Barcelona 7-2 Newcastle (8-3 agg), Champions League: Recap

BARCELONA, SPAIN - MARCH 18: Raphinha of FC Barcelona celebrates scoring his team's seventh goal during the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Round of 16 Second Leg match between FC Barcelona and Newcastle United FC at Camp Nou on March 18, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Eric Alonso/Getty Images) | Getty Images Barcelona are safely through to the Champions League quarter-finals, and they did it in truly spectacular fashion thanks to a 7-2 win over Newcastle in the second leg of their Round of 16 tie at Camp Nou. After a crazy first half the Blaugrana absolutely dominated the final period and absolutely destroyed the Magpies, with Raphinha putting on a show to lead the Catalans to a historic victory at home and book a spot in the Last Eight of Europe’s top competition.

Reactions & Obsevations The first half was pure chaos from start to finish. There five goals, controversy, loads of chances, some wild misses, and the type of back-and-forth, basketball action you’d come to expect from Hansi Flick’s Barça. Raphinha gave Barça the lead before Anthony Elanga equalized, and things were already crazy 15 minutes into the action.

Barça replied immediately through Marc Bernal, but a really bad giveaway by Lamine Yamal allowed Elanga to find the net for a second time. Elanga was Newcastle’s best player by far, and he got in behind João Cancelo and Gerard Martín on the left side of Barça’s defense time and time again. He also took a bad dive trying to earn a penalty, but the referee and VAR thankfully ignored his protests.

VAR could not ignore a very obvious penalty by Kieran Trippier on Raphinha just before halftime, however, and Yamal redeemed himself from the earlier error and a really bad miss inside the six-yard box with a confident finish from the spot to put the Catalans in front for a third time. Barça had more of the ball and the better chances but were still too vulnerable at the back, thanks in large part to individual errors that allowed Newcastle to counter-attack. The Blaugrana were also wasteful up front despite scoring three goals, with Robert Lewandowski especially poor when it came to his final product and overall play.