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Liverpool BOTTLE the Carabao Cup Final? Newcastle STUN Reds at Wembley! ⚽🔥

March 17, 2025·31 min·1 clip

Liverpool's worst performance in a final—absolute disaster against Newcastle in the Carabao Cup.

Luke and Oli open with tension. They are a Liverpool fan and a Chelsea fan, so the setup is made for instant pushback once the weekend's biggest result is on the table. The Carabao Cup final loss to Newcastle takes over fast. Luke calls it a horrible day, says it felt like Liverpool's worst final display in a long time, and Oli wastes no time enjoying the discomfort. The corner to Dan Burn gets picked apart. They talk through the mismatch, the marking choice, the defender's size, and the way Newcastle used a simple set piece to punish Liverpool. Liverpool's build-up takes its share of blame too. The discussion shifts to how often they chose the wrong route out, forcing long balls into Jota instead of using width, clips, or smarter ways past Newcastle's shape. The pain spreads to the rest of the week. They bring in the Champions League exit and the sense that Liverpool have turned one bad run into a miserable stretch of football. The title race still hangs over everything. Luke admits that if the season ends with the Premier League in Liverpool's hands, he will swallow the cup disappointment and take the trade. Oli does not let him forget the earlier confidence. They circle back to old December chatter, the idea of looking over shoulders, and the way football arguments age badly when the points start moving. Arsenal away comes next. Both hosts dismiss it as a snooze fest, a flat game with very little invention and almost no attacking conviction from either side. The tone stays blunt. They keep calling out the lack of ideas, the toothless forward play, and the general sense that nobody looked close to taking control. Even the goalkeeper jokes land, with Sanchez getting the Flappy Bird treatment. By the end, the episode settles into the familiar rhythm of two committed Premier League watchers, one enjoying the other's misery, both still trying to make sense of the table, the fixtures, and what the next week might change.

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A candid football chat that keeps the match detail front and center.

This episode stays with Liverpool's painful Carabao Cup final defeat to Newcastle, and Luke and Oli make the most of that by arguing through the corners, the marking, and the rushed build-up play.

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You want a Liverpool-vs-Chelsea head-to-head with blunt talk about a very bad week for Liverpool.

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