Papiss Cisse clinched a last gasp win on aggregate, and on the night, in the third minute of injury-time with a towering header that put his side through to the last eight.

Guus Hiddink’s 10-man Anzhi Makhachkala forced Newcastle United into extra-time as a goal stubbornly refused to materialise on Tyneside.

Alan Pardew’s side required some stellar defending from the impressive Steven Taylor to keep them in the game during the first half but following Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalez’s second half dismissal for two bookable offences, the Russians were left clinging on.

Newcastle has a good period of pressure in the second half, but they needed to be mindful of Anzhi’s counter-attacking pace, although the wind was rather removed from Russian sails when Carcela-Gonzalez was sent off for his second bookable offence, namely an unnecessary foul on Massaido Haidara.

It came a matter of minutes after Carcela-Gonzalez had collected his first yellow for pulling Cheik Tiote back as the Ivorian broke.

Danny Simpson was spotted driving away from the ground in an apparent huff before kick off after seemingly discovering that Davide Santon would be occupying the right back slot he had hoped to fill. If that disappointed Alan Pardew, Newcastle’s manager must have been delighted by the Anzhi team-sheet. Willian, Guus Hiddink’s dangerous Brazilian forward, had not recovered from the hamstring injury sustained during last week’s 0-0 draw in Moscow between these teams.

Taylor, who seemed to be getting in the way of almost every Anzhi attack, came to the rescue again after Tiote squandered possession as the game swung from end to end.
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