UEFA Champions League / 21 October 2025

Newcastle 3-0 Benfica

UEFA Champions League / League Stage - 3

3-0

Match Finished

Tue 21 Oct 2025 / 20:00 PT / St. James' Park

Was the result deserved?

The goals each side scored, next to the quality of the chances they created.

Newcastle3 scored / 2.63 expected

Benfica0 scored / 0.33 expected

Newcastle created the better chances and took them.

What is expected goals? Every chance is worth a fraction of a goal depending on how good it was. Added up, it describes the quality of what each side created - not what the score should have been.

How the match unfolded

Newcastle above the line, Benfica below. Goals are filled circles, cards are squares, substitutions are small dots.

What happened, minute by minute

Kick-off, every goal and card, half-time and full time with the score at each, in the order they happened. Newcastle on the left edge, Benfica on the right.

Kick-off
🟨
Malick Thiaw
Yellow Card
17'
⚽
A. Gordon
Normal Goal / assist J. Murphy
32'
🟨
D. Lukebakio
Yellow Card
45'
Half-time1–0
⇄
OnJoelinton
OffJ. Ramsey
63'
⇄
OnH. Barnes
OffJ. Murphy
63'
⇄
OnF. Ivanović
OffA. Dedić
63'
⚽
H. Barnes
Normal Goal / assist N. Pope
70'
⚽
H. Barnes
Normal Goal / assist A. Gordon
83'
⇄
OnW. Osula
OffN. Woltemade
85'
⇄
OnA. Elanga
OffA. Gordon
85'
⇄
OnJ. Willock
OffBruno Guimarães
90'
Full-time3–0