{"id":231678,"date":"2025-10-22T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231678\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:48:17","slug":"champions-league-reaction-arsenal-manchester-city-newcastle-win-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231678\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League reaction: Arsenal, Manchester City, Newcastle win in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis &#8211; Barnes and Gordon step uppublished at 10:43 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:43 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Newcastle 3-0 Benfica<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2b1db557-7a8b-47e7-96ee-d8afd7f81c1f.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Ciaran Kelly<br \/>BBC Sport reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Newcastle celebrate one of their three goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9c611419-6b4c-4345-85d0-d3a969d902b3.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nick Woltemade has made an impressive start to his Newcastle career, but the German has had to shoulder the goalscoring burden very quickly since his \u00a369m move from Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woltemade has scored four of Newcastle&#8217;s past five goals in the Premier League and they needed others to step up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In this competition, both Gordon and Barnes have done so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After scoring his first ever Champions League goal in the 2-1 defeat against Barcelona, which ended up proving a mere consolation, Gordon followed that up with a couple of penalties in the 4-0 rout of Union Saint-Gilloise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But this was his most crucial contribution yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St James&#8217; was tense, nervy even, after Newcastle escaped a couple of scares following Lukebakio&#8217;s efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the momentum of the game and, indeed, the atmosphere changed once Gordon opened the scoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And what about Barnes?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like Gordon, he has yet to find the back of the net in the Premier League this season but has also come alive in Europe, scoring three goals in three appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woltemade may have failed to find the back of the net, but it did not matter because his team-mates stepped up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Analysis &#8211; Barnes and Gordon step uppublished at 10:43 BST 10:43 BST Newcastle 3-0 Benfica Ciaran KellyBBC Sport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-231678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}