{"id":495553,"date":"2025-09-18T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495553"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:04:18","slug":"rashford-shines-in-barcas-2-1-win-vs-newcastle-at-st-james-park","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rashford-shines-in-barcas-2-1-win-vs-newcastle-at-st-james-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashford shines in Barca\u2019s 2-1 win vs. Newcastle at St James&#8217; Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona won their visit against Newcastle with 2-1 at St James&#8217; Park as Marcus Rashford was the hero for the victory of his team with his 2 goals in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half. The Magpies return to the Champions League after missing the tournament for a long time, but suffered a defeat in their opener.<\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> half was very interesting with a lot of attack from both clubs, but neither of them was able to score. The biggest chance for a goal in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 45 minutes came for the Magpies as Harvy Barnes shot from close range, but Joan Garcia saved his shot to keep the goalless draw.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, Barcelona took the lead after Jules Kounde\u2019s cross ended up on Marcus Rashford&#8217;s head, and he scored in the 58<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Only 8 minutes later, Rashford scored again, as this time his goal was phenomenal, with a shot outside the box, as the ball went into the top left corner of the net.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Job done in Newcastle \u2705 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RoLybYXJOn\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RoLybYXJOn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/1968781789175926801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the regular time, Anthony Gordon received the ball inside the box and made his team\u2019s trail only 1 goal, but in the 7 minutes of extra time, the Magpies failed to score another goal and to avoid the defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona won their visit against Newcastle with 2-1 at St James&#8217; Park as Marcus Rashford was the hero for the victory of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":495554,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,18576],"news_category":[142,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17560,18577],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Catalan side defeated the Magpies in their UCL opener.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495556,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495553\/revisions\/495556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495553"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495553"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}