Our hopes of reaching the Carabao Cup final were ended in the semi-final as Newcastle United followed up their first-leg lead by recording the same scoreline at St James’ Park.
Trailing by two after the first encounter at Emirates Stadium, our task was made even harder when Jacob Murphy opened the scoring on 19 minutes, less than a minute after Martin Odegaard had come close to giving us real hope of turning the tie around when he hit the post.
Anthony Gordon then added a second eight minutes into the second half to agonisingly end our interest in the competition at the final four stage, while the Magpies reached their second League Cup final in three seasons.
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