Barnes brace sees Toon disrupt Man City title momentum

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Nick Pope did well to get behind Rayan Cherki's angled seventh-minute drive as City set up camp in the Newcastle half but Donnarumma pulled off a spectacular one-handed save to keep out Nick Woltemade's powerful downward header from Jacob Murphy's inviting 13th-minute cross. Donnarumma came to the visitors' rescue once again with 26 minutes gone when, after Bruno Guimaraes, Sandro Tonali and Barnes had combined neatly to play him through, Woltemade was unable to find a way past the Italian.

Barnes passed up a glorious 31st-minute opportunity to put the Magpies ahead when he steered a driven Murphy cross wide of the post while Pope somehow kept out Haaland's snapshot from Nico O'Reilly's pull-back four minutes later. Foden sidefooted wide from Cherki's cross three minutes before the break, in the process failing to round off an incisive move he had started, but a pulsating half ultimately ended goalless.

They fell behind with 63 minutes gone after the hosts produced their first cohesive attack of the second half. City were level within five minutes when, after the Magpies had fail to deal fully with a Cherki corner, Dias blasted past Pope with a help of a deflection of Schar - but they were on level terms for just two minutes.