Patrick Vieira has admitted that Newcastle United's substitutes helped make the difference in the Magpies' penalty shootout win against his Crystal Palace side - even if Bruno Guimaraes and Sven Botman both missed.
Eddie Howe, ideally, did not want to have to use those key players he left out of the starting line-up on Wednesday night. However, with the third-round tie still goalless at St James' Park, the Newcastle boss turned to his bench midway through the second half.
Kieran Trippier, Botman and Bruno generated one of the loudest roars of the night when they entered the field in the 66th minute and the players fed off that energy. Suddenly, Newcastle started to play with more intensity and the noise levels went up further when Miguel Almiron came on a little later.
