Steven Taylor was dismissed for handball before Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer were sent off for fighting each other. Juan Pablo Angel scored and Gareth Barry converted two penalties in a 3-0 victory for the visitors.<\/p>\n
That infamous April 2005 meeting<\/a> was the last time Aston Villa<\/a> had won a Premier League game at Newcastle<\/a>. Before Sunday, that is.<\/p>\n That was 17 attempts ago. Since then, both clubs have been relegated to and returned from the Championship – and this term both are chasing European glory. <\/p>\n Newcastle<\/a> are seventh in the league phase of the Champions League. Villa have already secured a place in the Europa League last 16. <\/p>\n However, after losing by an aggregate score of 12-1 on their past three trips to St James’ Park, Villa’s 2-0 success this time around underlined the progress made under boss Unai Emery. <\/p>\n The result keeps Villa, who bounced back from last Sunday’s loss to Everton<\/a> by adding this win to Thursday’s Europa League victory away to Fenerbahce, third in the table and firmly in the title race, just four points behind leaders Arsenal<\/a>. <\/p>\n And Emery was insistent that his players had delivered a “complete” performance. <\/p>\n “The players were extraordinary,” the Spaniard told BBC Match of the Day.<\/p>\n “We spoke about this match and the difficulties some teams have with their level here. It is the highest level we can face this season and the players respond fantastic.<\/p>\n “We can only help the players tactically. Out on the field, they need to show the attitude and commitment to work to the gameplan and they did it.<\/p>\n “Last week we lost and were so disappointed but we can be calm again and have confidence. We were comfortable in what we were doing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Taylor was dismissed for handball before Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer were sent off for fighting each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-437364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437364","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=437364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}