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First-half treble powers Aston Villa to Champions League win at Club Brugge

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Aston Villa were 3-1 up after 43 minutes but were made to sweat for their first win of the season, emerging victorious from an entertaining Champions League opener with Club Brugge. John McGinn, who struck the only goal when Villa belatedly got their season up and running last September against Bologna, opened the scoring before Emi Buendía and a first goal for Nicolas Jackson in claret and blue appeared to put Villa out of sight at half-time.The Belgian side have become familiar foes since Villa returned to the big time, the glitziest club competition of them all; a freakish Tyrone Mings handball gifted the hosts a penalty, and subsequently victory, in 2024-25 and on this occasion Aaron Wan-Bissaka conceded a second-half penalty to plunge a seesawing contest back into the balance. Continue reading...

Jaissle is Newcastle’s ‘best signing’ of the summer, believes Wissa

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Matthias Jaissle has made an instant impact at Newcastle United, and he will be hoping to continue his good start against Bournemouth. The post Jaissle is Newcastle’s ‘best signing’ of the summer, believes Wissa appeared first on SoccerNews.

Official | Auxerre sign Axel Tuanzebe as free agent

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Auxerre have completed the Deadline Day signing of former Manchester United and Burnley FC centre-back Axel Tuanzebe (28), the Ligue 1 side has announced. The DR Congo international defender has signe...

Archer and Tuanzebe to join Auxerre

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Former Manchester United and Burnley defender Axel Tuanzebe and Southampton forward Cameron Archer are joining Auxerre.

Nico Gonzalez could be Newcastle’s transfer masterstroke after key role sinking lavish Spurs

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Tottenham Hotspur 0-2 Newcastle United: Anthony Elanga and Yoane Wissa scored the goals as Spurs fell to another defeat

Lavish spending fails to fix Tottenham’s big issue – the lack of soul and spine | Jonathan Liew

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It might be too early to push the panic button but Roberto De Zerbi faces a huge task if he is to turn Spurs aroundTime for Tottenham to start panicking? This is, of course, a subtle trick question. Tottenham is one of those clubs that never actually stops panicking. They panic when they concede and they panic when they score. They panic when they have the ball and they panic when someone else does. They have a coach in Roberto De Zerbi whose face evokes a state of permanent alarm, the expression of a man perpetually having a toilet door opened on him. One year they even managed to panic their way to the Europa League. For the ever-rattled Spurs fan, this club is less a treasured devotion and more a lifelong haunting, broken up by occasional panic substitutions.You could intuit that sense of encrusted resignation pretty much from the moment Anthony Elanga’s improvised shot kissed the post and trickled over the line to give Newcastle the lead. Since beating Aston Villa 4-1 in late 2024, Tottenham have gone behind 44 times in all competitions and come back to win precisely zero of them. There is something innate and endemic here, a chronic case of Long Tottenham for which – despite the new coach, the new leadership structure and more than a third of a billion pounds in transfer fees – there remains no proven cure. Yoane Wissa’s clincher was of zero surprise to anyone. Continue reading...

Hits and misses: Newcastle duo Elanga and Wissa are reborn under Jaissle

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TOTTENHAM 0-2 NEWCASTLE - PLAYER RATINGS: Which new Spurs signing was 'ordinary?' Who marshalled the midfield for the Magpies? And how did Sandro Tonali fare against his old side?

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BOBBY MANZI AT THE TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM: Anthony Elanga and Yoane Wissa inflicted a miserable defeat on Tottenham Hotspur with the Newcastle United pair proving prolific in attack.