{"id":438738,"date":"2026-02-21T23:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438738\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T23:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:51:10","slug":"like-a-dream-tammy-abraham-relishing-aston-villa-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438738\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Like a dream’ – Tammy Abraham relishing Aston Villa return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven years after firing them into the Premier League, Tammy Abraham is back scoring goals at Aston Villa<\/a> to keep their fans and manager dreaming of glory.<\/p>\n

With Villa on the verge of losing 1-0 to Leeds United<\/a> on Saturday, substitute Abraham, who had only been on the pitch for 13 minutes, guided the ball with his knee into the net to score an 88th-minute equaliser.<\/p>\n

It was the 28-year-old’s second goal since returning to the club following his \u00a318.2m move from Besiktas in January, after scoring in the 3-1 loss to Newcastle<\/a> in the FA Cup seven days ago.<\/p>\n

But scoring for Villa is nothing new for the 11-time England international. He netted 25 times in 37 Championship games to help the club win promotion in 2018-19 during a loan spell from Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After his original time with Villa, Abraham had two seasons at Chelsea<\/a>, three at Roma, one on loan at AC Milan and then another loan spell at Besiktas, with the Turkish club buying him to then immediately sell him to Villa for a profit.<\/p>\n

“It feels like a dream to come back and play for this club again,” said Abraham. “I’m happy to be here and bring extra energy.<\/p>\n

“I had to sniff around the box, be alert, be ready. Luckily for us, I got the goal – it was in front of some of the best supporters in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven years after firing them into the Premier League, Tammy Abraham is back scoring goals at Aston Villa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-438738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}