Steve Bruce admitted there were “no excuses” for Newcastle's tame Carabao Cup defeat to Brentford as he braced himself for a fan backlash.
The Championship side outclassed Toon and could have scored more than Josh DaSilva's second-half winner. Social media went into meltdown after blowing the chance to reach a major semi-final to lift the gloom of another uninspiring league campaign.
The Toon boss said: “I am hugely disappointed because we have missed a wonderful opportunity to take the club into a semi-final where it hasn't been for 40 odd years. "I am bitterly disappointed but simply haven't played well enough tonight to win the tie. "We should have had enough to win the cup tie.
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