Champions League round-up: PSG snatch late win at Barca, Dier scores late to deny Man City

PSG's Fabian Ruiz celebrates with Achraf Hakimi. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Newcastle boss Eddie Howe is confident there is more to come from record signing Nick Woltemade after the striker opened his Champions League account in Brussels.

The 23-year-old, a £69million summer acquisition from Stuttgart, scored for the third time in four starts in the Magpies' 4-0 victory at Union St-Gilloise.

The German provided a further riposte to those - principally Bayern Munich executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge - who have questioned his price tag.

Head coach Howe said: "His potential is high. It is an exciting start for him and he's done really really well and more importantly he is willing and he wants to do the work and he wants to improve.

"It is difficult to put a percentage on what he is right now but there is more to come and there will be more to come physically and more to come tactically as we go through the journey together with him.

"We will be doing a lot of physical work with him to get him robust enough for the Premier League week in week out."

It was Woltemade who took credit for the opening goal when he flicked Sandro Tonali's shot on to defender Kevin Mac Allister, who unwittingly deflected it past his own keeper, but Union's fortunes were to dwindle further as the evening wore on.

Fedde Leysen's clumsy lunge at Anthony Elanga allowed Anthony Gordon to double his side's lead from the spot two minutes before the break and he repeated the feat with 64 minutes gone after Leysen had been adjudged to have handled after a VAR review.

Woltemade appeared keen to take at least one of the spot-kicks and, although Gordon prevailed, Howe had no issue with that.

He said: "I love it. The best strikers I've worked with want to score. Even if there is a directive, they don't care. They want to score. They want that responsibility. I've got no issue with that at all."

Substitute Harvey Barnes put the icing on the cake with the fourth 10 minutes from time to cap a fine trip to Brussels after the Magpies' opening defeat to Barcelona.

In the other early kick-off, Qarabag made it two wins out of two with a 2-0 home victory over Copenhagen, a week after their 3-2 triumph at Benfica.

Meanwhile Goncalo Ramos struck a 90th-minute winner as Paris Saint-Germain beat Barcelona 2-1 in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Defending champion PSG trailed 1-0 at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys. But even without its star trio of forwards Ousmane Dembele, Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, the French giant had enough to make it two wins from two in its title defense.

Eric Dier scored a controversial 90th-minute penalty to deny Manchester City as Monaco twice came from behind in a 2-2 draw at the Stade Louis II.

Erling Haaland's first-half brace had put City on course for a second consecutive win to start this season's Champions League campaign, with Jordan Teze's superb strike having cancelled out his first goal.

But City failed to kill the game off and, with five minutes left to play, Dier and Nico Gonzalez tussled as they tried to get on the end of a free-kick. Replays showed Gonzalez, with his boot raised, got the ball first but also struck the former Tottenham defender before he sent Gianluigi Donnarumma the wrong way.

Finally Bayern Leverkusen were held to a 1-1 draw by PSV Eindhoven, Borussia Dortmund defeated Athletic Club 4-1, Rasmus Hojlund scored twice - both created by Kevin de Bruyne - as Napoli held off Sporting Lisbon 2-1 while Juventus drew 2-2 away at Villarreal.