{"id":853535,"date":"2026-09-19T19:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853535\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:12:21","slug":"zion-suzuki-japan-goalkeeper-lays-platform-for-aston-villas-victory-at-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853535\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion Suzuki: Japan goalkeeper lays platform for Aston Villa’s victory at Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Johan Manzambi and Nicolas Jackson both scored, another Aston Villa<\/a> new boy, Zion Suzuki, deserved as much credit as anyone for their first Premier League win of the season at struggling Tottenham. <\/a><\/p>\n

The Japan goalkeeper made the move to Villa from Italian side Parma for a fee in the region of \u00a330m in August. <\/p>\n

And his performance against Spurs suggests he is more than capable of filling the very big boots vacated by the departure of Argentina number one – and fan favourite – Emiliano Martinez to Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In particular, his two saves from Savio within seconds of each other and a moment of good fortune when Archie Gray’s effort clipped wide off his foot, gave Villa the platform to ride out a period in the game when the hosts held sway. <\/p>\n

“We needed the keeper,” said Villa boss Unai Emery in his post-match interviews. <\/p>\n

“He is a keeper to save us. To make sure in the goal he has the quality and then he has the skills to play and build up. <\/p>\n

“It is very important how he is doing it and sometimes taking some risks, but through those he is improving and learning.”<\/p>\n

One of the attractions around signing the 24-year-old in August was his apparent assuredness with the ball at his feet and his ability to spray the ball forward with very little backlift. <\/p>\n

And on a day when things could not have gone much better for him, Suzuki ended up as the architect of Villa’s second goal, with his booming ball forward from his own six-yard box dropping deep into Tottenham<\/a> territory, where Jackson collected it and dispatched an unerring shot to the left corner. <\/p>\n

“In the build up, he can choose to play long balls because he has a very long pass in behind and he did that for the second goal we scored,” added Emery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Johan Manzambi and Nicolas Jackson both scored, another Aston Villa new boy, Zion Suzuki, deserved as much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-853535","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\/853535","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=853535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}