On Wednesday, Newcastle beat Paris Saint-Germain a 4-1 at St. James’ Park, the Magpies celebrate a dream come true by qualifying for the Champions League for the first time since 2011.
The goals scored by Miguel Almiron, Dan Burn, Sean Longstaff, and Fabian Schar helped make Newcastle’s first home game in Europe’s elite league for the past 20 years a memorable one.
The team managed by Eddie Howe has moved up to first place in what is often regarded as the most difficult Champions League group for this season’s draw.
PSG and Borussia Dortmund each picked up their first point of the season in a scoreless draw in Germany, giving both teams four points after their first two games. Newcastle leads PSG by one point after their first two matches.
The Saudi Arabian and Qatari sporting academies squared off against one another for the very first time in the competition that was held between their respective clubs.
Similar to how an inflow of finance from the Middle East has made PSG the preeminent power in French football over the past decade, a Saudi takeover that occurred two years ago at Newcastle has completely changed the club’s fortunes.
The manager of PSG, Luis Enrique, issued a warning before the game that Newcastle were the team no one wanted to see come out of the fourth pot of seeds, and the Premier League club demonstrated why this was the case.
Despite the fact that Luis Enrique was keenly aware of the threat that Newcastle posed, he courageously decided to go with a star-studded front four that included Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele, Goncalo Ramos, and Randal Kolo Muani.
It could have turned out quite differently for the French champions if Dembele’s well-struck volley off of Mbappe’s cross had found the back of the goal early on rather than going just inches wide of it.
But once the home team, who were cheered on by a rowdy crowd of 52,000, got their claws into the away team, they did not let go of their hold on them.
When they conceded the first goal 17 minutes into the match, PSG seemed to be the architects of their own demise.
According to jerrymusa.com a careless pass made by Marquinhos was picked off by Bruno Guimaraes, which provided Alexander Isak with an unobstructed view of the goal.
Gianluigi Donnarumma made a spectacular save to deny the Swedish player a goal, but Miguel Almiron was there to score with a curling shot into the far corner.