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LONDON. – A huge chunk of Newcastle fans have never seen their side lift a trophy – but Sunday could finally be the day.
It’s been 70 years since the Toon celebrated getting their hands on some silverware, when they beat Manchester City to win the 1955 FA Cup.
The 1968-69 Fairs Cup triumph aside, the Magpies have been left utterly deprived of titles.
But on Sunday, Eddie Howe’s squad have the chance to finally break that horrendous drought when they take on Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley.
And in the latest episode of SunSport’s Tactics Exposed, our tactics expert DEAN SCOGGINS looks at where Newcastle can hurt the Reds and finally end their silverware misery.
Here are Dean’s three top observations…
Alexander Isak did a very, very cool thing against Virgul van Dijk when they played in at St James’ Park earlier in the season, which finished 3-3… I’m going to call it “go, stop, go”.
We’ve got a fairly similar formation set up for both teams – they’re going to set up as 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1, fairly similar.
But the most important thing, what we’ll see straight away is Liverpool’s back four are going to be against Newcastle’s attacking three.
Isak will be the man to try and take on Ibrahima Konate and Van Dijk by himself, because Newcastle will go man for man in a lot of other areas on the field – Howe backs them to win individual duels all over the pitch.
2. Joelinton surprise key to stopping Salah
Newcastle have obviously got a problem where with Lewis Hall injured, they’re going to have to move Livramento to left back.
It’s a shame is because what they’ve done previously against Liverpool is almost create a back five by having Hall playing the left midfield role and then Dan Burn playing left back.
Burn comes inside and Hall goes back to left back, which creates a back five, which means Mo Salah’s got a double up scenario.
They haven’t got that because Burn is going to have to play as the left centre back and Livramento is going to be the man who’s going to be one for one. − The Sun
