Luke Shaw explains why Manchester United players did not get a day off after winning Carabao Cup

Manchester United left-back Luke Shaw has set the target of trying to win the FA Cup this season following Sunday's Carabao Cup final triumph over Newcastle United at Wembley.

United ended their six-year wait for a trophy with a fairly comfortable 2-0 win over the Magpies, thanks to first-half goals from Casemiro and Marcus Rashford. The former headed the Reds into a 33rd-minute lead, rising highest to meet Shaw's free-kick delivery, ahead of Rashford doubling their advantage just six minutes later via the aid of a deflection.

Newcastle dominated the game for long spells in the second half, dictating possession, but did so without ever really threatening David de Gea between the posts. The closest they came to scoring after the break was when Jacob Murphy's swerving effort went just wide late on.

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The Reds, justifiably, celebrated on the Wembley turf in front of their army of supporters, while manager Erik ten Hag was even spotted dancing with summer signings Lisandro Martinez and Antony. But despite the jubilation Sunday's victory brought for the whole club, the players were back on the grass at their Carrington training base by Monday lunchtime, putting plans in place for Wednesday night's FA Cup fifth-round tussle with West Ham United at Old Trafford.

Shaw told Sky Sports: "I think obviously we don't want to look too far. I think of course the game is a really big game on Wednesday.

"It's a competition that, of course, we want to look to win. I think that's why we're in today [Monday]. There's no days off.

"There was not really many celebrations last night, so I think full focus after that was just to make sure that we come in today and