{"id":479993,"date":"2024-03-10T10:59:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T14:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479993"},"modified":"2024-03-10T10:59:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T14:59:50","slug":"tottenham-beat-aston-villa-2-0-to-move-2-points-within-top-4","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tottenham-beat-aston-villa-2-0-to-move-2-points-within-top-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham beat Aston Villa 4-0 to move 2 points within top 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham won against Aston Villa 4-0 at Villa Park and the North London side is only 2 points behind the Villains with match in hand.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Picture perfect for Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n<p>Ange Postecoglou&#39;s side thump 10-man Aston Villa 4-0 to move within two points of Unai Emery&#39;s team in fourth having played a game less.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AVFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AVFC<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/THFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#THFC<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AVLTOT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AVLTOT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KaVUrrrt7j\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KaVUrrrt7j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/1766840920190722320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, we didn\u2019t see great football, as the 1st 45 minutes of the match in Birmingham finished without a shot on goal from either side.<\/p>\n<p>However, at the beginning of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, Pape Matar Sarr provided a fantastic pass to James Maddison and with an empty net in front of him Maddison scored to give the lead to Spurs in the 50<sup>th<\/sup> minute. VAR checked the goal for an offside but the goal stand.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tottenham Hotspur have scored in all 27 Premier League matches under Ange Postecoglou \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Thats now goals in 39 consecutive games dating back to last season \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WsuVQ5oJe5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WsuVQ5oJe5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CBS Sports Golazo \u26bd\ufe0f (@CBSSportsGolazo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSportsGolazo\/status\/1766834528914428061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 54<sup>th<\/sup> minute, Tottenham doubled its lead when captain Heung-Min Son sent a pass to Brennan Johnson, who netted for 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>John McGinn left Aston Villa with 10 men on the pitch in the 65<sup>th<\/sup> minute when he received a direct red card for clattering a Spurs player, and that\u2019s the moment when it became clear that Tottenham would return to London with 3 points from Villa Park.<\/p>\n<p>Heung-Min Son made it 3-0 in the extra time after Dejan Kulusevski\u2019s assist. Timo Werner netted for 4-0 in the 94th minute.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Only three players have provided 60+ Premier League assists for Tottenham:<\/p>\n<p>\u25ce 67 &#8211; Darren Anderton <br \/>\u25ce 62 &#8211; Christian Eriksen <br \/>\u25c9 60 &#8211; Son Heung-min <\/p>\n<p>Sonny\u2019s coming for the record. \ud83c\udd70\ufe0f\ud83c\udd70\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AVLTOT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AVLTOT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ymwu6ir4CX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ymwu6ir4CX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1766840384322208053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa are in 4th place with 55 points after 28 matches as Spurs ended the Villains\u2019 3rd straight victory series in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham are in 5<sup>th<\/sup> place with 53 after 27 games as that was Spurs 3<sup>rd<\/sup> win in the past 4 matches in Premier League and they are only 2 points behind 4<sup>th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham won against Aston Villa 4-0 at Villa Park and the North London side is only 2 points behind the Villains with match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479995,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18818,17317,18466],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18819,17886,18467],"acf":{"announce":"Spurs moved within 2 points from the Villains with a game in hand.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479993"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479998,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479993\/revisions\/479998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479993"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479993"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}