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Barcelona V Newcastle: Champions League Last-16 Second Leg – Live

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The winner of this tie will play either Tottenham Hotspur or Atletico Madrid^† in the quarter finals in April. Both teams have four players who will miss the first leg of that tie should they pick up a booking tonight. Lamine Yamal, Fermín López, Gerard Martín and Marc Casadó are the four Barca players on the disciplinary tightrope; Joelinton, Sandro Tonali, Dan Burn and Joe Willock are the Toon quartet who need to take extra care.

^{† I did think about employing the hoary old strikethrough gag for “}~~^{either Tottenham Hotspur or}~~^{” up there. But last night}^{Sporting Club became only the fifth team in Champions League history to come back from a first-leg deficit of three goals or more}^{, joining Deportivo La Coruña, Roma, Liverpool, and Barcelona in the pantheon, so why not Spurs? Could something that’s happened just four times in 34 years occur twice in 26 hours? Thanks to the efforts of the current Spurs team? Let’s rule nothing out! Maybe there’s something in the air. But this is a matter for tonight’s Clockwatch, I’ve gone well off piste here.††}

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Barcelona V Newcastle: Champions League Last-16 Second Leg – Live

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