Two years ago Sean Longstaff looked to be on his way out at Newcastle and seemed destined for a lower-division future, while Dan Burn could not be certain of a first-team place at Brighton.
Few crystal-ball gazers would have predicted that particularly unlikely pair not merely joining Miguel Almirón and Fabian Schär in scoring against Paris Saint-Germain here but utterly eclipsing Kylian Mbappé and friends as Newcastle’s first home Champions League game for 20 years concluded amid unbridled geordie joy.
