Harvey Barnes urges Newcastle to outplay Barcelona again at Camp Nou | Newcastle United

Harvey Barnes believes Newcastle are primed for historic success in opposition to Barcelona after displaying they’re greater than able to dwelling with them within the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.

Barnes’s 86th-minute aim for 1-0 at St James’ Park on Tuesday was cancelled out by Lamine Yamal’s penalty with the final kick of stoppage time. However Newcastle will journey to the Camp Nou for subsequent Wednesday’s return with confidence, Barnes’s assertion that they had been the higher crew brooking little argument and reflecting the temper inside their dressing room.

Impressed by a driving efficiency from Lewis Corridor at left-back in opposition to Lamine Yamal, Newcastle dealt effectively with the stress of their first Champions League knockout sport. They restricted Barcelona to few clear possibilities and harried them to such an extent that their opponents needed to work extraordinarily onerous to ascertain any sort of passing rhythm.

The statistics confirmed Barcelona managed 9 pictures, two on the right track, and had an anticipated targets variety of 0.46 in open play. Though Newcastle didn’t create a lot by way of huge possibilities, they performed on the entrance foot – particularly early on and within the second half – and had loads of prospects. They’d 16 pictures, 4 on the right track. The problem for them within the second leg shall be to point out extra of a medical edge.

“It’s nonetheless broad open,” Barnes stated. “It will have been wonderful to go there with a 1-0 lead, however we’re degree. We’ve acquired an opportunity to take the sport to them and see the place we’re at. We’re a crew filled with self-belief and there are such a lot of positives to take. Subsequent week we’ll be bang up for it. For lots of the sport we had been the higher aspect, we managed huge components of it and appeared actually harmful.

“We’ve proven it time and time once more that once we play at our high, high degree we will compete with these high groups. There’s been too many events this season the place we’ve dropped beneath these ranges and it’s value us within the league, however within the Champions League we’ve hit our high kind.”

Barnes, who has scored 14 targets this season, six within the Champions League, was requested how he and his teammates had addressed the problem of the lofty reputations of their Barcelona counterparts.

“You’ve acquired to respect the standard that they’ve however not respect them on the pitch,” he stated. “We pressed them from minute one and tried to try this the entire sport. You may’t allow them to come right here, dictate the sport and present their class. You’ve acquired to make it horrible and ugly for them. We restricted their possibilities and restricted their ball in and across the field and that’s credit score to the entire crew.”