Freddie Woodman shares what he and Newcastle star discussed after Milan

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For many Newcastle United players, Tuesday night was a landmark moment.

The Champions League meeting with AC Milan inside the San Siro would have been the pinnacle of many of their careers to date, with Sean Longstaff certainly being one of them.

An academy graduate who struggled when Rafa Benitez made way for Steve Bruce, the 25-year-old sat alongside two of Newcastle’s biggest signings of the PIF era in Bruno Guimaraes and Sandro Tonali for the goalless draw in Italy.

It caps off a remarkable turnaround in fortunes for the midfielder and it seems it’s something he discussed with former teammate Freddie Woodman.

What Freddie Woodman and Sean Longstaff discussed after Newcastle’s draw with AC Milan

Indeed, the former Toon goalkeeper is now impressing with Preston North End as they bid for a first promotion to the Premier League from the top of the Championship.

Woodman and Longstaff have played together for both Newcastle and on loan at Kilmarnock and, speaking to talkSPORT, the Preston stopper shared details of a conversation he had with Longstaff the morning after the Milan game.

“I got to speak to Sean Longstaff this morning,” Woodman told White and Jordan at 11.12am on 20/09/2023.

“We were saying ‘it wasn’t that long ago that we were sat in a smelly little flat in Kilmarnock on loan up there’, watching the Champions League and now he’s playing in the Champions League.

“It was quite a surreal moment to see a couple of my friends playing in the Champions League and especially a club like Newcastle, who are very close to my heart.”

Longstaff could well have won it in Milan

Longstaff had Newcastle’s first and only shot on target in the dying embers, forcing a late save out of stand-in goalkeeper Marco Sportiello.

Had that gone in, it would have been another sensational moment in his career.

Still, that was not his only contribution. As per WhoScored data, Longstaff was one of only four Newcastle players to play a key pass and his 62 touches trailed only Kieran Trippier from a Toon perspective.

Making three tackles (second behind Dan Burn) and contributing a completed dribble (joint-first alongside Alexander Isak), Longstaff certainly put a shift in.