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Champions League reaction & highlights from all this week's matches; Chelsea draw while Man City & Newcastle win Newcastle 2-0 Athletic Club: Burn, with an outrageous swerving effort, and Joelinton score headers to lift Newcastle back into top eight and continue strong home form Your views: Chris says Dan Burn's header is 'the greatest in Champions League history' - do you agree? Richard says it's Messi's against Man Utd in 2009. Brendan picks two Liverpool goals Qarabag 2-2 Chelsea: Estevao & Garnacho score but Chelsea become the first English side to fail to beat Qarabag | Lavia suffers injury after just six minutes Man City 4-1 Borussia Dortmund: Foden scores twice as Man City move up to fourth in the table Premier League sides have won five of their six respective Champions League fixtures this week and have four teams in the top eight Click 'Get Involved' at the top of this page to have your say Written by Sam Drury, Holly Bacon & Adwaidh Rajan. But do you think Cenk Tosun would want to come back to the Premier League, Adrian? Click 'Get Involved' at the top of this page to have your say Chelsea spent all that money yet do not have a top class centre-back or centre-forward. Perhaps they should be looking at a certain Turkish team and their world class centre-forward? Adrian, Lincs Qarabag 2-2 Chelsea Nizaar Kinsella BBC Sport reporter at Tofiq Bahramov Stadium This video can not be played Why 'inconsistent' line-ups is impacting Chelsea performance Are Chelsea rotating too much? The Blues have made multiple line-up changes in all their recent matches and have tweaked the starting XI more than any other Premier League side this season. But, after they narrowly avoided an embarrassing defeat at Champions League minnows Qarabag, there were those questioning whether they might be overdoing the changes. The Blues, with a squad worth well over £1bn, were particularly poor in the first half, especially compared to the dominant 1-0 win away at Tottenham on Saturday. However, this was a very different starting 11. Just goalkeeper Robert Sanchez, full-backs Reece James and Marc Cucurella, and forward Joao Pedro started in North London. It was the fifth-consecutive match across all competitions where manager Enzo Maresca has made at least seven changes to his starting 11. No Premier League club has made more than Chelsea's 85 changes in 16 matches across all competitions this season. The constant changing has left Maresca open to criticisms of being too much of a 'tinkerman', an unwanted nickname once given to his compatriot Claudio Ranieri at Chelsea. Defending his approach, Maresca said: "When we make changes it is because we think the plan with the players that start is the correct one. "I think today, we start in the right way, we score the goal and then, again, we concede two goals that we can avoid. [Also] in their box, for the amount of times that we are there, probably we can be more clinical. "I think in the second half we were much better compared to the first, but again, every game is a chance for all of them to show the reason why they are here. " That seems like the ideal way to move things along and look at the talking points from Chelsea's draw at Qarabag last night. .. Click 'Get Involved' at the top of this page to have your say The only better Champions League header I can think of is Drogba’s against Bayern. Maybe slightly for the context, but they way it rattled off the bar… John, London Drogba header in Champions League final against Bayern Munich best header I’ve seen and this is coming from United fan! Omar Choudhury, Belfast Newcastle 2-0 Athletic Club Tim Krul Former Newcastle goalkeeper on Football Daily If you look at that Newcastle squad now there's a real fight for places and a competition there. I think that's what Eddie Howe wants. He doesn't want anybody sitting there expecting to play every week and I think you’ve got a good mix with that leadership group. Andy, if I wasn't so concerned about the odd looks I'd get in the office, I would be stood up and applauding. Remarkable header. Incredible save. Outside the box thinking. Tick, tick, tick. Just a fantastic shout. If you haven't seen it, folks, I highly recommend searching it out. Click 'Get Involved' at the top of this page to have your say Greatest CL header? It’s got to be Gregory Coupet’s backwards diving header to deal with his team-mate’s errant lob. And the follow-up save to deny Rivaldo was icing on the cake. Andy, Aberdeen Newcastle 2-0 Athletic Club Newcastle have only won four league games on their travels in 2025 and they have looked especially blunt of late. Howe's side have scored a quarter as many goals (two) away as they have at home in the league (eight), and bottom of the table Wolves are the only side to have netted fewer (one) on the road. Jacob Murphy's opener against West Ham was a rare example of this side being ruthless away from home in the league – just 26 seconds after Hammers captain Jarrod Bowen had struck the post. Though Newcastle have had more possession away (56%) than at home (47. 1%), according to Opta, Howe's team have had 30 fewer touches in the opposition box (110) and they have only had half as many shots on target (13) on their travels, which highlights the difficulties they have faced breaking teams down. Newcastle could at least fall back on their solidity as a base to build from earlier in the campaign following shutouts against Aston Villa, Leeds United and Bournemouth in their opening three away games of the season. But the visitors have since leaked five goals in just two matches versus Brighton and West Ham. That defensive effort starts with the press from the front, but Newcastle have won possession back on eight fewer occasions (16) away than at home (24), while much-lauded midfield trio Sandro Tonali, Joelinton and Guimaraes have been repeatedly bypassed on the road in recent weeks. Burn has spoken of the need to "be a bit more ugly", referencing how his side were "well-known a few years ago for something-housery". Click 'Get Involved' at the top of this page to have your say Re: 8: 10 - Benni Mc Carthy's header for Porto vs United (first goal that night wasn't too bad either) Liam, Cheshire Newcastle 2-0 Athletic Club Tim Krul Former Newcastle goalkeeper on Football Daily Newcastle want to challenge in every single competition - quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup, three wins on the bounce in the Champions League. Domestically they have to improve, they know that but I think they'll be right up there towards the end of the season. No doubt it was a brilliant header. He arrived at such pace that he was a slightly blurred on the photograph. .. Click 'Get Involved' at the top of this page to have your say I mean it's got to be Ronaldo v Roma hasn't it? The height he got on the jump and the power - it's outrageous. Richard Thackray, Bromsgrove Best headers in the Champions League? Has to be Cristiano Ronaldo for the Mancs against Roma, surely? ! I'm saying that as a Liverpool fan. Neil Mackie, Liverpool Newcastle 2-0 Athletic Club Ciaran Kelly BBC Sport reporter at St James' Park This video can not be played Burn scores 'majestic' header to give Newcastle United lead If ever a four-day period summed up Newcastle United's curious season. On Sunday, Eddie Howe's team suffered a bruising 3-1 defeat against struggling West Ham at London Stadium. It was a result that left travel-sick Newcastle languishing in the bottom half of the Premier League table. To think this side went on to leapfrog Real Madrid into sixth place in the Champions League standings following a 2-0 win against Athletic Club at St James' Park a few days later. It was their fifth consecutive home victory, but that was not cause for celebration for Howe. Sunday's trip to Brentford was not far from his mind as Newcastle look to finally address their away-day woes after failing to win on the road in the league since April. "It's hugely frustrating because I think we have a style of play and a method of play that works, that's really effective, " the Newcastle head coach said. "For whatever reason we have not been winning the games away from home that we should have. "Now we're sort of caught in that trap where it's becoming a topic of conversation and we're probably becoming more aware of it. " Newcastle 2-0 Athletic Club Tim Krul Former Newcastle goalkeeper on Football Daily That's the key - the reaction and how you deal with setbacks like clearly the weekend [3-1 defeat at West Ham]. Everybody realises that was not good enough. To be able then to play a Champions League game like they did against Bilbao tonight, a massive win. I think the Champions League fixtures have really given them that confidence. The home form clearly at St James' has been immense. I think Eddie Howe is more eager than anyone to get that away form up to that kind of level as well because if you matched the home and away form now I think they will be one of those teams to finish in the top eight. They clearly have to improve the away form. Click 'Get Involved' at the top of this page to have your say Never seen a ball curl that much without being kicked, I don't think Burn meant to do it which makes it even better. Well done to the Newcastle squad as a whole last night, certainly a bounce back from West Ham. Harry, Manchester Newcastle 2-0 Athletic Club Ciaran Kelly BBC Sport reporter at St James' Park You could detect the irritation in Dan Burn's voice when he said "everybody knows we will turn up" after Newcastle did anything but at London Stadium last time out. But the England defender led by example against Athletic Club as his side responded to their poor showing at the weekend. Though Burn is not known for scoring many goals, the 33-year-old popped up with one of the most important in Newcastle's recent history when he opened the scoring in the EFL Cup final last March. And this header brought back memories of that set-piece goal as he again linked up with Keiran Trippier, who has set up five of Burn's nine goals for the club. It was a move straight from the training ground. Burn initially took up a position outside the box alongside Athletic forward Robert Navarro before making a late run towards the back post just as Trippier took the set-piece. The 6ft 7in defender managed to avoid being picked up, after Joelinton and Malick Thiaw blocked off Athletic players Daniel Vivian and Jesus Areso, and directed a superb header in off the upright. No wonder the watching Alan Shearer was on his feet to applaud that one in the directors' box. It was a bullet header Newcastle's record goalscorer would have been proud of. While we're on the subject of headers, it probably makes sense to move onto the side that sparked this fun trip down memory lane. .. Steven Gerrard's header in Istanbul was good but think it's the situation and what it led to that puts it up there, Brendan, because I reckon Dida probably should have done better. I remembered the Luis Garcia one you mentioned being a beauty, though, and having just gone back to have a look and refresh my memory, I can confirm it absolutely was. Probably not his most memorable Champions League moment, mind. Looks well over the line to me, Jose. .. Click 'Get Involved' at the top of this page to have your say Greatest header in CL? Clear Liverpool fan here but. .. Luis Garcia v Anderlecht (from the 18yard line) and Gerrard v AC Milan (Istanbul) are two headers I can think that are better for both technique required and execution. Love Burn's one too though! Brendan Ward, Arbroath Last Updated 30th October 2025 at 15: 36 Please Note: All times UK. 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