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Callum Wilson | Forward | Newcastle United
Cost: 7.5
Mexico and Newcastle real-life striker Santiago Muñoz has never been as close to emulating Mexico and Newcastle Goal! movie-character striker Santiago Muñez as he was this Sunday after becoming the hero in a 2-0 victory over Colombia. It's a win that allowed El Tri to finish third at the U-21 Maurice Revello Tournament.
I was 13 years old when Jeremy Lin completely took over my life.
Inefficient ball control, a sloppy defense and a massive miss from Santi Muñoz. Those were the capital sins Mexico was made to pay for during a painful 2-1 defeat against Venezuela in the Maurice Revello tournament.
Nobody can't hide the facts. Seeing how this Mexican U-21 ensemble wasted its ball possession without damaging the opponent, almost mirroring the deficiencies you can see in the adult squad, was very frustrating.
When Newcastle United was taken over by a consortium back in October led by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF), "key" to green-lighting the sale was the Premier League's moral assurance that the new owners wouldn't be mixed up in the sort of things that the Saudi government has been guilty of lately, like the dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi, the disastrous war in Yemen or its "appalling" human rights record.
Arsenal’s hopes of returning to the Champions League were all but extinguished on Monday at St. James’ Park. Tottenham fans can thank the toothless Callum Wilson for his heroics.
In his first start of 2022, Newcastle striker Callum Wilson had a tooth knocked loose in the first half, gruesomely caught on camera.
Content warning: The images below show Callum Wilson’s tooth flopping loose from his gums. It’s not pretty.
OUCH
Manchester City recovered from its surreal midweek Champions League elimination to Real Madrid by beating Newcastle 5-0 at the Etihad on Sunday. The win gives City a three-point lead over Liverpool, and goal difference of +68 to Liverpool's +64, with only three matches remaining in the Premier League.
Premier League clubs spent $385 million during the winter transfer window in 2022 — a figure that almost surpassed the combined totals from January 2020 and 2021.
Not all that money was well spent, but let's look at the seven players signed by Premier League clubs in January who have made the biggest impacts during the second half of the season.
Talking points from the weekend's Premier League action:
RONALDO DOES IT AGAIN
Once again Manchester United put in a below-par performance. Once again they needed David de Gea saves to bail them out, and once again Cristiano Ronaldo came to the rescue with a hat-trick in a 3-2 win over Norwich City on Saturday.
LONDON - Tottenham Hotspur moved into the Premier League top four after a second-half blitz of goals from Matt Doherty, Son Heung-min, Emerson Royal and Steven Bergwijn fired them to an emphatic 5-1 home win over Newcastle United on Sunday.
Spurs are now level on 54 points with Arsenal but their London rivals have two games in hand and can move back into fourth place when they visit Crystal Palace on Monday. Newcastle are 15th with 31 points, nine clear of the relegation zone.