Borussia Dortmund v Newcastle LIVE: Result and reaction as Magpies lose crunch Champions League clash

Borussia Dortmund 2-0 Newcastle: Magpies qualification hopes left in the balance after frustrating loss in Germany

Newcastle face crucial UCL test at Dortmund

Niclas Fullkrug and Julian Brandt dealt Newcastle United’s Champions League hopes a potentially fatal blow as Borussia Dortmund completed the double over Eddie Howe’s injury-hit side.

Fullkrug’s first-half strike and Brandt’s effort 11 minutes from time secured a 2-0 Group F victory in front of a sell-out 81,365 crowd at Signal Iduna Park to go with their 1-0 success at St James’ Park two weeks ago.

But the outcome might have been very different had Joelinton not headed wide from point-blank range at 1-0 amid a concerted fightback by the Premier League side, who have now taken four points from as many games, three fewer than Dortmund.

Edin Terzic’s men will nevertheless feel they were good value for their win on a night when they bounced back from a nightmare 4-0 defeat by arch-rivals Bayern Munich on their own pitch in determined fashion, to the delight of their famous Yellow Wall.

Relive all the Champions League action below:

Borussia Dortmund vs Newcastle live

• Outclassed Newcastle left on the brink of anticlimactic Champions League exit
• Borussia Dortmund defeat Newcastle in the Champions League, leaving Magpies with work to do to qualify
• FT - Dortmund earn back-to-back victories against Newcastle
• 79’ GOAL! - Brandt scores on the counter (DOR 2-0 NEW)
• 56’ CHANCE! - Joelinton comes close but heads Livramento’s cross wide (DOR 1-0 NEW)
• 45’ CHANCE! - Joelinton’s headed effort is kept out (DOR 1-0 NEW)
• 26’ GOAL! - Fullkrug gives the hosts the lead (DOR 1-0 NEW)
• 15’ SAVE! - A tricky spell for Newcastle sees Pope called into action to stop Adeyemi’s effort (DOR 0-0 NEW)
• 13’ SAVE! - Pope denies Fullkrug, blocking the shot from range (DOR 0-0 NEW)

[7 November 2023 20:10 · Mike Jones]

Outclassed Newcastle left on the brink of anticlimactic Champions League exit

Newcastle United waited 20 years to play in the Champions League again and it feels safe to predict that it will not take them two decades to return, but an adventure threatens to end early. As Borussia Dortmund did a double over Eddie Howe’s team, the destroyers of Paris Saint-Germain could see their own hopes in ruins. The casualties from the group of death might include Newcastle, and if so, this may go down as a game too far, rendering their task too tough.

They had beaten Manchester United and Arsenal with weakened teams but there was no treble. Dortmund had been eviscerated by an Englishman, after Harry Kane’s hat-trick in Der Klassiker, but not an English club. Newcastle found it altogether harder than Bayern Munich to prosper at the Signal Iduna Park. If Newcastle are a buying club and Dortmund a selling one, the Bundesliga side may derive particular pleasure from the identity of two of their three goalscorers over 180 minutes that have transformed the group: Felix Nmecha, bought when Jude Bellingham was sold, at St James’ Park and Niclas Fullkrug, perhaps a belated replacement for Erling Haaland, in the rematch.

This competition has the capacity to reward the unlikely lads, as Dan Burn and Sean Longstaff had shown for Newcastle, but they do not have a monopoly on tales of endearing rises from relatively humble origins. Fullkrug was more accustomed to scoring in the German second division but, at 30, he had a first Champions League goal to add to the two he scored in last year’s World Cup. Julian Brandt, the classiest player on the pitch, completed victory on home soil and Dortmund, so timid in their opening night defeat to PSG, have seven points in three games since then, the six accrued against Newcastle forged from sweat.

[7 November 2023 19:50 · Mike Jones]

FT Dortmund 2-0 Newcastle

Borussia Dortmund move to the top of Group F with seven points from their three games. Newcastle remain in third and will be three points behind the German side heading into the next match against PSG.

The French champions face AC Milan at 8pm and will want to win and regain first place in the table.

[7 November 2023 19:36 · Mike Jones]

Full-time! Dortmund 2-0 Newcastle

90+3 mins: There full-time whistle goes with Borussia Dortmund victorious. The German side have been the better team in both legs and earn consecutive wins against Newcastle in these group stages.

The loss means that Eddie Howe’s men need a position result against PSG next time out to keep their hopes of reaching the knockout rounds alive.

It was a decent performance but a lack of squad depth, for multiple reasons, meant Newcastle couldn’t match the Bundesliga side.

[7 November 2023 19:33 · Mike Jones]

Dortmund 2-0 Newcastle

90 mins: There’s three minutes of added time to play.

[7 November 2023 19:33 · Mike Jones]

Dortmund 2-0 Newcastle

88 mins: Time is running out for Newcastle but they’re still giving it a go. Committing players up the pitch and trying to get the ball into the box.

Sean Longstaff floats a cross into the box but it’s too long for Miguel Almiron and the chance goes begging.

[7 November 2023 19:29 · Mike Jones]

Dortmund 2-0 Newcastle

85 mins: Fabian Schar goes on an enterprising run up the pitch but loses possession on the edge of the box. Dortmund boot it forward quickly with Brandt taking it down the left.

He flicks it into the box but Trippier get high to nod the ball away before it reaches Fullkrug.

[7 November 2023 19:25 · Mike Jones]

Dortmund 2-0 Newcastle

82 mins: Newcastle have to decide whether to stick of twist now. Is this game a damage limitation match of can they pull back the deficit?

[7 November 2023 19:23 · Mike Jones]

GOAL! Dortmund 2-0 Newcastle (Brandt, 79’)⚽️

79 mins: Newcastle have a free kick on the left wing. Kieran Trippier fails to beat the first man and Adeyemi pumps the ball long setting up a two-on-one counter attack.

Julian Brandt carries the ball forward, Tino Livramento chooses to mark Marcel Sabitzer instead of engaging but Brandt is confident.

He goes into the box and slots a low effort wide of Nick Pope and into the far bottom corner!

[7 November 2023 19:20 · Mike Jones]

Dortmund 1-0 Newcastle

75 mins: As Newcastle push for an equaliser, Dortmund are getting more opportunities to kill off this game. Brandt weaves into the box from the left, goes past Trippier and laces an effort over the top.

That would have been a good goal.

[7 November 2023 19:17 · Mike Jones]

Dortmund 1-0 Newcastle

72 mins: Tino Livramento has been brought onto the left-hand side for Newcastle and is called into action immediately. Sabitzer receives the ball and flies through the middle of the pitch.

He looks to play Karim Adeyemi in behind the lines but Livramento holds the forward at bay and allows Nick Pope to come off his line to claim the ball.