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Mar 16, 2025, 03:26 PM ET

LONDON -- Newcastle United ended their 70-year wait for a domestic trophy on Sunday at Wembley as Liverpool followed last week's UEFA Champions League round-of-16 exit with a dismal Carabao Cup final performance in a 2-1 defeat against Eddie Howe's team.

Boyhood Newcastle supporter Dan Burn put his team ahead with a stunning long-range header on 45 minutes before Alexander Isak doubled their lead from close range seven minutes into the second half.

The win also ensures that Howe is the first English manager to win a major trophy since Harry Redknapp guided Portsmouth to FA Cup glory in 2008.

Five days after crashing out of the Champions League in a penalty shootout against Paris Saint-Germain at Anfield, Liverpool never looked like retaining the trophy they won under Jürgen Klopp last season, and Arne Slot's team now have just the Premier League title to play for this term.

Although Newcastle won the now-defunct Inter-Cities Fairs Cup by beating Hungarian team Újpest Dozsa in 1969, the club's supporters have always regarded the 1955 FA Cup final win against Manchester City as their last major trophy.

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No other major club in world football has gone so long without winning a cup or league, and Newcastle had lost five major finals and twice finished Premier League runners-up since that 1955 success.

It was Liverpool's first shot of the match and summed up their abject first-half display against Howe's side.

It was only five days ago that Liverpool contested a grueling 120 minutes against PSG in the Champions League, and it showed against a Newcastle team that admirably shouldered the hopes and dreams of an entire city at Wembley.

Make no mistake, it has still been an extraordinary campaign for Liverpool and -- barring a monumental collapse -- they will get their just reward in the guise of the Premier League trophy in a couple of months' time, but despite Slot's prematch insistence that his team needed no extra motivation after their European exit, Liverpool looked jaded in Sunday's showpiece fixture.

It is a defeat that will be given ample time to fester, with 17 days to go before the Reds' next outing against Everton in the Premier League.

-- Beth Lindop

Newcastle lifted their first domestic trophy since 1955 on Sunday by beating Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final. Justin Setterfield/Getty ImagesBurn lives every Newcastle fan's dream

Burn was already living the dream as a Newcastle player before scoring one of the best headed goals you will ever see to put his team on course for Carabao Cup glory.

The Sweden international, a club-record £63 million signing from Real Sociedad in August 2022, secured his place in Newcastle folklore by confirming the end of the club's 70-year domestic trophy drought.

With proven goal scorers now so rare at the top level of the game, though, Isak's goal against Liverpool will only make him a more sought-after target for the biggest teams this summer.
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