Gary Neville went into Arne Slot and criticized his tactical approach during the 2-1 defeat of Liverpool by Newcastle in the EFL Cup final.
The performance of the Reds was far away from their dominant show-outs in the Premier League this season, because they left their second cup in a week, after their defeat of PSG by PSG in the Champions League Last-16 on Tuesday.
Despite the controlling of 66 percent of the property, Liverpool only forged seven shots compared to the 17 of Newcastle, while the eddie Howe's side hit the poor show of their opponent in midfield.
Mail Sport – Columnist Martin Keown wrote on Saturday that the final is determined by the two midfield mammoths of Newcastle – Joelinton and Bruno Guimaraes – and this was certainly the case.
Liverpool's often reliable midfield duo from Ryan Gravenberch and Alexis Macallister looked overwhelmed. Despite the attempts to change it in the middle of the park, Neville regretted his failures while Liverpool pursued a shortage of two goals for a large part of the second half.
“If there is something, Liverpool gets worse,” Neville argued after Curtis Jones, Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo from the bank had been introduced.
“The substitutes did not help them. Midfield is scattered. There are gaps everywhere. '
Later Neville Slot of 'Form out of the window' accused a route back to the competition.
The Dutchman raised Harvey Elliott and Federico Chiesa for Gravenberch and Luis Diaz in the 74th minute. The substitutes who were linked in the 94th minute to withdraw one for Liverpool, but it was too late for the Premier League leaders.
Then Burn opened the score for Newcastle with a header from no less than 15 meters, after half of Kieran Trippier before the break.
The 6ft 5 in the middle of the back climbed high to nod the ball in the left corner and sent thousands of fans of Newcastle – including the presenters – in Raziernij.
Burnn's goal means that he has scored more not -Penalty goals in cup final than Liverpool's Mohamed Salah -The Egyptian king still has to manage such an achievement, even though he is one of Europe's form players this season.
Alexander Isak, the best goal scorer in Newcastle this season, doubled the fortunes on the other side of the peace to set them two, but there were a few nervy a few moments when Ferico Chiesa stopped the shortage with a few minutes left.
Newcastle, however, managed to see the last minutes of the game to win their first piece of Domestic silverware since the 1955 FA Cup, ending a 70 -year -old drought.
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