What Eddie Howe 'couldn't believe' as Newcastle United win Carabao Cup after Liverpool win

Eddie Howe has broken his silence after Newcastle United beat Liverpool to win the Carabao Cup.

Local boy Dan Burn headed the Magpies in front on the brink of half-time before Alexander Isak netted in the 52nd minute. Federico Chiesa pulled one back in stoppage time to make it a nervy finish but United held out.

It brought an end to Newcastle’s 70-year domestic trophy drought.

“I am very very emotional and been all day which is unlike me,” said Howe. "We knew what was at stake today for all of our fans, we wanted to do them proud and win the trophy.

"I am so, so pleased with the result and the performance - we deserved to win today. It was tough when Liverpool scored. I was thinking about extra time, we always make it difficult for ourselves it was never going to be 2-0.

"I want to enjoy it first. I am always about tomorrow but I’ll put the coaching books away for a few days.

"Both teams were quite direct and we dealt with that really well. Nobody wanted to make a mistake, there wasn’t much pretty football played but we were effective in both boxes.

"We didn’t want to show our hand when we played them a few weeks ago, we still wanted to win that game we just did it in a different way."

By lifting the Carabao Cup, Howe made his own history, becoming the first Newcastle boss since Joe Harvey to do so.

Howe added: "We were well aware of the history and we wanted to do the club proud. We wanted to score, we wanted to perform and we wanted to win.

"We are breaking new ground, I thought we were magnificent today. We worked consistently for two weeks on set plays just for this game and if you had seen us in practice you would have said we haad no chance.

"We couldn’t believe Dan Burn scored - he didn’t train like that! He was a colossus for us."

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