Eddie Howe accepts Newcastle’s season could hinge on their Carabao Cup quarter-final against Brentford on Wednesday night. “I feel we can still grab the season and be very successful,” Howe said. “But games like this become pivotal to that. We can achieve great things but, likewise, the opposite can happen if we don’t have the right attitude to this game.”
Lifting the Carabao Cup would make Howe – a losing finalist against Manchester United in 2023 – the first English manager to secure the trophy since Steve McClaren at Middlesbrough in 2004. “That’s not so much in my thoughts,” he said. “It’s for Newcastle, trying to end this club’s wait for a trophy is the burning desire.”
