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How costly will Lamine Yamal’s late, late, precocious equaliser successful past week’s first limb beryllium to be? Because nan point is, Barcelona person only mislaid 2 of their 37 location matches against English clubs and are unbeaten against them successful 14, ever since Craig Bellamy rocked up to play a small play backmost successful 2007. History isn’t Newcastle United’s friend here.
Or is it?! And that’s because Newcastle person mislaid only 1 of their past 10 Champions League matches; person mislaid nan 2nd limb successful only 1 of their past 10 European ties, winning seven; and person won 2 of nan 3 European ties successful which they drew nan first limb astatine home. Throw successful Barca’s wont this play of suffering immoderate really large off-days – beaten 4-1 by Sevilla, 3-0 by Chelsea, 4-0 by Atletico Madrid – positive Newcastle having nan unit to fuss Hansi Flick’s gung-ho precocious line, and Eddie Howe’s men won’t beryllium going to Camp Nou without hope. Kick-off is astatine 5.45pm GMT. It’s on!
