Newcastle United boss Edddie Howe: “Powerful method to exit. Actually unusual to sum that up. Within the first half we have been wonderful, albeit each halves we did not defend correctly in key areas. Within the second half we weren’t pretty much as good.
“Psychologically, it was a tricky one for the lads. They’d that penalty proper earlier than half-time and scored fairly rapidly after half-time and psychologically, we did not recuperate.”
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On the penalty: “I would must see it once more after I’m in a extra managed state earlier than giving an opinion on it.”
On Barcelona: “It is exhausting to play in opposition to them however within the first half we managed it comparatively properly. A variety of counter-attack alternatives, nice illustration of how we play. First objective to gamers’ positioning, the second was a set play. Amongst all the nice play, we gave them two targets.”
“We’ve got a large sport on Sunday [at home against Sunderland], so no time to dwell or really feel sorry for ourselves. Enormous sport for our metropolis and membership, we have to give attention to that.”
Newcastle United goalscorer Anthony Elanga: “In the present day it was the errors that price us actually. The help we had from the followers was superb. Happy with the lads of how far we have come within the competitors. A disgrace we went out the way in which we did, however we are able to mirror on our errors and work on them for Sunday.
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“We performed very well within the first half. I believe we may’ve constructed on that within the second.
“On a private degree, it is good to attain. For me, I would like scoring targets to show into one thing to assist the staff. That is one thing I can construct on. Dissatisfied about the way in which we misplaced and the way we did, particularly within the targets we conceded. Cannot dwell an excessive amount of, we simply must look to the longer term.”
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Newcastle’s five-goal defeat is the joint-heaviest suffered by an English facet in a European Cup/UEFA Champions League match, together with Leicester 0-5 Porto (December 2016) and Tottenham 2-7 Bayern Munich (October 2019).
Newcastle’s Anthony Elanga is simply the second participant to attain twice in a UEFA Champions League away match at Camp Nou for an English membership, after Dwight Yorke for Manchester United in November 1998.