Gordon scored four of the Magpies' goals at the Tofik Bakhramov Stadium to overtake Alan Shearer with the most goals scored for the club in the competition.

He now has an incredible ten Champions League strikes this term - second only to Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappé, who has netted 13 times - and the 24-year-old has hit 14 goals in all competitions so far, meaning 2025/26 is already his best season in black and white in terms of finding the scoresheet.

Gordon had already hit a hat-trick when he was brought down by home goalkeeper Mateusz Kochalski towards the end of the first half, and he admitted he was never going to pass up the opportunity to add to his tally - which he duly achieved by drilling his spot-kick into the top right corner of the net.

The England international appears to be revelling in his new central role and he spoke about that, and his hunger for both team and individual success, after the final whistle. Here are some of his post-match thoughts:

On hitting Qarabag for six...

"With all the preparation involved, the travel, the fans travelling - I imagine it's been difficult for everyone, but we're leaving on a very high note. I hope they go home happy, we're going to go home happy. It was a really professional performance from the boys.

"You can talk about the goals and stuff, but complacency is about attitude a lot of the time. I think our press from very early on in the game showed that we weren't going to be complacent, and we were rewarded because from the press, we got our goals and we got our chances."

On his performance and new role within the team...

"I love playing number nine in this team. It gives me opportunity to highlight the things I'm good at.

"I think there's been a bit of a perspective that it hasn't worked, which I disagree with. I thought it did work early in the season, but I just didn't score. I think my performances were actually really good, so I'm glad to just start getting the goals and assists.

"I feel like the manager's believed in me in this position, the staff have. Graeme Jones has put in tremendous amounts of work with me. He was a striker - he was alright! He's put in tremendous amounts of work to help me get in the right positions and score. I just didn't, and now I am."

On overtaking Alan Shearer as United's all-time leading Champions League scorer...

"Every player wants individual success, but more importantly it's about the team winning. We've come away from home; like I said, it's been difficult, the preparation, the travel, and most importantly, we went on a bad run, everyone sort of gives up on you.

"Football's a very high and low, emotional sport. You've got to show tremendous character to create the momentum that we have recently."

On demanding to take the penalty to score his fourth and the team's fifth...

"Listen, people know me by now. I'm that type of character. I want to score as many goals as I can, I want as much success as I can, because I want to help the team.

"It's partly individual selfishness, course, but you need that to want to achieve anything in life. But mainly it's about the team, because if someone else takes it and misses and they score one... I want to be responsible for putting the game in a better place for us."

On taking confidence into Manchester City at the weekend...

"Like I said, football is a very high and low sport, very emotional. So we can't get too high, we can't get complacent, we can't get too confident.

"We've got to continue doing the things we've been doing, which is working really hard for each other, working hard for the manager, working hard for the fans. They've travelled away, they've had three good away trips... hopefully (it will be) four."