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"They have a style of play that does not suit us." This line from their manager before the game was described as mind games, but I think he was just genuinely terrified of what was going to happen.

Unsurprisingly getting lost down the page after a third win on the trot. Eddie has added almost £15m to the club's coffers in the last week. We're probably going to lose on Saturday and I hope everyone can accept that since he's paid off his league placement debt.

Just learned there's no coefficient points for a win in the playoff round. How annoying.

Imagine how empty that would have felt if it was a Conference League league game instead of a Champions League knockout though. Would be a glorified preseason match.

Eddie staying on brand with his 60 minute subs is hilarious. He wants more.

xG of 4.49 and Qarabag 0.00 16 shots, 11 on target, and 10 big chances Would be outrageous for a professional game of any level over 90 minutes, let alone a half.

I predicted we'd score at least 6 across the two legs. Can't decide if I should feel good about that or if I'm an idiot for putting such a low number.

I don't think he wanted it. I think he wanted it for someone else ... Woltemade presumably?

Have to side with Gordon here. 1) he's the penalty taker and this isn't exactly a preseason friendly despite the score 2) he won the penalty 3) not everyday you can score 4 in a half in the Champions League 4) he's probably coming off

Oh god, Gordon and Trippier fighting now.

There's going to be a Champions League knockout game at St. James' Park against either Barcelona or Chelsea. What a night that is going to be.

We might jsut be getting started

I think 5 goals is the record for a single player - Messi, Haaland, and Adriano. Gordon...?

I want to rest legs but I also want Newcastle United to be in the Champions League record books.

Champions League knockout record win is 7-0...

Good, we need to go up by 4 or 5 and rest some legs. Huge opportunity to help ourselves here.

Qarabag trailed 2-0 and 2-1 in their two 3-2 Champions League wins. Let's not mess around here.

How do we not have 4 or 5 goals?!

An incredibly pleasing balance of beauty and sloppiness there.

Miracle for them that it's only 2-0.

Has to score that

In the first game of the league phase they won 3-2 away to Benfica after going behind 2-0. In the three away games after that they lost by a combined 11-1 to Bilbao, Napoli, and Liverpool. In the four home games they W2, D1, L1 with a 9-8 aggregate score. Copenhagen is the only game of the 8 they didn’t concede 2+ goals. There’s probably a tangible impact to the travel that makes this trickier than it otherwise would be, but I think we’ll score at least 6 across the two legs.

Based on their CL games we're either going to win 5-1 or find ourselves in a multi-goal battle that leaves much to be done in the second leg.

That could have easily been 5 or 6. A very fun watch.

I think this is probably true, but also we could hammer them.