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Newcastle United 2-0 Paris Saint-Germain - LIVE: Dan Burn DOUBLES Toon lead after lengthy VAR check as St James' Park goes wild in its first Champions League match for 20 years

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Newcastle 2-0 PSG

It took VAR ages to check the goal. Initially, Guimaraes was adjuged to have been offside by the linesman as he crossed for Burn, but as VAR checks for offsides in the Champions League unlike the Premier League, you have to wonder what was being checked.

'Unless the system had shut down for a second, I don’t know why it took so long [to award the goal],' says Jermaine Jenas on TNT.