After Newcastle's 6-1 away victory against Qarabag, Newcastle defender Trippier and striker Gordon, who scored four goals in the game, were interviewed by CBS Sports. In the interview, they talked about the dispute over penalty kicks.
Congratulations to you all, everyone is smiling now, it's great to see you back together. What happened just now?
Trippier: Nothing special. Gordon completed a hat-trick, I wanted to take the penalty, but he is our penalty taker and he wanted to score, like everyone else.
Emotions can be a bit high on the field sometimes, but that's how it is. He scored 4 goals today, an incredible performance, and now we focused on the next game.
You wanted to take the second penalty, right?
Gordon: Yes. But I understand everyone's thoughts, I hope everyone can succeed, we are a team and we have to fight side by side.
I am an attacking player and also a penalty taker, so I want to score as many goals as possible. It is inevitable that emotions will run high, but he is one of my closest teammates, ever since I joined the club, he has helped me a lot. So it's okay.
You'll have to wear boxing gloves in training. You scored 4 goals for Newcastle tonight and are the first player in the club's history to score that many goals in a single European game. It must be great to have that record?
Gordon: The record is of course good, but I just want to score goals and ultimately win the game.
We won this game convincingly, it was our best performance of the season so far, which is more important than scoring goals.
It's great to get such a result away from home, this was supposed to be a very tricky game. We also saw their performance against Chelsea in the cup before.
Trippier: Completely agree. You can't take anything for granted, this team drew 2-2 with Chelsea before.
But our ability to seize opportunities today was excellent, and the front three's pressing was also in place. Once we play like this, we are a force to be reckoned with. We were leading 5-0 at halftime, but we still wanted more goals.
Obviously we don't want to disrespect anyone, but we are just extremely efficient, everything today was incredible.
Your away record has been difficult in the past, but now you have won three consecutive away games. What qualities does this say about the team?
Gordon: I am proud of everyone. Football is sometimes very emotional and fickle, and people will praise or criticize you depending on your performance.
It is very important to go from the difficulties we have experienced to where we are now, which shows our character. But football changes quickly, and we must maintain momentum, because the situation can also reverse just as quickly.
This is a huge step for Newcastle to advance to the Round of 16. Going further, what would it mean for you players and for this club?
Trippier: First of all, we must be extremely grateful to the fans. We know and respect them, and they made five or six trips to get here.
Before the game, we knew that we had to put on a good performance for them. We haven't reached the Champions League knockout stage for over 100 years, we know that, but we're taking it one game at a time.
The schedule is very tight, but we have no excuses, and there is a crucial game against Manchester City this weekend.
It's all worth it for the fans to travel 5,000 miles back and forth. We saw you celebrating with the fans at the end.
Gordon: They deserve this result. As far as I know, their journey was too difficult, making three or four transfers to get to the game.
So we are very grateful to them, they have always been great. Especially tonight, after such a hard journey, I hope they can go home happily.