All Good Things Must Come To An End. Villa 1-3 Newcastle.
Well, Villa’s remarkable unbeaten home streak at home simply had to come to an end at some point. It was written in the stars, or Villa Park’s firework light-show perhaps, that it would against a Newcastle side with the worst away form in the division. How typically Villa.
On what was a freezing evening in B6, this Villa side struggled to get going. Indeed, it was the kind of performance we’d seen in phases in recent weeks. At times it was pedestrian, some looked leggy and there are one or two who are certainly struggling for form and confidence.
By contrast, Newcastle were adventurous and took advantage of the space afforded to them. There were also obvious comparisons to the opening day 5-1 drubbing, with the visitors causing us no end of problems with a diagonal ball. There was a growing sense of inevitability as the opening exchanges took place.
There were a couple of near misses even before we went behind, with Martinez called into action as a sweeper come keeper for not the first time this season. The opener was a poor goal to concede though, with Schar toeing home a straightforward ball in from a corner. Schar was on the scoresheet just minutes later, finishing a Gordon shot that had deflected wickedly onto the bar. 2-0 in the blink of an eye.
Villa had been rocking and Newcastle’s game plan was working well, and with nobody capable of containing Gordon, there was always a lingering threat. Moreno was out of sorts,...
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