Barcelona wanted Lamine Yamal’s penalty with the final kick of the sport to cancel out Harvey Barnes’s opener.
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Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal struck from the penalty spot with the ultimate kick of the sport to salvage a 1-1 draw with Newcastle United within the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie, cancelling out a late strike from Harvey Barnes.
Newcastle appeared set to take a slender benefit into the second leg after Barnes scored within the 86th minute, when he volleyed dwelling Jacob Murphy’s cross on Tuesday.
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However elation for the house followers turned to heartbreak when Malick Thiaw introduced Dani Olmo down within the field within the fourth minute of stoppage time, and Yamal fired the penalty into the underside nook as Aaron Ramsdale dove the fallacious manner.
Newcastle’s Joelinton thought he had scored earlier within the second half when he smashed dwelling the rebound of Barnes’s shot off the publish, however the linesman shortly raised his flag for offside.
The second leg is at Barcelona on March 18.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, Mario Lemina’s early diving header handed Galatasaray a 1-0 victory over Liverpool of their Champions League last-16 first leg in Istanbul, leaving the tie finely balanced after a compelling contest wherein either side noticed objectives disallowed.
The Turkish champions struck after seven minutes, when Lemina nodded dwelling after Victor Osimhen headed a nook again throughout aim, giving them a valuable benefit forward of the second leg at Anfield.
In Italy, Bayern Munich dismantled Atalanta 6-1 in a dominant Champions League last-16 first-leg efficiency on Tuesday, seizing management from the outset in Bergamo.
The guests surged right into a three-goal lead throughout the opening 25 minutes, leaving the house facet struggling to realize any kind of foothold within the contest.
In the meantime, Atletico Madrid tore Tottenham Hotspur aside in a shocking first-half blitz on Tuesday, powering to a 5-2 victory within the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie and leaving the Premier League facet with a mountain to climb in London.
The guests’ 22-year-old goalkeeper, Antonin Kinsky, endured an evening to overlook on his first look since October and solely his third of the season.
Two expensive errors from the Czech helped Atletico race right into a commanding lead, and he was substituted within the seventeenth minute by supervisor Igor Tudor instantly after Atletico’s third aim.
