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Barely had Liverpool finished serenading its former captain when Newcastle made it 1-0, and it was the Geordie legend who ended the match the happier of the two.

While giving some praise to Liverpool, he credited Newcastle with a dominant performance:

"I know I'm p****d but...," Shearer began on X.



"Liverpool are a great club and will win the league and have been brilliant this season but the Geordies absolutely smashed them today and deserved it..."

Few Liverpool fans would be rushing to disagree with that.

He's right that Liverpool "has been brilliant" this season, but the past tense is indisputable — while Slot's men arguably exited the Champions League with a modicum of pride and spirit, it conceded its grip on the Carabao Cup with little more than a whimper.

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Sandro Tonali of Newcastle United in action with Ryan Gravenberch of Liverpool during the Carabao Cup Final between Liverpool and Newcastle United at Wembley Stadium on March 16, 2025 in London, England.

Liverpool needs to make certain that it does see out the Premier League title from here.

It would take an historic collapse for that not to happen — as it happens, only Newcastle can make a case to have thrown it away in similarly drastic circumstances, way back in the 1990s
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