{"id":736075,"date":"2026-08-12T23:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736075\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:40:14","slug":"doue-seals-super-cup-glory-for-psg-after-madjo-makes-history-for-aston-villa-uefa-super-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736075\/","title":{"rendered":"Dou\u00e9 seals Super Cup glory for PSG after Madjo makes history for Aston Villa | Uefa Super Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luis Enrique says it doesn\u2019t matter which sport he is playing \u2013 football, tennis, padel or parchis, a board game \u2013 he wants to win all of the time. In Paris Saint-Germain<\/a>, he has built a winning machine, the back-to-back Champions League victors maintaining a useful habit by conquering Aston Villa in an absorbing Super Cup contest in Salzburg. For PSG, after the joy of Munich and Budapest, three months ago, does a three-peat in Madrid in May beckon?<\/p>\n

Aston Villa more than played their part in an enthralling showpiece, Brian Madjo becoming the competition\u2019s youngest scorer after the 17-year-old cancelled out Khvicha Kvaratskhelia\u2019s opener. They could have taken the game to a penalty shootout, Warren Za\u00efre-Emery\u2019s extraordinary block preventing Jo\u00e3o Gomes a near-certain debut goal and\u00a0Emi Buend\u00eda heading wide in stoppage time.<\/p>\n

Villa will take plenty of encouragement from a fearless display, D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9\u2019s well-taken winner ultimately the difference. The goal was initially disallowed but, after a VAR review, Omar Artan \u2013 the Somali referee handed the game by Uefa after being denied entry to the US to officiate at the World Cup \u2013 awarded it after replays showed Matty Cash played Dou\u00e9 onside.<\/p>\n

Before kick-off, the sights and sounds were in effect an extension of Villa\u2019s victory in Istanbul, a party atmosphere raining down from the 6,000-strong Villa following. There were huge cheers when Unai Emery\u2019s face appeared on the big screens in opposite corners after the teams were read aloud and hearty roars for the \u00a338m arrival Gomes and Madjo, the hulking forward who made his presence felt on his full Villa debut. Madjo\u2019s inclusion felt particularly ominous for Tammy Abraham, the striker signed seven months ago, his \u00a318.25m arrival yet to pay dividends.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won\u2019t be in our best moment,\u201d Emery warned on the eve of the game but, after a summer of change, the future looks bright. Emery could finally unleash Madjo in a competitive game for the first time since his \u00a310m arrival from Metz in January, Villa winning an appeal at the court of arbitration for sport (Cas) to register him after Fifa prohibited him from playing. Chelsea\u2019s Jo\u00e3o Pedro is the only Premier League player to have outscored Madjo in pre-season and his equaliser here was on the grandest stage yet after goals against Walsall, Real Sociedad and Indonesia All Stars. Madjo occupied Willian Pacho and Marquinhos, one of the most decorated defenders in the world. The 19-year-old George Hemmings played the full game and kept Achraf Hakimi on his toes.<\/p>\n

Only five players from Villa\u2019s memorable victory over Freiburg remained in the XI though Emi Mart\u00ednez, Ezri Konsa and Ollie Watkins are still on holiday. Emery told Watkins to rest after the striker volunteered to play here. Boubacar Kamara made his first start since sustaining a serious knee injury against Tottenham in January. More new faces will join, with Villa in advanced talks to sign Jo\u00e3o Palhinha from Bayern Munich and the Atl\u00e9tico Madrid left-back Matteo Ruggeri expected to undergo a medical in the next 48 hours. \u201cOverall we can feel proud of everything we\u2019ve done,\u201d Emery said. \u201cSome changes will be needed but we are confident.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brian Madjo punches the air after scoring for Aston Villa on the stroke of half-time. Photograph: Angelika Warmuth\/Reuters<\/p>\n

PSG seized the lead on 20 minutes through Kvaratskhelia, who had the summer off. Madjo\u2019s clunky control allowed Vitinha to claim the ball and locate Dou\u00e9. Then Kvaratskhelia took charge, jinking inside Cash and blasting his shot in at Marco Bizot\u2019s near post. Six minutes later, it should have been 2-0 after more Kvaratskhelia brilliance, but PSG could not apply the finishing touch. Nuno Mendes galloped on to Kvaratskhelia\u2019s flipped pass but the full-back\u2019s cutback from the left flank evaded the \u00a343m summer buy Maghnes Akliouche and three other blue and red shirts.<\/p>\n

Madjo had a hat-trick of chances from John McGinn\u2019s cunning crosses before levelling. He glanced at the screens showing a replay of him misdirecting a free header. Then he overcooked a shot when looking for the far corner after Hemmings beat Hakimi. Another flunked header followed after McGinn twirled clear of Kvaratskhelia. But with the half-time whistle looming, Madjo made amends, dispatching a side-footed volley into the roof of Matvey Safonov\u2019s net after meeting another brilliant cross from McGinn. As the ball flew towards the back post, Pacho clung to Madjo for dear life, but the teenager kept him at arm\u2019s length to ripple the net.<\/p>\n

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Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 replaced Akliouche at half-time. Fabi\u00e1n Ruiz, the only other player missing from the XI that began against Arsenal in Budapest in May, arrived late on. Villa kept hunting, McGinn working Safonov after Madjo spread play. But PSG regained the lead just after the hour when Demb\u00e9l\u00e9\u2019s pass unlocked Villa\u2019s defence, exposing an imperfect offside line. Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 zipped the ball into the right channel and, while Ian Maatsen and Pau Torres raised their hands and Dou\u00e9\u2019s goal was initially ruled out, semi-automated offside exposed Cash.<\/p>\n

Villa still had chances to level. Za\u00efre-Emery slid across the turf to thwart Gomes. Safonov repelled Hemmings\u2019s strike from close range and the substitutes Alysson and Abraham almost combined to devastating effect but Abraham did not gamble in the box, much to Emery\u2019s frustration. Perhaps Villa will, as McGinn suggested this week, prove everybody wrong \u2013 again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luis Enrique says it doesn\u2019t matter which sport he is playing \u2013 football, tennis, padel or parchis, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736075","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=736075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}