Newcastle boss Eddie Howe responds to question about gaining 'revenge' on Manchester United

Eddie Howe insisted Newcastle haven't thought about revenge ahead of playing Manchester United in the Carabao Cup.

United defeated Newcastle 2-0 in last season's Carabao Cup final at Wembley thanks to goals from Casemiro and Marcus Rashford, which gave Erik ten Hag a trophy in his first year in charge of the club.

Two months after the final, the two sides met again in the Premier League at St. James' Park and Newcastle won 2-0.

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It was subsequently revealed, in Amazon Prime's fly-on-the-wall Newcastle documentary, that Howe said 'if they want a quick game… let's f****** give it to them' to his players in the dressing room before that game in April.

That was a response from Howe to comments made by Ten Hag about his side's timewasting before the Carabao Cup final, but the Newcastle boss was keen to stress there was no animosity from his perspective this week.

Howe spoke ahead of Wednesday night's match in the Carabao Cup when a place in the quarter-finals will be up for grabs.

"That's not our emotion as I sit here now," Howe said when asked whether Newcastle were hungry for revenge. "Our emotion is to prepare to win the game and a win gets us to the quarter-final of the competition.

"We loved our run in it [Carabao Cup] last year and we're determined to do as well as we can, despite the fact we do have a few injuries and the squad is stretched to a degree, we'll still try and be competitive.

"It features right at the top of our priorities because it's our next game. We select a team to win and it's no different for this match. Yes, we're going to have to use our squad and we have another game