The latest Newcastle United injury news ahead of Sunday's Carabao Cup final with Lewis Hall and Sven Botman out and Anthony Gordon suspended.
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00:00If you look back a week and a bit ago, you had Anthony Gordon, Lewis Hall and Sven Bottmann almost available.
00:06Without them three, has the mood in Liverpool changed?
00:09Did Liverpool feel more confident not having to come up against those sort of players on Sunday?
00:15Or has it not really affected that because, as I said, you've been concentrating too much
00:20probably on the Champions League and Premier League and all that?
00:23I think at the time when it came out, it did.
00:27Obviously, everyone's seen the red cards.
00:28Anthony Gordon is a top player and caused Liverpool a problem.
00:36St James' Park, a big pitch at Wembley, you'd be fancying to try and get him behind Liverpool's defence there.
00:41So that was a big boost, as you say.
00:43Lewis Hall, everyone's seen his performance against Mo Salah at Anfield.
00:48He's been a real impressive left back.
00:52I mean, if Liverpool need a left back, and there's no disrespect for Newcastle,
00:56some people have said, well, why don't we maybe go and try to get him?
00:59I think that would be a little bit fanciful myself.
01:02But he's someone who is highly rated, as is Sven Bottmann as well.
01:06He's the leader at the back, isn't he?
01:08And he's just been unlucky, hasn't he, again with another knee issue.
01:13But now you've had these two injuries.
01:16Well, you've got the one to Trent Alexander-Arnold, obviously,
01:19Karnati coming off to maybe tip the balance a little bit more in Newcastle's favour.
01:24But, as you say, it's been sort of game, game, game, the Carabao Cup.
01:30It's been a little bit at the back of the minds, Liverpool's minds,
01:33just because it's been so hectic.
01:35Well, coming around to it now, people are looking at the team news, etc.
01:38And as I say, when all those reports came out about Lewis Hall and Bottmann,
01:43was it like, well, basically, after two days in a row, wasn't it like it came out?
01:51You did feel that it was a big boost for Liverpool at the time, definitely.