How Newcastle won the Carabao Cup final, and what Liverpool lacked in Wembley’s defeat to finish the most difficult week of Arne slot. Football news
Newcastle was waiting for a trophy for a long time by beating Liverpool on Sunday, and he also stopped a decade without winning against Reds in the process. They made a side with a lead of 12 points at the top of the premier league, more usually than almost anyone has succeeded this season.
A team of Eddie Howe limited Liverpool to one shot before halftime and xg of 0.89 in total to earn a convincing victory over Arne’s slot side in the tactical and physical master at Wembley.
What did Newcastle do to stifle his opponents and beat so comfortably – and what was hard to miss the team that were the furious Premier League leader?
Newcastle’s effective press
In previous games against Liverpool this season, Newcastle seemed to frustrate Liverpool and hit them in a break.
But by encountering a side that moved the distance in the middle of the week against PSG, with the physical and mental stress he meant, Howe showed up that he had fully used the benefits of pressing red.
This tested Liverpool’s determination and whether it was a lack of confidence or fatigue – or more likely both – their answer was long, with their long passages of almost 50 percent on average during the Premier League season.
Direct movement is not a problem on its own, especially when it owns Liverpool in passing – but not when they are busy balls, forced by this Newcastle with red colors that lack their usual composition. Exactly a third of their 57 long balls found a teammate, far below their average season of 48 percent.
Energy and Tempo Newcastle’s Front Three set the tone, but it was in the middle of the field where the battle really won. Brazilian duo Joelinton and Bruno Guimaraes marched the center of the park, taking 27 duels between them and winning nine each – in both cases, the best number of anyone on the field.
Arne slot drew when he wondered if it means that Magpies worked stronger than his part, saying, “They won more duels than us. Is that abolition?
“Or is it one of their biggest qualities, playing so many air duels and winning these physical duels?”
Regardless of the reason, Ryan Gravenberch looked shadow from himself to the point, he was ready to transfer him to the central back 10 minutes after the half, while Alexis Mac Allister also never had a hand on his South American colleagues.
Salah was suffocating in the second final
Mo Salah running without an open goal in the finals continued at Wembley, but it concerns that the anonymous Liverpool talisman and the most consistent winner of the match were over 90 minutes.
Everyone has quiet games, but this was one of his least effective in almost eight years in Liverpool, at the time they needed him most.
Salah had only one touch to Newcastle Box and did not register a shot over 90 minutes – he had at least two in each Premier League game he played this season.
The Egyptian did not help the lack of any true width behind him, in the absence of Trent Alexander -nrold and Conor Bradley – with 45 percent of Liverpool attack down the left flank.
This came from a source of possession, and he was also prevented from doubled on Tino Lovramentto, who had a comfortable game in the left back and the 32-year-old rarely tortured.
The Liverpool’s most common combination of passing was Virgil Van Dijk Feeding Andy Robertson on the other side 16 times during 90 minutes – with Scotsman completed almost twice as much as the final third of the entry and passing over Jarell Quansah.
Liverpool’s stubbornness from the corners
The permanent question of the finals was why Mac Allister remained Mark Dan Burn in the corners even when it had already become apparent before his opener that it was an air misunderstanding with just one winner.
Giant Geordie connected to two corners, both deep headers against Argentine 10 centimeters shorter than him, before proved by three strokes and pulled out Liverpool when Burn beat Caoimhin Kelleher with his next effort before the interval.
Instead of trying to find a way to reconcile the physical presence outside Dijka and Ibrahim Konate, Howe decided that his best bet was to completely ignore them.
“What they do with these corners is to take out the Konate and Van Dijk from the game,” he said Heavenly sports’ Gary Neville. “They are in a box with six yards, protecting the area. But Burn, which is a giant, continues to bypass the back on (Kieran) to Trippier’s moved crosses.”
Mac Allister remained on him after halftime and almost made him pay again as he easily shaken midfielder Liverpool to meet Guimaraes’ return from another angle. Kelleher kept the effort that Alexander Isaac was knocking home – before the offsid flag interrupted their celebrations.
Reds mixed commemoration system that mostly served them this season – in the Premier League they only received one goal from Corners, one less than the next best Aston villa.
That was enough for the slot to defend the decision to signify Van Dijk and Konate zonely closer to his own goal and to risk further penalties from Burn.
“We play zon, so we have five players, zone, near our goal,” he said. “So if the ball falls there, there is always one of five stronger players to attack that ball. And we have three players who are Man-Mark and [Alexis Mac Allister] is one of them.
“Usually a player like Dana Burn or another runs to the zone – and I think he is an exception to it, as I have never seen it in my life, a player from that faraway hit the ball with so much force into the far corner.”
Inevitable fatigue
Although the slot denied that fatigue had anything to do with the bad performance of his players, there was no doubt that they had run into the ground since the turn of the year in a tiring two -and -a -half -month spell, and proved to be Wembley.
“Newcastle wins a lot of other balls. They were sharper,” said Gary Neville shortly before halftime, although the trend continued throughout the game.
Reds’ Running also included semifinals Carabao Cup and Sunday final, 11 Premier League games and three Champions League games-Plus for another half hour for an additional time in time in last week’s defeat of PSG,
No team of the Premier League used a smaller player than a slot, and none of the seven teams that made fewer changes in the lineup – Newcastle is not in Europe among them.
This had to contribute to Liverpool’s fall in the intensity of recent weeks, and most dramatic on Sunday. Last weekend they found a goal at home in Southampton before a three-time change in halftime and owed their first victory at PSG goalkeeper Alisson, who scored nine savings in Paris-made the Reds goalkeeper in one game in more than a decade.
“Were we mentally or physically tired on Tuesday?” The published slot for the groove said after this last defeat. “No, but this game had nothing to do with running.
“This game only had to do with the playing of the duel and there was no intensity at all about running in this game, so you can’t even judge it if we were tired, physically, because we couldn’t press them.”
Apart from Howe’s side enjoying the free week, while Liverpool was a distance on Tuesday night, each of the Newcastle outfields, which began XI, played on average three games less than his opponents than the turn of the year.
Publicly, the groove may have defended his choice decisions, but behind closed doors, he can consider whether a few more days of rest will be helpful for individual members of his team from the turn of the year, given the week they had just endured.
