Newcastle 3-0 Aston Villa: Jhon Duran sent off as Alexander Isak continues scoring streak

Newcastle continued their impressive run of form with a dominant 3-0 victory over Aston Villa. The win marked their fourth consecutive victory across all competitions, with their opponents having to play with 10 men after Jhon Duran was shown a red card in the first half.

Anthony Gordon took just 90 seconds to send Newcastle on their way with a beautiful curling strike. Villa's task was already tough enough after that but was made even more difficult by Duran's dismissal after a clash with Fabian Schar.

The Villa striker was deemed to have deliberately left some studs on the leg and back of Schar after the Newcastle man had gone to ground.

The decision came much to Villa head coach Unai Emery's disgust and tempers rose in the dugout where Newcastle assistant manager Jason Tindall along with an Aston Villa analyst were also sent off.

Former Premier League referee Mike Dean said on Soccer Special: "Only Duran will know if he could have got out of the way.

"The foot does go on the back of the defender and that has what has tipped the referee towards a red card."

Newcastle played with great intelligence and coolness in the second half with the extra man and goals from Isak, his seventh in five games, and Joelinton rubberstamped an easy victory.

It might have been more on a day when the Magpies saw three further goals ruled out, as goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez was in fine form, but he could not prevent the visitors from extending their miserable run without a win on Tyneside to 17 games.

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