{"id":307472,"date":"2026-02-24T09:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307472\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:24:08","slug":"anthony-gordons-electric-champions-league-form-bodes-well-for-englands-world-cup-hopes-as-newcastle-winger-battles-kylian-mbappe-for-european-goal-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307472\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Gordon&#8217;s electric Champions League form bodes well for England&#8217;s World Cup hopes as Newcastle winger battles Kylian Mbappe for European goal supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon&#8217;s Premier League form is a world apart from that in the Champions League. Only Kylian Mbappe of Real Madrid can boast a better goal return with 13. Part of that may be due to the increased competitive and physical nature of the Premier League (see also: Tottenham finishing fourth in the league phase), though Gordon&#8217;s still outscoring the likes of Harry Kane and Erling Haaland.<\/p>\n<p>One trait also working in Gordon&#8217;s favour is his hunger to keep scoring, even when the goals aren&#8217;t coming domestically. After scoring his fourth against Qarabag courtesy of a penalty, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/emotions-get-high-anthony-gordon-explains-bust-up-with-kieran-trippier-after-scoring-four-in-newcastle-s-champions-league-win-at-qarabag\/bltb5ff698efcceae51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spotted arguing with captain Kieran Trippier<\/a>, who wanted to spread out the responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand everyone&#8217;s opinion because I want everyone to succeed,&#8221; Gordon explained post-match. &#8220;We&#8217;re a team, we should be in it together. But I&#8217;m an attacker, I&#8217;m the penalty taker, so I want to score as many goals as I possibly can. But I understood everyone&#8217;s opinion and emotions do get high.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Records are nice, but I just want to score and win games. Ultimately we&#8217;ve won the game convincingly, I&#8217;d say it was our best performance this season, that&#8217;s more important than the goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Howe agreed after the game that this was actually a &#8216;really big positive. &#8220;Moments like that get blown out of all proportion; it was a very minor issue,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;It was great from Anthony that he&#8217;s got that strong enough resolve that he wants to score in every moment &#8211; and you&#8217;d want that from any player &#8211; so I&#8217;ve got no issue with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gordon&#8217;s Premier League form is a world apart from that in the Champions League. Only Kylian Mbappe of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61004,283,4488,444,2664,85,46,4030,154489,2619,105,6866],"class_list":{"0":"post-307472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-a-gordon","9":"tag-analysis","10":"tag-champions-league","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-features","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-newcastle-united","16":"tag-newcastle-united-vs-qarabag-fk","17":"tag-premier-league","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}