Newcastle United advanced into the last eight of the Carabao Cup following a 2-0 win against Chelsea at St James' Park.
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00:00Newcastle United 2 Chelsea 0 here at St James' Park in the Cowboy Cup this evening.
00:06Newcastle United in the quarter-finals of the competition for the third consecutive year.
00:11Brentford next up here in that quarter-final round, so a favourable tie on pay-offs.
00:21Reflecting on the game tonight, a really, really good performance from Newcastle.
00:26A result that was much needed after a difficult run of results.
00:30It was five without a win in the Premier League.
00:33Of course, they've came up against the Premier League opposition tonight
00:38and I thought in the first half they were really, really good.
00:42Everything you associate with this Eddie Howe team was there.
00:46High press, high intensity, St James' Park.
00:50The St James' Park crowd was well in the game, got the crowd well up for it.
00:54In that first half, they deservedly won it at half-time.
00:572-0, Alexander Isaac.
00:59A big goal for him, hopefully a confidence booster for him,
01:03and an own goal from Axel Diassi.
01:06Although, sort of, you could give it to Joe Willock.
01:10It was his flicked header from Isaac's cross that went in and went goalwards
01:16and it was diverted home by the Chelsea defender.
01:21We'll give that to Joe Willock.
01:23I thought he was good today.
01:26Him and Joe Linton on that left-hand side.
01:29It was brilliant to see.
01:31I said before the game when I was seeing the team sheet,
01:33I was really looking forward to seeing their partnership come back
01:37because I think it was the second half of the season
01:40Newcastle finished with the Champions League.
01:42It was those two on the left-hand side and it was some partnership.
01:46Part of the reason why Newcastle got over the line.
01:48To see them back that at the day was excellent in that first half.
01:52Second half, Newcastle had a defensive job to do.
01:57They carried out that really, really well.
01:59I would say overall it was probably a comfortable win against Chelsea.
02:02They had only 11 changes but had billions of pounds in that start.
02:0511 ends up in hands, there's £100 million midfielder.
02:08A really positive night for Newcastle.
02:10Big step in the right direction and a lot of momentum heading into that Arsenal game
02:14here at St James' Park on Saturday.