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Ant and Dec poked fun at Liverpool’s corner set up in their Carabao Cup final defeat to Newcastle United.
A fortnight on and Newcastle United’s Carabao Cup final win over Liverpool is just about sinking in for Geordie defender Dan Burn.
The boyhood Newcastle fan opened the scoring in the 45th minute when he directed Kieran Trippier’s corner past goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher. In the days after, Burn admitted to watching the goal back over and over again.
At Saturday’s Town Moor parade - where 150,000 supporters were in attendance to celebrate the club’s first trophy in 56 years - Burn was interviewed on stage by TV presenters Ant and Dec and was, of course, asked about his goal.
And when delivering the question, Dec poked fun at Liverpool’s marking from the resulting corner with the smallest player on the pitch, Alexis Mac Allister, left to deal with the 6ft 7 Blyth-born defender.
Dec, at 5ft 6, joked he might as well have been marking Burn. He said: “Can we talk about the goal? When that ball comes over and Mac Allister is stood there, it’s like me marking you! What was going through your head?”
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Burn, with a smile on his face, replied: “Head it as hard as you can! It’s one of them that I’ll probably never do again but I saved it for a special occasion. As soon as I headed it, I knew it was in. It was just a shame it was at the Liverpool end cause I didn’t know what to do when I celebrated!”
Arne Slot explains Liverpool corner set-up
Liverpool boss Arne Slot was forced to explain the thinking behind his corner set-up in his post-match conference.
“Again, credit to Newcastle,” said the Dutchman. “But I can explain. We play zonal so we have five players zonally close to our goal, so if the ball falls there it is always one of the five stronger players that are going to attack that ball. And we have three players that man-mark and Macca is one of them.
“Normally a player like Dan Burn or another one runs to the zone because normally… I think he’s an exception to that because I have never seen in my life a player from that far away heading a ball with so much force into the far corner.
“That is part of logic, that they either have to go far away from our zone, which 99 out of 100 times that will never lead to a goal, or they have to arrive in our zone and then it’s an equal battle, if you want to call it like this.
“So credit to him, I think he’s one of the few players that can score a goal from that distance with his head.”
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