Newcastle 3-2 Barcelona

Champions' League Group Stage - 17/09/1997

Who can forget Tino Asprilla’s brilliant demolition of the mighty Barcelona.? What a player and what a performance! Keith Gillespie’s crosses for Tino’s two headed goals must be mentioned too, in my opinion they are amongst the finest pieces of wing play you will ever see.

This is what Kenny Dalglish had to say about the match…

"Tino will get all the headlines tomorrow and rightly so because he scored three great goals and caused them many, many problems, but every one of the players is a hero. They are all equally important because they went out there and battled really hard.

"We played really well in the first half and we've won 3-2, even though they gave us one or two scares at the end.

"After half-time you would expect them to come back and hammer us, and they did that. Credit them for that because they are a great team. But tonight we've got the three points and that's the most important thing.

"Its a great night for the chairman (Sir John Hall) and really it's a fitting accolade to him after he announced his retirement on Monday.

"We have not had that many big European nights so this will go down in recent times as one of the best. We have two more European nights to come at home and let's hope we can add to this. "People will respect Newcastle. If they don't then that's their problem - it's not mine. "We don't have anything to prove to people, we are what we are. The most important thing is to look forward and hope they can continue at that level of performance. "When you play against great teams - and Barcelona are a great team - there is no way you can afford to lose concentration as they are going to get back at you, at some time, somehow. "But the people out there did us proud. When they pulled it back to 3-2 they were under the cosh a little bit, but then the defenders came into their own and they made their contribution, just as the attackers had done in the first half. On Asprilla:

"He was a tremendous threat up front on his own. He does that for his country and he was great tonight. He won the penalty himself and the next two goals came from hard work by Gillespie finished off with two good headers."

Highlights can be viewed here https://youtu.be/qVE316eqqXE