"It's a body blow [conceding last minute], but not fatal at the moment,"
"We're still in there fighting."
"I think maybe a bit of naivety with a minute to go on the clock, that we're still trying to chase a goal. In that moment, we needed to defend after we got our structure wrong from that position, and we got punished."
"I think the lads gave everything under difficult circumstances after the extra time on Saturday [in the FA Cup penalty shoot-out win over Bournemouth], and there was a bit of fatigue in our performance, but I can't fault the players."
Newcastle lost 2-0 at the Etihad, with Antoine Semenyo opening the scoring and Rayan Cherki adding a stoppage-time second. A potential Erling Haaland goal was controversially ruled out after a lengthy VAR check for a subjective offside. The late second goal increases the challenge for Newcastle in the away second leg but does not eliminate the tie. The team showed signs of fatigue after extra time in a recent FA Cup penalty shoot-out win over Bournemouth. Newcastle had 10 shots to City's 11, three on target, and struck the woodwork twice; Yoane Wissa missed an early one-on-one chance.
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