Newcastle United player ratings vs Borussia Dortmund: Too little, too late! Mediocre Magpies brought crashing down to earth by fantastic Felix Nmecha strike

Newcastle United's hopes of reaching the last 16 of the Champions League were dealt a heavy blow by Borussia Dortmund, who claimed a fully deserved 1-0 victory at a rain-soaked St James' Park on Wednesday evening.

The Magpies had gone into the game flying high at the top of Group F but they have fallen to third in the standings after succumbing to a solitary strike from Felix Nmecha, with BVB's No.8 doing an excellent Jude Bellingham impression by sweeping home a cut-back from Nico Schlotterbeck after a brilliant break that the latter had sparked with a terrific tackle on Anthony Gordon on halfway.

Newcastle fought gamely to try to turn the game around in the second half and struck the bar twice in the dying minutes, through the shoulder of Callum Wilson and a deflected effort from Gordon. However, the reality is that the hosts, who were second-best for the majority of the 90 minutes, deserved nothing out of a game that Dortmund would have won comprehensively had it not been for the first-half heroics of Nick Pope.

Below, GOAL rates all the Newcastle players on show on a disappointing night at St James' Park as Eddie Howe's strangely out-of-sorts team saw a nine-game unbeaten run come to an end...