{"id":446531,"date":"2026-02-01T04:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/446531\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T04:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:20:12","slug":"european-soccer-recap-liverpool-defeat-newcastle-with-ekitike-brace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/446531\/","title":{"rendered":"European soccer recap: Liverpool defeat Newcastle with Ekitike brace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 31, 2026, 05:11 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the final day of January, but there&#8217;s another big weekend of matches all across Europe!<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"feb44e87-58fa-9597-2691-b3c32768ebe4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> started things off in the <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> with a convincing 4-0 win over <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"231a0077-e0f5-f148-974b-82b9ec5f304e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=357\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds United<\/a> as they bounced back following successive games where they were unable to win (a 0-0 draw to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ad9ef79b-ca27-077e-8a6f-335e0d220b27\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=393\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> and 3-2 loss to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ebc2fd0-35d3-733b-5666-b75035a3bce9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=360\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a>), to extend their lead at the top of the table to seven points.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"1e76c2fe-68a5-3950-8881-47e916c0c115\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=349\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFC Bournemouth<\/a> beat <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"7b64f56c-a775-945c-6eb8-686461c3e898\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=380\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a> 2-0 away from home, while <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"78c91a3f-9e5e-c8fe-8fca-778e97cb021a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=331\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a> were held 1-1 by <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c531d4dd-ea53-c1fc-9c91-c7f8f31b5a40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=368\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Everton<\/a> after a last-minute equalizer.<\/p>\n<p>Later, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c43a00b9-2826-72b3-77a0-62730abc936e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=363\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> hosted <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"28c48827-3a74-9af3-21b2-f324cdb1fc01\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=371\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham United<\/a> in a London derby with goals galore as the Hammers took a 2-0 lead at halftime, only for the hosts to score three in the second half and win thanks to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/285450\/enzo-fernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez<\/a> last-minute goal.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we finished things off with <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> taking on <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ec6b4352-98d3-424d-6214-778d79b47a01\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle United<\/a>, as Arne Slot&#8217;s side finished victorious with a 4-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere across the continent, we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team\/_\/id\/127\/hamburg-sv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamburg<\/a> hosting <a data-league-guid=\"30244926-00c4-3f69-8946-f8421c97ff71\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/GER.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bundesliga<\/a> leaders <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"25b5e432-d3d2-939f-f73b-6e531a6fbd91\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=132\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayern Munich<\/a>, which ended in a 2-2 draw and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/esp.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LaLiga<\/a> leaders <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"58f7c4a9-c991-4ed4-fe5c-1f833cba75b8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=83\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a> defeating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team\/_\/id\/3751\/elche\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elche<\/a> 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy all the action from Saturday&#8217;s matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 31, 2026, 05:11 PM ET It&#8217;s the final day of January, but there&#8217;s another big weekend of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-446531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}