Barnes brace off the bench keeps alive knockout hopes

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Anthony Gordon set the Magpies on their way with his fourth goal in three game's in this season's competition, but it was Barnes, a 63rd-minute replacement for the excellent Jacob Murphy, who sealed the points with assured 71st and 83rd-minute finishes to hand head coach Eddie Howe just a second win in nine attempts over opposite number Jose Mourinho. After a positive start by the Portuguese side, Antonio Silva arrived in the nick of time to take Murphy's eighth-minute cross off Jacob Ramsey's toe in front of goal and Dan Burn's header from the resulting corner was hacked away as black and white shirts prepared to pounce.

Goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin was called upon for the first time to save Murphy's 10th-minute shot after an enterprising run to the edge of the area, but opposite number Nick Pope was stretched much further five minutes later. However, he was finally beaten 13 minutes before the break when Guimaraes slid the ball into Murphy's run and he picked out Gordon in the middle to side-foot home.

Pope had to claw away another Lukebakio attempt two minutes before the break after the visitors had broken, with Trippier appealing in vain for a free-kick at the other end, but the home side went in at the break with their advantage intact. Guimaraes saw ambitious appeals for a 68th-minute penalty waved away by referee Szymon Marciniak, but the Magpies increased their lead with 19 minutes remaining when, after claiming Lukebakio's cross, Pope hurled the ball beyond the halfway line and, with Silva failing to cut it out, Barnes raced away to shoot past Trubin off the foot of the far post.