Hardened Speed wary of PSV

NEWCASTLE midfielder Gary Speed will use the bitter lesson he learnt in this season’s Champions League to fuel his quest for UEFA Cup glory.

Speed and his team-mates were on a high when they returned from Serbia in August holding a 1-0 lead over Partizan Belgrade in the final qualifying round for Europe's elite club competition. However, Lothar Matthaus' men won by the same scoreline at St James' Park in the return leg and got the better of Newcastle in a dramatic penalty shoot-out to claim their place in the Champions League proper.

The memories of that night remain fresh in the minds of Robson's players, who head into the second leg of the UEFA Cup quarter-final clash with PSV Eindhoven tonight having returned from Holland last week with a creditable 1-1 draw and aprecious away goal.