How one touch from 16yo \u2018phenom\u2019 sparked biggest Aussie football question in years<\/a><\/p>\nEzri Konsa of Aston Villa attempts to stop the goal for Everton scored by Thierno Barry.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Despite being a boyhood Villa fan, Everton winger Jack Grealish was loudly jeered on his return to his former club.<\/p>\n
Grealish almost silenced his tormentors with a goal-bound volley that was blocked by Evann Guessand.<\/p>\n
Everton\u2019s Jake O\u2019Brien headed home from a corner, only to see his effort disallowed for offside against Harrison Armstrong.<\/p>\n
Villa went close just before half-time when Youri Tielemans\u2019s cross picked out Guessand and the Ivory Coast forward looped his header onto the bar.<\/p>\n
But Emery\u2019s men lacked a cutting edge and they paid the price in the 59th minute.<\/p>\n
It was a shambolic goal to concede as Pau Torres carelessly surrendered possession just outside his own area.<\/p>\n
Dwight McNeil pounced with a shot that Emiliano Martinez pushed out to Barry and the striker chipped the ball into the net from close-range for his third goal in his last five appearances.<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper Jordan Pickford preserved Everton\u2019s victory with a brilliant tip-over from Morgan Rogers\u2019s curler, leaving Villa with only one win from their last four league games.<\/p>\n
Everton’s Thierno Barry, right, celebrates his winning goal.Source: AP<\/p>\n
At rain-lashed Molineux, Eddie Howe\u2019s Newcastle were unable to prise open the Wolves defence as two points slipped away.<\/p>\n
Wins over Burnley, Crystal Palace and Leeds had bolstered their bid to qualify for next season\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n
But the Magpies are stuck in eighth place after failing to beat bottom-of-the-table Wolves.<\/p>\n
Following their disappointing 2-0 defeat against Manchester City in the League Cup semi-final first leg on Tuesday, it was another frustrating result for Newcastle.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe needed to do more in attack. I expected us to do better and create more,\u201d Howe said after Newcastle took 85 minutes to muster a shot on target.<\/p>\n
\u201cFootball is such a strange game. We scored four against Leeds and looked free-scoring, but today we struggled.\u201d Nick Woltemade has now gone seven games without a goal, scoring just twice in 13 appearances after squandering two good headed chances.<\/p>\n
With crucial matches against top four rivals Aston Villa and Liverpool looming before the end of the month, Howe\u2019s men must get back on track quickly.<\/p>\n
Wolves are now unbeaten in four league games but still sit 14 points from safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa\u2019s Premier League title challenge suffered a huge blow in a 1-0 defeat against Everton, while Newcastle\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[6074,6236,64,63,222049,6257,17062,222048,121799,182198,12018,13851,1208,221163,2057,596,6246,222054,222051,64029,50006,222053,208683,67609,11999,6255,8316,3583,1614,85,222052,53059,52697,22294,222050,3586,67624],"class_list":["post-421964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-africa","tag-aston-villa-football-club","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-careless-coffee-blunder","tag-champions-league","tag-city-of-birmingham","tag-cops-shock-setback","tag-cote-divoire","tag-disastrous-loss","tag-eddie-howe","tag-emiliano-martinez","tag-england","tag-epic-derby-stunner","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-football-question","tag-frustrating-result","tag-home-games","tag-jack-grealish","tag-jake-obrien","tag-john-mcginn","tag-league-games","tag-manchester-city-football-club","tag-manchester-united-football-club","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-northern-europe","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-surprise-title-challenger","tag-thierno-barry","tag-title-challenge","tag-title-race","tag-top-four-threat-cops","tag-united-kingdom","tag-western-africa-sub-saharan-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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