Newcastle 1-2 AC Milan: Magpies suffer heartbreak as Rossoneri fight back dumps them out of Europe
AC Milan finished a dramatic second-fifty percent confrontation back as they beat Newcastle United 2-1 to dump the Premier League side out of Europe.
On a night when both sides pertinent 3 points to stand any chance of collective, aims from Christian Pulisic and also Samuel Chukwueze handed the Serie A side a critical 2-1 win which was not enough to extend their engagement in the tournament consequent a 1-1 stalemate between Borussia Dortmund and also Paris St Germain in Germany.
7-time victors AC Milan have the consolation of a Europa League detect while Newcastle, that took a 33rd-minute lead via Joelinton’s astonishment, slid out of Europe seamlessly after coating bottom of Group F in their initially Winners League campaign since 2002-03.
Goalkeeper Martin Dubravka drank off a bout of defect which owned intimidated his engagement to preserve his place in the crew via demonstrator Callum Wilson administering his initially commencing since malicious a hamstring throughout the 2-0 loss at Dortmund on November 7.
Such have been head coach Eddie Howe’s array priorities that only four of the men that begun the rescind component in September – Kieran Trippier, Fabian Schar, Bruno Guimaraes and also Anthony Gordon – did so on Tyneside.
St James’ resounded as an pregnant abode bunch played its part, and also Gordon’s early plight on complete-back Davide Calabria was supported practically as appreciatively as a impartial on a night when the stakes could scarcely have been greater.
Trippier crinkled a 6th-minute emission-kick over Mike Maignan’s crossbar after Pulisic owned bundled Gordon to the ground as the Magpies maintained their early severity, although the readers via seasoned demonstrator Olivier Giroud issuing a focal time, tremendously sagged their strategy proper into the arcade.
For all their formality, Newcastle were struggling to invent meaty chances and also Schar’s speculative 18th-minute power from range, which wandered high over Maignan’s crossbar, owned a touch of impatience around it.
Singularly, Fikayo Tomori owned to offer a superbly-timed intervention on his horribly own jabber to prevent Miguel Almiron from converting Joelinton’s cross two minutes later on.
Rafael Leao mauled a vaccination wide of Dubravka’s taken off consist of-up after Yunus Musah owned enhanced deep proper into assaulter county to feed him as the readers responded, but Maignan owned to pluck Almiron’s impartial-bound header from under his crossbar after he owned met Joelinton’s inviting cross.
But it was the Brazilian that penniless the stalemate when he ran on to Lewis Miley’s lay-off and also smashed a proper-footed vaccination past the powerless Maignan and also proper into the height edge previously rushing to the sideline to rejoice via Howe and also assistant Jason Tindall as the arena erupted.
The arcade descended proper into a scrappy tryst via both sides struggling to preserve possession as the fifty percent-time whistle come close to, and also it was the Magpies that inevitably led for the condiment stains much the happier.
Wilson picked out the caretaker via two initiatives and also Gordon discharged over from another via Newcastle peeking to kill the arcade off as description that Dortmund owned racked up rippled around the arena.
PSG’s equaliser minutes later on did tiny tiny fragment to discontinue the ecosystem, but spirits slumped via 59 minutes gone when the abode protection failed to tackle Leao’s taken off-wing cross and also Giroud teed up previous Chelsea midfielder Pulisic to level from chummy scope.
A much-builded Milan were inducing visibly added priorities via Leao in particular a continual complication, but substitute Alexander Isak sent out a dipping vaccination over via 23 minutes remaining and also Maignan owned to offer a superior conserve to referral Guimaraes’ drive on to his crossbar two minutes later on.
The woodwork came to Newcastle’s rescue 11 minutes from time when Leao’s vaccination came back off the consist of-up after Tino Livramento’s misstep owned stired up a pacy counter-power, but there was zero escape 5 minutes later on when Noah Okafor and also Luka Jovic coupled to placed fellow substitute Chukwueze to win it.
