Newcastle vs PSG final score, result from Champions League as Eddie Howe’s men demolish Mbappe and co.

By | October 4, 2023
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Newcastle stormed to a 4-1 win over an abject Paris Saint-Germain on a Champions League night for the ages at St James’ Park.

Miguel Almiron netted his club’s first Champions League goal for more than two decades in the 17th minute and Dan Burn doubled the advantage before the interval after a lengthy VAR check.

Sean Longstaff made it 3-0 in a moment that Gianluigi Donnarumma will want to forget and, although Lucas Hernadez pulled a goal back, PSG never truly threatened to get back into the contest.

Luis Enrique’s side were out-thought and out-fought on a raucous occasion that ended with Fabian Schar firing a blistering long-range strike into the top corner in stoppage time.

Newcastle vs PSG final score

  Fulltime Goal scorers
NEW 4 Almiron ’17, Burn ’39, Longstaff ’50, Schar ’90+1
PSG 1 Hernandez ’56

Lineups:

Newcastle (4-3-3, right to left): 22. Nick Pope (GK) — 2. Kieran Trippier, 5. Fabian Schar, 6. Jamaal Lascelles, 33. Dan Burn — 39. Bruno Guimaraes, 36. Sean Longstaff, 8. Sandro Tonali (32. Elliot Anderson) — 24. Miguel Almiron (23. Jacob Murphy), 14. Alexander Isak, 10. Anthony Gordon

PSG (4-2-4, right to left): 99. Gianluigi Donnarumma (GK) — 2. Achraf Hakimi, 5. Marquinhos, 37. Milan Skriniar, 21. Lucas Hernandez — 33. Warren Zaire-Emery, 4. Manuel Ugarte (17. Vitinha) — 10. Ousmane Dembele, 23. Randal Kolo Muani (29. Bardley Barcola), 9. Goncalo Ramos, 7. Kylian Mbappe

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PSG had an early chance to go in front when Ousmane Dembele volleyed wide from Kylian Mbappe’s cross.

But the Ligue 1 champions were soon struggling with their hosts’ intensity and Marquinhos was baited into an error by the Newcastle press. Bruno Guimaraes intercepted his pass, Gianluigi Donnarumma saved from Alexander Isak and Almiron tucked away the rebound. 

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Schar was agonisingly close to extending Newcastle’s advantage from a cleverly worked Kieran Trippier corner. Fellow defender Burn did just that in the 39th minute despite Donnarumma’s best efforts.

Goalline technology showed the left-back’s header crossed the line and VAR found Guimaraes was onside when he crossed for the goalscorer, following some frantic penalty box activity brought about by a Trippier free-kick.

There was more misery for PSG early in the second half when Longstaff darted onto a Trippier pass to fire a shot through Donnarumma before Hernandez converted a clever chip from Warren Zaire-Emery to reduce the arrears.

The 17-year-old Zaire-Emery was a lone PSG bright spark as Mbappe, Randal Kolo Muani and Goncalo Ramos all resided on the margins.

That was in part down to a supremely disciplined effort from the Newcastle defence, where Schar excelled. In stoppage time, he let his hair down, seizing upon another loose ball into midfield, exchanging passes with substitute Jacob Murphy and firing home a stunning 25-yard strike.

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PSG boss Luis Enrique loses the tactical battle

There were a couple of low-key recurring themes in the first half. Newcastle players were always ready to whip up a fervent crowd a little more, even for events as nondescript as conceding a goal kick. The other was Dembele taking possession on the right, coming inside and passing straight to a black and white shirt.

The fact this kept happening didn’t speak particularly highly of Dembele’s individual performance, but you also wondered whether the pass might have been on if Luis Enrique picked a central midfield of any description. His four-pronged attack of Dembele, Kylian Mbappe, Goncalo Ramos and Randal Kolo Muani looked bold on paper but didn’t manage a shot on target before halftime as an under-manned midfield struggled.

Manuel Ugarte faced a thankless task trying to provide some kind of a defensive shield, while Marquinhos flailed as he lacked simple passing options out of defence. That was at the root of Newcastle’s first goal and when no one picked up Longstaff’s run for the third, it was as simple as no one being stationed there to do so. This is a new-look PSG side suffering a defeat very much in keeping with their worst Champions League moments. Tonight, their experienced and esteemed coach didn’t give them a chance.

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Mbappe counting down the days to Madrid

When a grin played across Mbappe’s lips during the Champions League anthem, he looked like a man in the mood to do something special. His and PSG’s night might have been very different had Dembele converted his fine early pass but from that moment Mbappe was shunted to the periphery.

Over recent seasons, the likes of Lionel Messi and Neymar carried the can and were booed by PSG fans after Champions League failures. Hometown boy Mbappe was different. He’s now in a theoretically young and vibrant team being built around him as the lone superstar.

But he’s also spent a couple of summers batting his eyelashes at Real Madrid. It’s risky to read too much into television snapshots of footballers, but the sense at fulltime was that he’d ideally have looked a little more bothered.
 

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Fulltime: That was as demolition, a rout. What a night for Newcastle and their supporters. Not for the first time in a tough situation in the Champions League, PSG capitulated pitifully. This is a new, younger version without Neymar and other departed stars, but boy to Luis Enrique have a job on his hands. It didn’t help that he was out-thought by Eddie Howe and his team outfought by a superb Newcastle side. In a place where people like to talk a lot about their football club, they’ll talk about this night on the banks of the Tyne for many, many years. Thanks for spending it in our company.

90th minute+4: PSG have a free-kick on the edge of the box. Newcastle clear. There’s a minute of stoppage time to go now. Black and white flags flying everywhere. 

90th minute+1 GGGGOOOOAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!!!! Fabian Schar!!!!!

FABIAN SCHAR BRINGS THE HOUSE DOWN!!! What a way to cap a magnificent performance. In the name of consistency PSG aim a rubbish pass out of defence, Schar slides into midfield to win it, takes aim from the best part of 30 yards and crashes it into the top corner. Nothing Donnarumma could do about that one.

86th minute: This is more like where Mbappe wants to be, inside the box and drawing Newcastle attention. He cuts it back to Vitinha, who blazes over from outside the box to much merriment.

85th minute: Mbappe, who has existed increasingly on the margins of this one, takes aim from about 30 yards. He’s claiming a corner. In reality it was just a rubbish shot.

83rd minute: Lascelles now, with a stirring and perfectly timed challenge on Barcola. He’s only playing because Sven Botman is injured and has been immense.

82nd minute: Newcastle’s defence have stood up to everything thrown at them since conceding. Schar, who has been magnificent, gets in the way of a dangerous Hakimi cross.

75th minute: Ooohhhh, more like it from Dembele. The PSG winger has had a poor evening but catches this right-footed shot sweetly. Nick Pope saves well but it’s a good job the ball wasn’t much further away from him because that shot was travelling.

71st minute: Almiron makes way with a knock, meaning an early end to a night he’ll never forget. Murphy comes on.

70th minute: Gordon flies in on Marquinhos, who I’ve seldom seen so discomforted. He got a bit of the ball but the referee decides there was excessive force at play and books the England U21 winger.

69th minute: Dembele darts onto a superb raking ball from Hakimi. He can’t quite shake Lascelles though and duffs his shot wide of the near post. He’s really not had a great night.

65th minute: Changes in midfield for each side as Vitinha replaces Ugarte and Tonali makes way for Anderson

59th minute: PSG corner worked out to about 25 yards where Hakimi cracks one. Isak bravely blocks and the follow-up corner comes to nought.

56th minute: GOOOOAAAAALLLLLLL!!!! Lucas Hernandez!!!

Game on? PSG pop the ball around nicely outside the Newcastle box and Zaire-Emery chips a nice pass over the home defence. Hernandez darts onto it to convert and, after a VAR check for offside, the goal stands.

55th minute: A decent Mbappe free-kick delivery skips across the Newcastle box and out for a goalkick. Bradley Barcola is coming on for the hosts.

50th minute: GOOOOAAAAALLLLLLL!!!! Sean Longstaff!!!

Ohh, Gianluigi Donnarumma. The PSG goalkeeper won’t want to see that again. Trippier plays a lovely pass inside from the right, a pass that looks even better on account of no visiting play bothering to track Longstaff. He strikes it firmly but the shot goes through Donnarumma. This could get very ugly for PSG now.

46th minute: We’re back. No changes for either side. Will PSG stick with the same shape?

Halftime: Guimaraes gets himself a fairly needless booking but that’s about the only thing that’s gone wrong for Newcastle here. Almiron and Burn have them in a 2-0 lead and they’re good value for it. PSG having one of those hideous PSG on the road nights in the Champions League and Luis Enrique has some work to do. Fielding a midfield during the second half would be a start.

45th minute+2: We’re into seven minutes of injury/faffing about time. Pope is out to paw away a free-kick. Newcastle won’t want to hand their illustrious visitors any lifelines.

GOOOOAAAALLLLL!!!! Dan Burn!!!!

Newcastle in dreamland. Replays confirm that Guimaraes was onside. That took a bizarrely long time given we have semi-automated offsides in the Champions League. Perhaps they were checking for a handball as it was all going in that PSG box. But after the weekend, we shouldn’t really be complaining about a correct decision that takes a while, eh?

40th minute: Guimaraes was flagged offside, It’s tight. Donnarumma’s save might have been behind the line. It seems it might have been as we’re having a look at the offside. If Guimaraes is onside, this is 2-0…

39th minute: Almiron wins a free-kick in a dangerous area. JHe;s been excellent. Trippier delivered and there’s chaos in the PSG box. Almost an own goal, Guimaraes chips to the backpost and Donnarumma makes a stupendous dave from Burn. Or does he???

36th minute: Isak is bandaged up, Looney Toons style and ready to come back on.

33rd minute: Isak is down for treatment after taking a blow to the head. It looks like there’s a bit of blood. Let’s hope he’s okay. Newcastle are already without Callum Wilson through injury so Howe will have to be creative in terms of his attack if Isak has to come off.

30th minute: Hakimi ventures into the Newcastle half and finds Dembele. The winger cuts a pass back into midfield but there’s no one there in a PSG shirt because Luis Enrique hasn’t really picked a central midfield. Newcastle come away with it. Howe winning the tactical battle right now.

25th minute: Marquinhos, usually a picture of composure at the back for PSG, is all over the place. He’s spooked into giving a corner away. Almost 2-0 from Schar. One from the training ground and Trippier cuts a low corner back to about 15 yards. The Switzerland defender hits is sweetly first time and it flies just wide. Donnarumma didn’t sniff that.

23rd minute: Newcastle back off Zaire-Emery. They might not do that again. The teenager fizzes a vicious shot just beyond the right-hand post.

21st minute: Dembele has a look at Burn but the big Newcastle left-back stands firm to make the tackle. He gives it some to the crowd too.

17th minute: GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!! Miguel Almiron!!!

Roof off at St James’. Marquinos make a mess of his chipped pass out from his own box. Guimaraes intercepts and Isak is in. Donnarumma saves well but Almiron runs around the rebound the steer across the Italy No.1 and in.

16th minute: Urgate, to the surprise of no one in particular decides it’s slide tackle weather and ploughs into Almiron. He gets a stern talking to from the referee before Trippier smacks the free-kick into the PSG wall.

13th minute: Steady rain coming down now, which adds to the atmosphere. Don’t ask me how. I’m not Michael Fish. Here’s Almiron, who lines one up from 25 yards and blasts over. He’d maybe be better firing one along the ground given the conditions right now.

5th minute: Big chance for PSG. It’s should really be 1-0. Mbappe comes deep and motors in from the left with menace. He picks out Dembele at the back post. The ex-Barcelona man takes on the shot on the volley but he had lots of room and might have done better than fizzing a shot just wide.

3rd minute: That’s slack at the back from PSG and Gordon closes Marquinhos down. He doesn’t manage to win the corner but whips up the crowd behind the goal as if he’s just scored. They need little encouragement. 

1st minute: Newcastle look to get on the front foot, with Tonali slotting a pass down the left for Gordon to chase but Hakimi shepherds it away from danger.

2 mins prior to KO: Out they come to a cacophony of noise. The players line up for the Champions League anthem. Mbappe takes it all in and a grin peels across his lips. Reckon he’s up for this occasion.

5 mins prior to KO: The flags are out, the tifo is up and it’s a stirring sea of black and white at St James’ Park. The teams are in the tunnel.

10 mins prior to KO: There is, of course, a wider context to this game. It’s not just Newcastle against Paris; it’s Saudi Arabia against Qatar – two ownership models that have changed the faces of the clubs they run and, as a consequence, the game itself. Relations between the neighbouring oil states have improved since the 2017 Gulf blockade, but there’s the unusual element of local pride in the corridors of power being at stake tonight.

30 mins prior to KO: There’s an almost-terrifying amount of attacking talent in that PSG lineup, but teams geared for all-out attack don’t always succeed on this stage. Newcastle knuckled down to grind out a point at Milan a couple of weeks ago and there are likely to be more periods of suffering for Eddie Howe’s men. But when they do get on the ball, and they can be lethal in transition, Newcastle should have space for the lines of Gordon, Isak and Almiron to exploit, most likely into open spaces picked out by the playmaker Tonali.

50 mins prior to KO: This is the PSG XI. Kylian Mbappe, Randal Kolo Muani, Goncalo Ramos AND Ousmane Dembele. Luis Enrique isn’t messing about.

1 hour prior to KO: The teams are out. Newcastle line up as expected. One change from the weekend, with Sandro Tonali replacing Elliot Anderson.

1 hr 30 mins prior to KO: Of course, we can expect the Newcastle fans to be in fine voice on their Champions League return, but the PSG Ultra’s aren’t just on Tyneside to make up the numbers.

2 hours prior to KO: Hello and welcome to the Sporting News’ live coverage of Newcastle United vs Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League. This should be a lively one.

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Newcastle vs PSG lineups, team news

Joelinton, Sven Botman, Harvey Barnes and Joe Willock are all out of action, with Callum Wilson also unable to make the bench after a late fitness test.

Jamal Lascelles covers for Botman in central defence once more, with Sandro Tonali replacing Elliot Anderson in the midfield three.

Newcastle lineup (4-3-3, right to left): Pope (GK) — Trippier, Schar, Lascelles, Burn — Guimaraes, Longstaff, Tonali — Almiron, Isak, Gordon

Defensive pair Presnel Kimpembe and Nuno Mendes are out injured until the start of 2024 and Spain international Marco Asensio misses out with a knee problem.

Kylian Mbappe has shaken off a slight injury worry and lines up in a four-pronged PSG attack on Tyneside.

PSG lineup (4-2-4, right to left): Donnarumma (GK) — Hakimi, Marquinhos, Skriniar, Hernandez — Zaire-Emery, Ugarte — Dembele, Kolo Muani, Ramos, Mbappe

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Newcastle vs PSG live stream, TV channel

Here’s how to watch this Champions League match across selected areas of the world’s major regions:

Region TV Streaming
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DAZN
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