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MARCUS RASHFORD AND MARCO ASENSIO ARE BECOMING QUITE THE DOUBLE-ACT NOW, WITH RASHFORD’S SUPERB ASSIST TO ASENSIO AT 68 MINS. RESULTING IN A STUPENDOUS GOAL!  ASTON VILLA HAD 25 SHOTS, WITH 10 ON TARGET. (INDEED, CARDIFF’S GOALKEEPER ETHAN HORVATH HAD SAVED 7 ASTON VILLA GOALS BY THE TIME THE RASHFORD/ASENSIO GOAL HIT-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET.)  ASENSIO SCORED ANOTHER CRACKER AT 80 MINS. WHICH HAD THE STADIUM IN RAPTURES. AND ALTHOUGH CARDIFF CITY HAD FRUSTRATED VILLA THROUGHOUT THE MATCH WITH THEIR ENERGETIC PLAY AND GREAT DEFENDING, (ALSO HAVING 4 SHOTS, WITH 1 ON TARGET) THEY DID NOT MANAGE TO REACH-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, MEANING THAT THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 0 WIN TO ASTON VILLA, WHO NOW MOVE INTO THE QUARTER-FINALS!   ASTON VILLA BOSS UNAI EMERY SPEAKS AFTER ...

THERE WERE 9 SHOTS FOR EVERTON YESTERDAY IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST MAN UNITED, WITH 8 SHOTS ON TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKER FROM BETO AT 19 MINS., AND ANOTHER FROM ABDOULAYE COUCOURE AT 33 MINS., WITH 9 SHOTS AND 3 ON TARGET FOR MAN UNITED, INCLUDING 1 FROM BRUNO FERNANDES AT 72 MINS., AND ANOTHER STUNNER FROM MANUEL UGARTE AT 80 MINS.  THERE WAS A LITTLE CONTROVERSY WHEN EVERTON SAW A PENALTY OVERTURNED BY VAR IN EXTRA TIME, AFTER ASHLEY YOUNG HIT THE DECK FOLLOWING SOME SHIRT-TUGGING FROM MATTHIJS DE LIGT, WITH HARRY MAGUIRE PUTTING A HAD ON HIM, AND REF ANDY MADLEY DECLARED A PENALTY, BUT VAR DISAGREED AND THE MATCH CULMINATED IN A 2 – 2 DRAW! DAVID MOYES SPEAKS AFTER THE MATCH SPEAKING OF WHEN THE DECISION HAD BEEN ON THE MAGUIRE FOUL “SO DID THEY LOOK AT THE SHIRT PULL? SO THE...

IT WAS WILSON ISIDOR WHO GOT THE BALL ROLLING FOR SUNDERLAND AT 32 MINS. INTO THE LEEDS UNITED VS SUNDERLAND MATCH YESTERDAY (17/02/2025), AND ALTHOUGH THERE WAS MUCH FURTHER ACTION WITH SUNDERLAND MAKING 335 PASSES, WITH A 74% PASS ACCURACY, AND LEEDS UNITED 623 PASSES, WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY, (AND 66% POSSESSION), WITH MUCH PHYSICALITY THROUGHOUT (WITH 11 FOULS-A-PIECE, AND 6 YELLOW CARDS FOR SUNDERLAND, PLUS 3 YELLOW’S FOR LEEDS), NOTHING FURTHER WAS GOING IN  – EVEN THOUGH SUNDERLAND HAD 6 SHOTS WITH 6 ON TARGET – (INCLUDING ISIDOR’S CRACKER) – SO WHEN SUBSTITUTES ROTHWELL AND STRUIJK CAME ON IN THE 71ST MINUTE AND IMMEDIATELY SPRANG INTO ACTION, YOU COULD ALMOST FEEL THE TENSION FROM THE LEEDS UNITED FANS MELT AWAY. THE TWO ‘SUPER SUBS’ PRO...

TOTTENHAM HAD 22 SHOTS, WITH 7 ON TARGET LAST NIGHT, INCLUDING THE ONLY GOAL OF THE MATCH FROM JAMES MADDISON AT 13 MINS!  TOTTENHAM ALSO MADE 521 PASSES, WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY, AND MAINTAINED 56% POSSESSION.  MANCHESTER UNITED HAD 16 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, AND MADE 412 PASSES, WITH AN 83% PASS ACCURACY, BUT WITH NOTHING REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, THE MATCH ENDED IN A 1 – 0 WIN TO TOTTENHAM WHO NOW GO ABOVE MAN UNITED IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE. JAMES MADDISON AND SON CELEBRATE  JAMES MADDISON, WHO HAS BEEN RECEIVING A BIT OF STICK RECENTLY FROM SOME CRITICS, SAID AFTER THE MATCH “PEOPLE WILL HAVE THEIR OPINIONS, BUT I WANTED TO DO MY TALKING ON THE PITCH.  I HOPE THERE IS A CERTAIN FEW THAT ENJOYED ME BEING THE MATCH-WINNER TODAY!” BIG ANGE SPEAKS AFTER THE MAT...