{"id":468606,"date":"2026-02-14T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468606\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:42:11","slug":"fa-cup-live-aston-villa-vs-newcastle-and-liverpool-vs-brighton-after-mansfield-beat-burnley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468606\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup LIVE: Aston Villa vs Newcastle and Liverpool vs Brighton after Mansfield beat Burnley"},"content":{"rendered":"

A heavyweight tie in the ‘most beautiful cup’published at 17:17 GMT<\/p>\n

17:17 GMT<\/p>\n

Aston Villa v Newcastle (17:45 GMT)<\/p>\n

\"\"Ciaran Kelly
BBC Sport reporter at Villa Park<\/p>\n

\"VillaImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Could this be Aston Villa’s year?<\/p>\n

Unai Emery has made it clear that the Premier League is his priority.<\/p>\n

But the Aston Villa manager has hailed the FA Cup as the “most beautiful cup in the world\u201d as his side look to stay in contention to win a trophy for the first time since 1996.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have in mind how important
\nthe FA Cup is for our fans,” he writes in his programme notes before the fourth-round tie against Newcastle United.<\/p>\n

There may only be a place in the last 16 at stake this
\nevening, but one day returning to Wembley is also huge source of inspiration
\nfor Newcastle, of course.<\/p>\n

Eddie Howe\u2019s side ended a 70-year wait for a major domestic
\ntrophy by winning the EFL Cup last season.<\/p>\n

Forward Anthony Elanga, who joined the club from Nottingham
\nForest last summer, watched on from afar as 150,000 supporters lined the streets
\nof Newcastle for the victory parade.<\/p>\n

That has given the Swede \u201cmotivation to give them more\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cVilla are a top side, but we believe in ourselves,\u201d he
\nsaid. \u201cHere at the club, the ambition is to go far – not just to
\nparticipate – and it\u2019s a fantastic opportunity to go there and really put a
\nmarker down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heavyweight tie in the ‘most beautiful cup’published at 17:17 GMT 17:17 GMT Aston Villa v Newcastle (17:45…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-468606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}