😱 Record-breaking: Newcastle lead 5-0 at half-time!

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·18. Februar 2026

😱 Record-breaking: Newcastle lead 5-0 at half-time!

Qarabag and Newcastle have been two of the surprise teams of the Champions League league phase, until the 'play-off' brought them together.

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The Magpies gave their rivals no chance, as after just eight minutes they were already leading 0-2 with goals from Thiaw and Anthony Gordon.

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But then came the record: Anthony Gordon scored a hat-trick, putting him at the top for the fastest hat-trick by an Englishman in the Champions League, in just 33 minutes.

Anthony Gordon has scored the fastest ever hat-trick by an English player in the Champions League 🤯 It took him just 33 minutes ⏰
– Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2026

Not satisfied with that, Gordon scored a fourth goal for himself and the final 0-5 with which they would go into halftime.

4 - Anthony Gordon is only the second player in UEFA Champions League history to score four goals in the first half of a game, after Luiz Adriano for Shakhtar Donetsk against BATE Borisov in October 2014. Another.
– Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2026

With this result, Newcastle matched Bayern for the fastest 5-0 lead in a single half in Champions League history.

5 - Newcastle are only the second side ever to lead a UEFA Champions League knockout stage game by 5+ goals at half-time, after Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals v FC Porto in April 2015 (also 5-0). Futile.
– Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2026

And now, what will Qarabag do?

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.

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