Newcastle United finally finished 70-year-old waiting on the main domestic trophy, as they produced an extraordinary final EFL Cup effect to beat the Premier League leaders Liverpool 2-1 at Wembley.
Magpies were seen as underdogs for their second EFL Cup final in three years, Newcastle lost 2-0 two years ago from Manchester United on the same stage.
But this time they climbed the occasion to enroll in Newcastle Folklore, a header from the first half from Burn Day, followed by a top second star of attacker Alexander Isak.
Federico Chiesa aroused Newcastle Nerves late with a second, but Men Eddie Howowe stuck to demanding a well -deserved victory and put into sleeping ghosts who have been chasing the club for decades.
We did it !!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/yz9bmdyrcg
– Newcastle United (@nufc) March 16, 2025
Liverpool against Newcastle
Newcastle created a better chance during the first half, Sandro Tonali bending around the broad right post and Bruno Guimaraes’s stuck header from the immediate vicinity of too soft to make the problems of Caoimhín Kelleher.
Liverpool had an appeal to the sentence John Brooks waved and cleaned it after Kieran Trippier acted in the area under the pressure of Luis Diaz. Trippier’s hand stretched out Var ruled to use it for balance.
Shortly thereafter, Newcastle scored a goal that their first half deserved when Dan Burn, a consistent threat in corners in an introductory 45 minutes, launched Trippier’s deep delivery to the bottom left with a top head of Magpies to Wembley for 25 years by sending their passenger fans to Rap.
Newcastle thought they had the other six minutes in the second half, when Isaac went home from close range, after Kellher kept a burglan effort after the corner, only to think that Bruno Guimaraes had to interfere with the game from an extraordinary position.
But just a minute later, Isaac scored his goal, produced a cultivated first end from Jacob Murphy to leave Liverpool with the mountain to climb.
The groove responded by throwing Curtis Jones and Darwin Nunez and Jones almost halved a deficit, and his malicious effort turned to Nick Pope.
But at the other end, Kelleher made even more heroes to denies Isaac, after Harvey Barnes greatly made the ball back for the Swedish striker.
Barnes and Murphy then pray at the time and, as the clock tagged halfway of eight minutes of injury, Federico Chiesa pulled to Newcastle offsidal trap and calmly passed outside the pope to find Liverpool to force extra time.
However, the extraordinary return from the potential Premier League champions should have happened, as Newcastle saw the remaining six minutes of play to launch a delirional scene as they celebrated, bringing their painful waiting at the end.
