Two years ago, English Newcastle was very pleased with one thing to get into the UEFA Champions League, but the quartet for Forty was very complicated there: with Dortmunda Borussia, Milan and Pari Saint-Germain, so they had a strange campaign. And it took a year to make the team headed by Eddie Gau return to this competition, which during this time managed to change the concept.

The lot and this time was not too much affected by Newcastle, because the first rival of the English club was Catalan Barcelona. In general, “Blaugranas” is not too fond of traveling to England, and last season they have passed this country in their European Cup adventures, but Saint-James Park was all the same-they support their team exclusively here.

And they maintain so much that this pressure of the stand and pressure from the GA’s players from the first minutes almost drove Hans-Diter Flik’s team in a dead end. At least Bars was wrong more often than she could predict it. And the moments of the owners began to appear quite quickly, and if the conditional Gordon hit the ball in slaughter situations, it could be very, very interesting.

Or Barnes realized that moment in the middle of the first half, when John Garcia saved the team from the inevitable, as it seemed, taking the gate. Meanwhile, the Flik’s team gradually pushed the ball away from its own possessions, and the end of the half spent already in the foreign half of the field.

The second half of the meeting began with the moments with the head of Jeelinton and Tonali, who were dangerous, but the Brazilian did not hit the goal from the corner, and the Italian after him knew Garcia on the line. But Rashford, with the completion of the attack from the second floor on the 58 minute of problems, no longer arose. Kunde fed from the right flank to the center of the penalty area, where Bern lost the position of the fellow citizen, and he directed the ball to the far corner.

Gau immediately threw four fresh football players at once, but this did not take the second missed ball, which by the efforts of the same Rushford turned out to be a real masterpiece. The rocket, not a blow, flew to the crossbar from the area in front of the penalty area. Although before that, the number of ball losses in the striker of Bars was perhaps the largest in the team. Especially before the break.

With a score of 2: 0, in its own benefit in a foreign field, the Flik team felt quite comfortable, and if it was caught “forty” on some counterattack, it would be possible to survive at all the defeat of rivals at the start of the European Cup part of the campaign. But Instead, Barcelona missed Gordon for 90 minutes, which completed a penalty from the right flank of the counterattack in the center of the penalty. And the extra nerves began to the guests, although at the end of Olmo at the end of the compensated time we still had to see the third ball from the guests. If it weren’t for the Pope.

In the next round, Newcastle will stay with Belgian Union, and the Catalan Barcelona will host a French couple Saint-Germain.

Newcastle – Barcelona 1: 2
Goals: Gordon, 90 – Rashford, 58, 67

Newcastle: Pope – Trippier (Botman, 76), Cher (Tai, 63), Bern, Lebramento – Himarez, Tonali, Jeelinton (Murphy, 63) – Elanga (Vilk, 63), Gordon, Barnes (Voltemad, 63).

Barcelona: J. Garcia – Kunde, Arauho, Kubari (Kristensen, 69), Martin (E. Garcia, 81) – where Jong, Pedry – Rafinia, Fermin (Casado, 90+3), Rashford (Olmo, 81) – Lewandowski (Torres, 70).

Warning: Jeelinton, Bern – Martin, Fermin, where Yonng, Casado