{"id":4922,"date":"2025-04-20T01:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T01:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asport.com.ng\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2025-04-20T01:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T01:13:17","slug":"aston-villa-raises-its-head-and-upgrades-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asport.com.ng\/?p=4922","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa raises its head and upgrades Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday, the Villans largely defeated Newcastle (4-1) and are well placed to compete in the Champions League next season.<\/p>\n<div data-agora-connect-urls=\"{&quot;baseUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/connect.lefigaro.fr&quot;}\" data-component=\"fig-content-body\" data-context=\"was @visible\" data-id=\"bGVmaWdhcm8uZnJfXzFmMDFkNGUxLTRkMDctNmUzYS05ODA5LWVmNDY5MmQxNTMwZl9fTmV3c0ZsYXNo\" data-module=\"fig-body\" data-premium=\"false\">\n<p class=\"fig-paragraph\">Aston Villa hung on Saturday to his hope of competing in the next Champions League by clearly dominating Newcastle (4-1), the third of the Premier League which is ahead of two points to five days from the end. The Birmingham club achieved a new show of force at Villa Park four days after a 3-2 victory against Paris Saint-Germain which, however, had not made it possible to avoid elimination in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fig-paragraph\">The team of Unai Emery, sixth with 57 points, can hope to find her next year after defeating Newcastle (3rd, 59 pts), a team yet in full confidence before the meeting.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fig-body-heading\" id=\"subhead-e4084a67-ce56-44ba-80cb-d37e1641c9a5\">Winning coaching<\/h2>\n<p class=\"fig-paragraph\">The Spanish coach set up striker Ollie Watkins, overwhelmed for a month by competition from Marcus Rashford, and the Englishman seized the hand stretched brilliantly. He marked after 33 seconds (1st, 1-0), found the amounts of a strike (5th) and the head (27th) and finally delivered a decisive pass for Ian Maathsen (64th, 2-1), preferred to Lucas worthy as left side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fig-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Fabian Sch\u00e4r has equalized with a piqued head spent between the legs of Emiliano Martinez (18th, 1-1). But Emery&#39;s coaching did miracles in the second half. Entering in the 72nd minute, Jacob Ramsey and Amadou Onana had an immediate impact: the first focused hard and pushed Dan Burn to score against his camp (73rd, 3-1), the second cleaned the skylight of Nick Pope (75th, 4-1), beaten twice in the space of two minutes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] This Saturday, the Villans largely defeated Newcastle (4-1) and are well placed to compete in the Champions League next season. 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