Olympiakos 1-3 Newcastle

Goalflashes and major incidents (KO 1700 GMT):

1849: FULL-TIME Olympiakos 1-3 Newcastle
Olympiakos' 80th birthday celebrations are left in tatters as Newcastle take a two-goal lead back to St James' Park for the second leg on Wednesday, 16 March.

1845: Newcastle dominate possession in the closing stages as the home side tire.

1841: Charles N'Zogbia comes on for Amdy Faye for the final six minutes for Newcastle.

1832: Patrick Kluivert touches a free-kick to Alan Shearer, but the Newcastle striker's low drive from 25 yards skids inches wide.

1831: Olympiakos captain Predrag Djordjevic is cautioned for arguing over a free-kick decision.

1826: GOAL Olympiakos 1-3 Newcastle
James Milner drives into the box down the left, jinks past a defender and pulls the ball back for Kluivert who sidefoots home first-time from 10 yards.

1822: Olympiakos respond by replacing Rivaldo with Giovanni while Anastasios Pantos comes on for Ioannis Okkas.

1817: Newcastle duo Kieron Dyer and Laurent Robert are replaced by Milner and Jermaine Jenas.

1812: Olympiakos enjoy the better of the opening 10 minutes of the second half, but fail to create any real chances of note.

1802: The referee emerges to yet more jeers and red cards from the Olympiakos fans as the second half gets under way.

1746: HALF-TIME Olympiakos 1-2 Newcastle
The sides leave the pitch to a chorus of boos while numerous plastic bottles are thrown from home supporters onto the pitch.

1743: SENDING-OFF Athanasios Kostoulas (Olympiakos)
Olympiakos are reduced to nine men when Kostoulas is shown a second yellow card for a foul on Nicky Butt.

1734: GOAL Olympiakos 1-2 Newcastle
Robert is felled on the edge of the area and the Frenchman gets up and curls the free-kick past a motionless Antonios Nikopolidis into the top left-hand corner.

1722: Stephen Carr is booked for a wayward challenge.

1717: Robert's left-wing corner is met powerfully by Shearer, but the Newcastle striker's header is cleared off the line by Dimitrios Mavrogenidis.

1715: GOAL Olympiakos 1-1 Newcastle
Andy O'Brien is shown a yellow card for tugging Ieroklis Stoltidis' shirt in the box and Djordjevic fires the penalty past Shay Given's despairing dive.

1712: GOAL Olympiakos 0-1 Newcastle
Shearer blasts the resultant spot-kick into the top left-hand corner after Dyer is fouled in the penalty area.

1711: SENDING-OFF Grigorios Georgatos (Olympiakos)
The hosts are down to 10 men as Georgatos is shown a straight red for appearing to nudge Dyer as the Newcastle midfielder tries to head into an open goal.

1700 GMT: The game kicks off in Greece.

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Team news:

Newcastle boss Graeme Souness makes three changes to the side that beat Liverpool 1-0 on Saturday.

Andy O'Brien replaces the cup-tied Jean-Alain Boumsong in defence, while Nicky Butt replaces Lee Bowyer in midfield and Patrick Kluivert is preferred upfront to Shola Ameobi.

Brazil star Rivaldo plays for Olympiakos after shaking off an ankle injury.