Harvey Barnes Urges Newcastle To Outplay Barcelona Again At Camp Nou

Harvey Barnes believes Newcastle are primed for historical occurrence against Barcelona aft showing they are much than tin of surviving pinch them successful the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.

Barnes’s 86th-minute extremity for 1-0 astatine St James’ Park connected Tuesday was cancelled retired by Lamine Yamal’s punishment pinch nan past footwear of stoppage time. But Newcastle will recreation to nan Camp Nou for adjacent Wednesday’s return pinch confidence, Barnes’s assertion that they were nan amended squad brooking small statement and reflecting nan temper wrong their dressing room.

Inspired by a driving capacity from nan left-back Lewis Hall against Lamine Yamal, Newcastle dealt good pinch nan unit of their first Champions League knockout game. They restricted Barcelona to fewer clear chances and harried them to specified an grade that their opponents had to activity highly difficult to found immoderate benignant of passing rhythm.

The statistic showed Barcelona managed only 9 shots, 2 connected target, and had an expected goals number of 0.46 successful unfastened play. Although Newcastle did not create overmuch successful position of large chances, they played connected nan beforehand ft – particularly early connected and successful nan 2nd half – and had plentifulness of possibilities. They had 16 shots, 4 connected target. The situation for them successful nan 2nd limb will beryllium to show much of a objective edge.

“It is still wide open,” Barnes said. “It would person been astonishing to spell location pinch a 1-0 lead but we’re level, we’ve sewage a chance to return nan crippled to them and spot wherever we’re at. We’re a squad afloat of self-belief and location are truthful galore positives to take. Next week we’ll beryllium bang up for it. For a batch of nan crippled we were nan amended side, we controlled large parts of it and looked really dangerous.

“We’ve shown it clip and clip again that erstwhile we play astatine our top, apical level we tin compete pinch these apical teams. There’s been excessively galore occasions this play wherever we’ve dropped beneath those levels and it’s costs america successful nan convention but successful nan Champions League we person deed our apical form.”

Barnes, who has scored 14 goals this season, six successful nan Champions League, was asked really he and his teammates had addressed nan rumor of nan lofty reputations of their Barcelona counterparts.

“You’ve sewage to respect nan value that they person but not respect them connected nan pitch,” he said. “We pressed them from infinitesimal 1 and tried to do that nan full game. You can’t fto them travel here, dictate nan crippled and show their class. You’ve sewage to make it horrible and disfigured for them. We constricted their chances and constricted their shot successful and astir nan container and that’s in installments to nan full team.”