Newcastle v Qarabag, Inter v Bodø/Glimt: Champions League playoff second legs – live

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GOAL! Atletico Madrid 2-1 Club Brugge (Cardoso 48); agg 5-4

For the fourth time in the tie, Atleti go into the lead! Johnny Cardoso meets a half-hearted header on the edge of the Brugge D. He takes a touch before whipping a low shot into the bottom left. It wasn’t tight in the corner, and so once again Simon Mignolet may have done better, but it was hit pretty sweetly nonetheless.

For the completist, here are the team-sheets from Madrid. There were no changes during the first half … and none at the break either. The second half is underway at the Metropolitano.

Atletico Madrid: Oblak, Llorente, Pubill, Hancko, Ruggeri, Simeone, Johnny, Koke, Baena, Sorloth, Alvarez.
Subs: Le Normand, Lookman, Vargas, Molina, Lenglet, Almada, Griezmann, Mendoza, Gimenez, Musso, Esquivel.

Club Brugge: Mignolet, Sabbe, Ordonez, Mechele, Seys, Stankovic, Forbs, Vetlesen, Vanaken, Tzolis, Tresoldi.
Subs: Campbell, Lemarechal, Diakhon, Spileers, Siquet, Nilsson, Osuji, Vermant, Meijer, Sandra, de Corte, Jackers.

HALF TIME: Atletico Madrid 1-1 Club Brugge (agg 4-4)

The tie at the Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid has reached its three-quarter mark. Or has it? We’ll have to reassess if this goes to extra time, which it may well do, because Atleti simply can’t shake off Brugge at all. Alexander Sorloth gave the hosts the lead on 23 minutes, Simon Mignolet failing to deal with a shot from the edge of the box that squeaked into the bottom left. But Joel Ordoñez headed home from a corner after 36 minutes, after which Hugo Vetlesen missed two big chances to put Brugge ahead in the tie for the very first time. Second half promises fun!

Preamble

This was going to be a standalone MBM of the second leg between Newcastle United and Qarabag. But, well, y’know.

Good evening and welcome, then, to the wonderful world of Clockwatch. We’ll still take in events at St James’ Park tonight, but there will be three other Champions League matches on the go, one having already started, so we may as well keep checking in on those as well. Especially as last year’s runners-up are in grave danger of being dumped out by Bodø/Glimt, a club Inter dispatched from the 1978-79 Cup Winners’ Cup second round 7-1 on aggregate. Times change. Anyway, here’s tonight’s card, and here we go. It’s on!