| Liverpool 3-0 Newcastle United | |
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Game Date :: 04.05.1974 Competition :: FA Cup Final |
Stadium :: Wembley Stadium Spectators :: 100,000 |
| 1 | Ray Clemence |
| 2 | Tommy Smith |
| 3 | Alec Lindsay |
| 4 | Phil Thompson |
| 5 | Peter Cormack |
| 6 | Emlyn Hughes |
| 7 | Kevin Keegan (G, 57' 88') |
| 8 | Brian Hall |
| 9 | Steve Heighway (G, 75') |
| 10 | John Toshack |
| 11 | Ian Callaghan |
| Subs | |
| 12 | Chris Lawler |
At half time, with no goals scored, this was theoretically still a match either side might have won but this was an illusion.
Liverpool, composed and well organized, had been steadily tightening their grip. Newcastle had moments of promise in the first half.
In midfield, McDermott played with skill and determination, Smith was at his jinking best and Hibbitt showed excellent positioning and passing.
But Newcastle were disappointing in attack. Tudor's early enthusiasm seemed to fall away after some early frustrations, and MacDonald, the flamboyant 'Supermac', was handled coolly by the Liverpool defence and caused them few problems.
Liverpool's first sharp attacks before half time were a foretaste of their liberation and Newcastle's destruction in the second half.
Lindsay's fifty-first minute 'goal' looked perfect but was disallowed. Seven minutes later Smith centred from the right, Hall dummied, and Keegan drove the ball high past McFaul.
That one counted.
There was a little left now of Newcastle, and Liverpool were running wild.
From Toshack's back header, Heighway gathered the ball, rounded Moncur and shot just inside McFaul's right hand post.
The game was over, but there was still one goal to come.
The build up involved eleven uninterrupted passes, and the last, Smith's from near the deadball line, found its way to Keegan in front of goal: 3-0.
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