{"id":14905,"date":"2023-08-13T07:20:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T07:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14905"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:20:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T07:20:29","slug":"newcastle-hit-aston-villa-five-debutants-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14905","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Hit Aston Villa Five, Debutants Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alexander Isak scored twice in Newcastle\u2019s 5-1 thrashing of Aston Villa. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Newcastle finished fourth last season to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in 20 years and their rise under the control of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund shows no sign of stopping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Italian international Sandro Tonali enjoyed a dream debut as he fired the Magpies into the lead after just six minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Villa equalised almost immediately through one of their own new signings Moussa Diaby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But Unai Emery\u2019s men, who also ended last season strongly to qualify for Europe, collapsed after Isak restored Newcastle\u2019s lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Swedish striker calmly slotted home his second just before the hour mark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Harvey Barnes then came off the bench to exemplify Newcastle\u2019s new-found strength in depth as the former Leicester winger teed up Callum Wilson to make it 4-1 and then rounded off the scoring himself in stoppage time to put Eddie Howe\u2019s men top of the table.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Isak scored twice in Newcastle\u2019s 5-1 thrashing of Aston Villa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7452,3459,7453,4721],"class_list":["post-14905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-alexander-isak","tag-aston-villa","tag-debutants-shine","tag-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14907,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905\/revisions\/14907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}