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LONDON, United Kingdom – Newcastle has the podium in sight after its fifth successive victory in the Premier League, obtained on Saturday against a Tottenham team (2-1) which has won only one of its last eight league matches.
The success of the “Magpies” at the opening of the 20th day places them just two points behind Nottingham Forest (3rd, 37 pts) and tied with Chelsea (4th, 35 pts), two teams entered later.
Newcastle have been walking on water for three weeks in the league, with fifteen points taken out of fifteen possible, a series embellished by fifteen goals scored and only one conceded.
His defense gave way on Saturday after four minutes on a header from Dominic Solanke (4th, 1-0), scorer in front of his new coach, Thomas Tuchel, present in the stands of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
But that of Spurs is weakened by a shower of packages among its usual executives (Vicario, Romero, van de Ven, Udogie) and it is constantly taking on water.
Newcastle took advantage of a dangerous recovery from Brandon Austin, the third goalkeeper of the Londoners, and good pressing to quickly equalize by Anthony Gordon (6th, 1-1).
Alexander Isak (38th, 1-2) prolonged the torments of his hosts, at the same time as his own dynamic: the Swedish striker has scored in each of his last seven matches in the Premier League.
The pressure is increasing for Ange Postecoglou after a tenth defeat in twenty matches, the fifth in the last seven matches, which leaves Tottenham in eleventh place pending the rest of the weekend.
