{"id":313655,"date":"2025-11-25T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313655\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:17:07","slug":"marseille-2-1-newcastle-nov-25-2025-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313655\/","title":{"rendered":"Marseille 2-1 Newcastle (Nov 25, 2025) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang<\/a> dented Newcastle United<\/a>‘s Champions League charge as Marseille<\/a> came from behind to claim their second win of the campaign.<\/p>\n

The Magpies led 1-0 at the Velodrome courtesy of Harvey Barnes’ sixth-minute opener, his third goal in four days after his match-winning double against Manchester City<\/a>, and were good value for it.<\/p>\n

However, they were undone inside five second half minutes when 36-year-old former Arsenal<\/a> frontman Aubameyang first capitalised on an error by goalkeeper Nick Pope<\/a> to level and then stabbed the Ligue 1<\/a> side ahead amid a much-improved display to snatch a 2-1 victory.<\/p>\n

Eddie Howe sprung a surprise by picking Jacob Murphy<\/a> and Tino Livramento to line up at wing-back ahead of a three-man defence, but his side made the early running with Marseille captain Leonardo Balerdi<\/a> just beating Anthony Gordon<\/a> to Barnes’ early cross and Bruno Guimar\u00e3es<\/a> seeing his shot from the resulting corner blocked.<\/p>\n

Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg had to clear Malick Thiaw’s fourth-minute header off the line as the visitors continued to press, and they were ahead two minutes later when Gordon helped on Sandro Tonali’s cross and Barnes confidently slotted home.<\/p>\n

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The hosts dominated possession as they looked for a way back into the game, but the Magpies’ well organised 5-4-1 formation repeatedly frustrated them, although Pope had to save twice in quick succession from Aubameyang as they started to make an impression with Mason Greenwood<\/a> the architect on both occasions.<\/p>\n

Tonali forced a 23rd-minute save from Ger\u00f3nimo Rulli<\/a> with a tame shot after his cross had been blocked, but Marseille’s 17-year-old midfielder Darryl Bakola<\/a>, making his first start for the club and a Champions League debut, was significantly less accurate from distance four minutes later.<\/p>\n

Rulli had to save from Joe Willock<\/a> after Tonali, not for the first time, had broken up play inside the opposition half with the visitors continuing to threaten on the counter, but Igor Paix\u00e3o<\/a> curled a 34th-minute attempt wide in an end-to-end encounter.<\/p>\n

Bakola was booked for simulation after going down as he rounded Fabian Sch\u00e4r<\/a> rather than shooting and Aubameyang should have levelled seconds later but headed woefully wide from Greenwood’s cross, before scooping a shot off target under pressure from Thiaw.<\/p>\n

Rulli denied Gordon as the half-time whistle approached and the Premier League<\/a> side went in a goal to the good at the break.<\/p>\n

However, they squandered the lead within 20 seconds of the restart when Pope raced from his line in an ill-judged attempt to beat Aubameyang to Bakola’s through-ball and saw the striker round him and finish superbly from an unlikely angle.<\/p>\n

It was 2-1 within five minutes when Aubameyang got ahead of Sch\u00e4r to toe-poke Timothy Weah’s cross past Pope at the near post, and it might have been three almost instantly when Hojbjerg fired straight at the keeper.<\/p>\n

Pope went some of the way towards redeeming himself when he kept out Greenwood’s 56th-minute piledriver, but Rulli had to be equally resilient to repel Willock’s rising strike and then substitute Anthony Elanga’s goalbound shot as Newcastle pushed for parity.<\/p>\n

Barnes curled a late attempt agonisingly wide and a lack of precision in the final third as time ran down proved costly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang dented Newcastle United‘s Champions League charge as Marseille came from behind to claim their second win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-313655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}