Cisse swoops late again as Magpies seal last eight berth

Newcastle 1 Anzhi Makhachkala 0 (Newcastle win 1-0 on agg.)

Cisse swoops late again as Magpies seal last eight berth

Papiss Cisse repeated his injury-time heroics to head Newcastle into the Europa League quarter-finals as 10-man Anzhi Makhachkala finally succumbed.

The Senegal international, who fired the Magpies to a 2-1 Barclays Premier League win over Stoke on Sunday with a 92nd-minute strike, had to wait two minutes longer to power home Sylvain Marveaux’s inviting cross with the final touch of an intriguing contest.

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