Highlights: Liverpool - Newcastle | FINAL | Carabao Cup 2025

Welcome everybody. The 2025 Carabao Cup Final, the first silverware of the season, will be won today. Is that famous three-handled trophy heading to Anfield or is it heading to St James' Park? This is the 65th EFL Cup Final. I'm sure the hairs are standing up on the back of their necks. Whatever you've won, whatever you've done, this is special. Isak, and he's got Sandro to Nali. Nali's shot! And we've had Kelleher moving to his left-hand side swiftly. Eddie Howe liked it. There's a little clap from the manager. I think Barnes should really go here, go at Van Dijk, commit him. You're central, he really has to force Isak wide. They've recycled the ball really well to get the shooting opportunity, but I just felt Barnes had that moment as he was driving at Van Dijk. Barnes for Newcastle. Nice embrace as well. Both full-backs really appreciating each other's game. This is a chance. Pulls off brilliantly Isak, drifts the ball to the back post with the cross, and that is a really good block. There is no doubt, approaching the last 10 minutes of this first half that Newcastle have had the better of it. Trippier's driven corner. Dan Burn's powerful header was flicked off the wall. Ronald Kimaraes got a little bit on that, not enough to divert it away from Kelleher. But that is the problem when you have McAllister in and around Dan Burn. ...by Soboszaj trying to test Trippier. And Luis Diaz almost took it away from Trippier there. Diaz was appealing for handball as Trippier clears away downfield. The appeal for handball. ...and cleared, no foul. The ball just bounces up him. He's right there, here in Trippier, accidental as his body's in a natural state of motion. That right hand comes out, it just grazes his fingers. Steven Gerrard watching from on high, played in a few of these finals for Liverpool. Barnes is deflected off Canarte. It's going to end with Newcastle on the front foot. So is there to be a breakthrough, a twist right before half-time? Newcastle's corner, driven in, swerving away to Burn. It's a good header, it's in! And Burn puts Newcastle in front. Castle's giant defender, Jordi, through and through. Hence Eddie Howe's side in front in the last seconds of the first half. They've been the better side and now they have the lead. Newcastle 1, Liverpool 0. Wow, what a week for Dan Burn. What a moment for Newcastle. Absolutely fully deserved in this first half. They've been the better team and we've already seen on several occasions Dan Burn, a free header, but boy, it is absolutely spot-on. Really got into their rhythm. Big disappointment in the week, a lot of physical and emotional energy into that game, and didn't get their best here today yet. Here's Joelinton. Given to Halaster. Hamid Salah, the red shirt's flying forward here, Salah, outside of the boot, Luis Diaz, Androtta! And it's come off Fabian Scherr, has it? No, it's a goal kick. It's probably Liverpool's best chance of the half. Virgil van Dijk, and it's a good ball. Nice pullback too, Luis Diaz was arriving, Joelinton was covering, and the Newcastle man got their first, just. He just leads it. He's got no clue he's coming back. He's celebrating those interceptions, like he's scored a goal. Moving ahead of it, Tripp is delivery, Joelinton around the back, oh, and Keller with a save! 2-0! Flag's up, won't count, Isak thought he'd scored. It will be checked, but Eddie Smart's flag is up, the on-field decision is that it's no goal. Oh, it's going to be really tight. I mean, look how that goes in there, looks to me like Grabenvich is playing him on. This is very, very tight indeed. Is Ryan Gravenvich playing Isak onside? The lines have been drawn and the goal will not stand. It's Ligamento for Harvey Barnes, 2-0 test, it's Isak, and it is a goal! Castle United have won absolutely nothing since 1960. 2-0 up in the Carabao Cup final of 2025. Alexander Isak's finishing is one of the highest percentages in the Premier League this season for a reason. And you see it right here. What a lovely finish from the Newcastle frontman, the way he takes this opportunity on the half-volley, it's absolutely superb. They cannot believe what they're seeing. A little sign. The insane! Pope over the top from Curtis Jones, Liverpool gone at it. Lovely build-up play through the midfield, then they've got the overlap, ball back to him, that's a great reaction, Nick Pope. Cos that is travelling that ball, he just wants to hit the target, Jones, with real power, great save. He keeps Liverpool in the end zone. That would have been some goal from Fabian Scherr if that goes in. I mean, what a piece of play. Newcastle, midfield battle, they've been first to every ball, no different in this scrap, they win it, brilliant play to the back post, Isak for once just can't quite find the finish. Liverpool have not scored, the flag has gone up. The flag is going to be really tight. Oh, well, that looks onside to me. Looks onside to me, it really does. Yeah. Well, here comes the news. Federico Chiesa has scored for Liverpool. After review, the Liverpool number 14 is onside, and the final decision is a goal. Liverpool 1, Newcastle 2. Chiesa's English may not be good enough to work out what the referee was saying, but he's just scored. The substitute has come on and kept his cool, that has to be said. It's a really good finish with his left foot. 56 years of waiting, but it could be Monday, the 17th of March, by the time this final finishes, the way we're going. He's a bit ahead of... And the trophy, for the first time since 19 years of hurt, end at Wembley Stadium. The Carabao Cup is won, the Geordie nation have silverware to celebrate. The tears and the delight are merged into one. Newcastle United have done it. And they deserve it, that absolutely. Just on the tip of my tongue, I cannot think of a club that deserves it more than Newcastle United. Here they come. Big save, he has indeed got the Alan Hardacre Trophy down, but 1969-20 is over.