​Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez admitted his side have only themselves to blame for being knocked out of the EFL Cup on penalties to Hull on Tuesday night, according to the ​Mirror.





The Championship club went ahead in extra time after the first 90 minutes ended 0-0, with Mo Diame scoring against his former club. Robert Snodgrass, however, equalised within seconds after goalkeeper Matz Sels pushed the ball to the Scot, and Sels was unable to save his side as the match drifted through to a penalty shootout.

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Benitez admitted he wasn't happy with his side's game management in his post-match interview, saying: “We are disappointed because we played so well. We are out of the competition, but I think we deserved to qualify. Is it a missed opportunity? Yes, I think so.





“The way we played we deserved to score in first half and extra time. When we scored we didn’t manage the situation properly. Hopefully we can use this experience and learn to keep the advantage in the future.





“We played really well against a Premier League team away. I said: 'We have to score and we have to win.' There was one less player for them, and we were in control. We scored, now it is done, but we made a mistake and they were back in it.”





Benitez also admitted his side did not practice penalties in training, despite the distinct possibility that that's how it could have ended up. He added: “It is a different situation to the game.”

“I don’t want to talk about the goalkeeper – the team as a team made mistakes. That is what allowed them to score. It is not about the keeper – it was the midfielders, the defenders, everyone. We allowed them to get to a position where they should not have been.





“When you are winning so many games, every time you have a defeat or a bad result, people will talk and ask questions.





“Now, we will see what will happen. But it was a long season before this week, and it will be a long season after this week.





“We still have to carry on working hard and doing things in the same way. If you see the game today, what can you say? We had five or six chances in the first half where we could have scored, and we played really well against a Premier League team.





“In extra-time, we had the control, but we made one or two mistakes.”

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