At Villa Park, Newcastle United defeated Aston Villa 3-1 thanks to two goals from Fabian Schar, which put the Magpies in a memorable victory. Not even Quasimodo anticipated this. Villa had not dropped a Premier League game at home since February, whereas Newcastle had only triumphed once on the road this season and had lost six of their previous seven league games. However, Newcastle deserved to win since they played a great game, especially in the first half. Within five minutes, Fabian Schar scored twice, and just after the break, Alex Moreno scored a comical own goal.
After trailing 3-0, Villa’s football was at its finest. In the 75th minute, Ollie Watkins scored and had a second goal disallowed for a Spandex-tight offside. Villa was pounding Newcastle when that happened, and they were never really in danger again.
With their victory and Brighton’s loss, Newcastle moves up to seventh place from tenth. The success move Newcastle up to seventh in the table on 32 points. Eddie Howe’s men are 11 points off Villa in fourth in the race for the Champions League.
Villa has not lost a Premier League game at home since falling to Arsenal 4–2 11 months ago, while Newcastle has also ended an 11-year drought without a league victory at Villa Park.
