Aston Villa are defying the odds in their pursuit of Champions League football
🚫 No penalties awarded
😠 Most fouled team in the Premier League
📈 Most points gained from losing positions
@JPercyTelegraph examines how Unai Emery’s side are keeping their European dream alive ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…
@TheAthleticFC Yeah, with a style that should be outlawed. Twice he stopped in his run up (in fact, he even went backwards) and still it's allowed to stand? Another shit modern football thing.
✅ Tottenham Hotspur, November 2018
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✅ Everton, July 2020
✅ Southampton, January 2022
✅ Fulham, September, 2024
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Raul Jimenez’s successful penalty against Burnley extends his perfect spot-kick record in the Premier League.
No player has scored more penalties without missing than the Mexico international.
@AndyMitten If Bournemouth don't score, my suspicion is they bring it back for the penalty. They didn't want to award us a 2nd pen AND chalk off a goal for the home side, so they bottled it. Same ref who disallowed Martinez's goal v Burnley too. Four points he owes us now.
AFCB 2 MUFC 2. Cracking game for a neutral. Of which few of you are.
Thought it was a pen on Amad before Bournemouth went up the other end and got a pen.
@utdreport If Bournemouth don't go up the other end and score, VAR gives that penalty. All day long. They didn't want to award United a second pen AND rule out a goal, so they bottled it.
"Jadon's best performance in a Villa shirt, he was Man of the Match by a mile tonight"
John McGinn reviews his goal against Lille, and praises Jadon Sancho 👏
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In Pep Guardiola's 10 seasons at Manchester City, his side have been Champions League favourites five times and second-favourites twice.
And yet they have 'only' won the competition once.
In four of the past five seasons they have gone out to Real Madrid, but there have also been eliminations against Monaco, Lyon, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool.
So for all his domestic dominance, should Guardiola have done better in Europe?
📝 @Zonal_Markingnytimes.com/athletic/71270…
@TheAthleticFC It can, and will, be erased. All those ecstatic celebrations were for nought. The history books will record the Morocco win, in black and white, and that's all that will remembered in years to come.
CAF’s decision to award the AFCON title to Morocco cannot retract the ecstatic tidal wave that washed over Senegal when they won the final.
The hypnotic vibration of vuvuzelas cannot be shoved back into their horns, the djembes cannot be unbeaten.
Senegal’s victory cannot be erased.
@tamerra_nikol, who was at the celebrations in Dakar in January, reflects on what it meant for the country.
🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/71278…
@footballontnt All of this dramatic hands-on-heads business is so over the top. Just get on with it and do your jobs, you've hardly witnessed the parting of the Red Sea ferchrissakes.