Liverpool put in one of their worst performances of the season in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday.

The Reds looked tired during Tuesday’s gruelling loss against Paris Saint Germain and compounded that with a pathetic showing at Wembley.

It was always likely that the PSG penalty defeat was going to weigh on Liverpool’s mind during the Carabao Cup final.

However, with five days in between the games, it should have been expected that Liverpool would have the game out of their system.

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Instead, the Reds turned in an genuinely embarrassing display against an energised Newcastle.

If the first-half was not bad enough, Liverpool came out for the second in poor form, too.

Reds boss Arne Slot gave his reaction.

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Tiredness obviously came into it here, but there’s no way Liverpool should have been as bad as they were on Sunday.

You have to show up for a final.

Newcastle did, Liverpool absolutely did not.

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Credit should be given to the Magpies, they ran all over Slot’s team.

But both goals looked preventable.

The second came after Newcastle got in too easily down the Liverpool right.

Andy Robertson was beaten by a header at the far stick and Isak swept home.

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“Arne Slot shakes his head as he watches a replay on the big screen,” journalist Lewis Steele reported on X.

“Andy Robertson beaten too easily at the back post and then a prolific finish from the clinical striker Alexander Isak.”

Slot may have been disappointed by what his team served up on Sunday, but the truth of the matter is that his chickens finally came home to roost.

The Liverpool head coach has done so many things right this season.

But his lack of rotation during the earlier parts of the season cost Liverpool at Wembley.

The Reds have been slowly looking more and more tired into the final part of the campaign.
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