Isak on target as Newcastle ease to Carabao Cup win over rotated Chelsea

Hope is alive and kicking at Newcastle after all. Just as Eddie Howe’s players seemed to be sliding towards mediocrity, a place in the Carabao Cup’s last eight has changed an entire narrative.

Quite apart from creating the tantalising possibility of securing a long craved piece of silverware and, with it, a backdoor route into Europe, this cup run is helping to camouflage the offstage tensions that have contributed to Newcastle’s latterly disappointing Premier League form.

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