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Before a ball had even been kicked, Newcastle coach Jason Tindall put forward one possible answer.

While the Carabao Cup may not be the most prestigious trophy in the game, everyone wants to win it once you get to the final.

But Arne Slot will now need to wait a little longer for his first Liverpool trophy, having failed to retain the crown.

"He went, "it couldn’t have gone better for us really, the fact that [Liverpool] had to go to the wire on Tuesday [against PSG] and make it so difficult for them."

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Liverpool was not particularly blitzed by intensity and high pressure — Eddie Howe managed to disrupt Slot's build-up with a solid out-of-possession game plan, but the match was not defined by high turnovers or overwhelming black and white waves of pressure.

Neither side had really created anything of note before Dan Burn's emphatic header from a corner on the stroke of half-time.

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But to the extent that energy levels settled the contest, they stopped Liverpool from imposing its game plan, rather than allowing Newcastle to do anything special with its approach.

In a sport of such fine margins, Tindall and Newcastle were always going to be pleased about how the PSG game panned out
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