{"id":830353,"date":"2026-08-30T01:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830353\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T01:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:36:13","slug":"spurs-0-2-newcastle-magpies-show-theres-plenty-of-life-after-tonali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830353\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs 0-2 Newcastle: Magpies show there’s plenty of life after Tonali"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Newcastle<\/a> defeated Spurs last season, too, there were also a number of games when the visitors wilted in such circumstances.<\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> won just four of their 19 top-flight matches on the road and, home or away, they had not previously kept a single clean sheet since March.<\/p>\n

However, going in level in their first away day of this campaign gave Newcastle<\/a> the chance to regroup at half-time.<\/p>\n

The visitors sought to be more aggressive after the break and clinically took Spurs apart with their only two shots on target.<\/p>\n

For the first, just as he did in the opening stages, new signing Gonzalez hit a stunning cross field ball over the head of Spurs left-back Andy Robertson for the advancing Dedic to flick on to Elanga, who turned Tonali inside the box and fired the ball in off the post.<\/p>\n

“It is something that I spoke about with the coach, even before the game,” Gonzalez said. <\/p>\n

“He wanted me to see these kind of balls and I tried a few in the first half and the second half, and we scored.<\/p>\n

“In the second half we said, ‘we have to keep doing this’ because it is really hard to defend players like Amar, a full-back that comes this fast from behind. Normally wingers don’t defend these kind of balls very well.<\/p>\n

“It’s something that we have to keep doing and I hope it gives us many more goals this season.”<\/p>\n

For Newcastle<\/a>‘s second, Sean Steur’s corner was headed down by fellow substitute Nick Woltemade and Wissa improvised with a clever overhead kick to double his side’s lead.<\/p>\n

For all the focus on Newcastle<\/a>‘s new arrivals, it was rather fitting that two players who endured difficult first seasons at the club stepped up under Jaissle once again as Elanga and Wissa built on improved showings against Liverpool<\/a> on the opening weekend.<\/p>\n

“He’s a really dynamic manager so we need to give everything,” Wissa told Sky Sports. “I think he’s the best signing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Newcastle defeated Spurs last season, too, there were also a number of games when the visitors wilted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-830353","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\/830353","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=830353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}