Sela. But what do you expect? The Jarrow march did not reach anything and the northeast longs for crumbs from the shaky table of the British establishment.

A low blow, a reprint and an unbeliever, but at least a blow that is more than the red for 93 minutes.

The greatest concern is that the manager has chosen a damn fourteen days for fourteen days to reach his rocky time since he took over the job. So far, the water has been completely quiet, but there is a lot to question in its last four selections, now we see it as a lot of work. It raises a lot of questions. For example: What did he see in Diogo Jota and Cody Gakpo in training that we haven't seen on the field?

Gakpo in particular looked a million miles before fitness on Tuesday and today looked 999,999 miles before fitness, but was introduced as his third U boat.

It is legitimate to deal with Jota; Since he came back, he has only really looked off the bank. All of this in turn raises open questions about the use of the squad. Harvey Elliott and Chiesa looked bright enough in different ways.

Gravenberch suddenly wears his miles, which would be okay. But Mac Allister wears her more heavily. I would have started the leading goalkeeper, but who knows what promises were made.

I think he selected the wrong team for four games in a row and when you listened to the shows, you will know. But I can say that. I have less information and my claims are not tested. He is.

Ultimately: you have to dance you breed you. Or to be reformulated, Arne Slot would say in his right: “The answer to your questions is 2.4 points per game – don't you just want to win the league, Dickhead?” When he read all of this nonsense.

Is right, Arne. Happy to be the tail head. However, two weeks after eight months, Marvelloity was not good. So let's re -group two months of the Marvelloity and go to summer.

But no longer about it. Since the manager has occurred, he set the glove, the size of the club and the demands for excellence was aware, so that this cannot be the last time for two weeks in March. Football is too irreconcilable.

More irreconcilable than me if we are honest. I sit here in Sydney at 6.20 a.m. and ended this after enjoying the hospitality at Cheers and with the New South Wales Supporters Club. It will be impossible to really fall out with the boys who make a brave fist when he delivers the 20th title of Liverpool.

But. Guys. You have to deliver it now. No excuses. No hidden places.

Time to take a break and then beat Everton.

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