Football: Newcastle exciting, Liverpool valiant for Boxing Day

Europe 1 with AFP 9:33 p.m., December 26, 2022

Newly rich, Newcastle rediscovered Boxing Day as a big car.

And the Magpies responded present on the lawn of Leicester.

The Foxes, already led 0-2 after seven minutes of play, and rolled on their lawn (0-3) did not see the light of day.

Newcastle are second, four points behind Arsenal.

Liverpool, who traveled to Birmingham to face Aston Villa, also won (3-1) and moved up to 6th place.

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Full stadiums

The strike movements in certain public transport, on an unprecedented scale for several decades, did not prevent the Premier League stadiums from being full after a 40-day break due to the World Cup, with its traditional images of supporters wearing red Santa hats.

Newcastle wasted no time: after just seven minutes the northern English club were leading 2-0 thanks to another goal from Miguel Almiron, just four minutes after Chris opened the scoring from a penalty. Wood.

The Magpies increased the score by Joelinton (32nd, 3-0) and showed control until the end of the match.

Eddie Howe players have chained a tenth consecutive victory in all competitions, and have not lost a single meeting for four months.

This series allows the club bought last year by a consortium led by the Saudi sovereign fund to temporarily occupy 2nd place in the English Championship (33 pts), four points behind the leader, Arsenal, who face in the evening West Ham at the Emirates Stadium.

Manchester City, now 3rd with 32 pts, travels to Leeds on Wednesday.

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Liverpool are still there

Left behind in the title race, Liverpool has not said its last word for one of the four qualifying places for the next Champions League.

By winning against Aston Villa (3-1), the Reds pile up a fourth victory in a row in the Premier League and go back to 6th place with 25 points, still twelve points from the Gunners but five points from Tottenham, which at this stage occupies the fourth and last qualifying place for the group stage of the Champions League.

Mohamed Salah made it easier for his teammates by scoring in the 5th minute.

Virgil Van Dijk rewarded the domination of the Reds half an hour later (37th, 0-2).

A good start to the second half suggested that Unai Emery's team could join Liverpool (Olly Watkins, 59th, 1-2) but Stefan Bajcetik consolidated the Reds' score (81st, 1-3).

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Whistles for striker Kane

At the start of the afternoon, Tottenham suffered at Brentford (2-2) and owed their late-game start to Harry Kane, the unfortunate hero of the England team at the World Cup in Qatar.

Under the eyes of the usual Spurs captain Hugo Lloris, substitute, the formation of Antonio Conte was still trailing 2-0 with 25 minutes remaining in regulation time.

Vitaly Janelt (15th) and Ivan Toney (54th) took advantage of Tottenham's defensive errors, before Kane, whistled by part of the public for missing his penalty against France in the quarter-finals of the World Cup (2-1 defeat), does not give hope to the Spurs with a perfect header on a cross from another globalist, the Croatian Ivan Perisic (65th).

The Dane Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg equalized six minutes later (71st, 2-2), a goal synonymous with 4th place for the Spurs (30 pts), who are however more than ever under threat from Manchester United (5th, 26 points).

This "Boxing Day" smiled on the away teams: in addition to Newcastle and Liverpool, Brighton won 3-1 at Southampton, as did Fulham at Crystal Palace (3-0) and Wolverhampton at Everton (2-1).

As a result, Wolverhampton gave up last place to Southampton.