Jamie Carragher believes Anthony Gordon's semi-final sealing goal against Arsenal has exposed an issue that the Gunners need to crack down on. After he benefitted from Fabian Schar's brave and relentless pressing for Newcastle United, Eddie Howe's side had secured themselves a place in the final.

Already 3-0 up on aggregate by the time Gordon pounced on Arsenal, Newcastle were well on their way to Wembley. The match and tie finishing strike added gloss to a performance across both legs that Howe and his men deserved.

With two touches, Gordon controlled the ball after Schar had disposed Rice on the edge of his own box and slotted it underneath Raya. In a repeat of the goal Arsenal themselves had scored just days earlier against Manchester City, Newcastle went into celebration mode at St James' Park.

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For Carragher, watching on, it wasn't Rice being ambushed in possession which grated on him but the goalkeeper's role in it. Writing online he expressed his frustration at the method involved.

"Keepers need to be banned from playing those passes into midfield players," he wrote. The former Liverpool defender has previously labelled the straight ball into a player facing their own goal, therefore shut off from what is behind them, as the most dangerous and worst pass in the game.

Often a cue for pressing triggers and the sort of intense push up the field as Newcastle showed here, it is a pass that many managers are willing to risk in the process of playing out from the back. Coaches also aim to draw on their opposition before attacking through the space then exposed.

Newcastle, with one of the most energetic midfields around, exploited Arsenal's tactic to full extent, even going as far as allowing Schar to push on from the backline in order to cramp Rice for time. Over the two legs it was the clinical finishing, as Gordon showed, that made the most difference.