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Nick Pope has been in outstanding form this season with Newcastle United.

After ten appearances so far in the Premier League and Champions League, the goalkeeper already has six clean sheets.

A stunning 4-0 away win against Union S-G still saw Nick Pope required to make some smart saves, despite the final scoreline.

Tuesday night against Benfica, would see a seventh clean sheet of the season for the Newcastle United number one go a long way to ensuring another valuable Champions League victory.

The ‘group of death’ two years ago saw Newcastle United so unlucky not to progress, cheated out of a win in Paris due to a disgraceful decision making by the referee and the VAR to award a ridiculous late penalty that Mbappe scored past Nick Pope. That gave PSG a draw and the French team rubbed it in when progressing instead of Newcastle, by making it to the semi-finals of the Champions League, whilst the other team (Borussia Dortmund) ended up losing finalists.

Talking of disgraceful decisions…UEFA have named the same referee and VAR for this Newcastle v Benfica match, who falsely denied United their win in that game in Paris.

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