Aston Villa coach Unai Emery celebrated the 100th victory in his coaching career in the English Premier League with a valuable victory in the stronghold of Newcastle United, 1-0, on Saturday, in the seventh round of the competition.
Johan Manzambi scored the only goal of the match in the 36th minute with a wonderful header after a perfect cross from his teammate Joao Gomez.
Aston Villa continued its awakening after two wins and a draw in the last three rounds, raising its score to 8 points, rising to twelfth place, trailing on goal difference from Newcastle United, which is in eleventh place.
This victory raises Aston Villa's morale before two matches at home against the Norwegian Viking next Wednesday in the Champions League, then hosting Manchester City on Saturday in the eighth round of the Premier League.
Emery achieved 100 victories in the English Premier League, 75 victories with Aston Villa, compared to 25 victories while working as coach of Arsenal.
Unai Emery reached this distinguished mark after 197 matches in the English Premier League, becoming the ninth fastest coach to achieve this achievement, ahead of him is Claudio Ranieri 100 wins after 187 matches, then Rafael Benitez after 181 matches, Arsene Wenger after 179 matches, Mikel Arteta after 169 matches, and Sir Alex Ferguson after 162 matches.
The German Jurgen Klopp, the former Liverpool coach, comes third in this historical list after 159 matches, ahead of him is Jose Mourinho, the former coach of Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester United, with 100 victories after 142 matches, while the Spanish coach Pep Guardiola, the legendary coach of Manchester City, reached this distinguished mark after 134 matches before his departure at the end of last season.
After an unexpected continental loss in Norway, and before that the first stumble since the start of the new season of the German League, Borussia Dortmund dropped points again with a goalless draw with its host Hertha Berlin in the sixth stage, which allowed Bayern Munich to take the lead after settling its confrontation with Leipzig with a crushing 6-1 victory, with its heroes being Colombian Luis Diaz and Englishman Harry Kane.
Waiting for Freiburg's match (13 points) with its host, Bayer Leverkusen, on Sunday, Bayern Munich advanced to the lead with 14 points and a goal difference against Dortmund, with a crushing victory over its strong guest, Leipzig, 6-1, after two disappointing draws in the last stage with Augsburg, 2-2, and then in midweek with the Norwegian Viking, 3-3, in the Champions League.
In a confrontation between two teams competing for the lead, Bayern struck early when Joshua Kimmich penetrated before passing the ball through the ball to Luis Diaz, who put it into the net (12).
Bayern did not wait long to add the second when Kane played a wonderful pass to Diaz, who penetrated the visitors' defense, before passing the ball to Alexander Pavlovic, who fired it powerfully into the net (26).
Frenchman Michael Oliset almost added the third had it not been for the intervention of Belgian goalkeeper Martin Vandervoordt and the post to prevent him from reaching the net (30).
But the French star made up for this opportunity after he received the ball from afar before passing the ball to Kane, who returned it to him, and he fired it from the outskirts of the penalty area into the net (34), scoring his fifth goal in the league this season.
With a third assist from Kane, who was playing his 100th match in the German League, Diaz scored Bayern's fourth goal and his second at the start of the second half (47), and then Kane was rewarded for his efforts by scoring the fifth goal in the match, the fourth this season and the 102nd in the “Bundesliga” with a pass from Nathaniel Brown (53).
Diaz completed his hat-trick in the 69th minute with a pass from Oliseh this time, before Serbian Andrea Maksimovic spared Leipzig their biggest defeat in the league, with a 6-0 draw also against Bayern in August 2025, by reducing the difference in stoppage time with a very powerful shot that goalkeeper Jonas Orubig, who played as a starter due to Manuel Neuer's injury, was unable to block (1 + 90).
The US women's gymnastics team will have to compete at the world championships without Haisley Rivera.
Rivera (18 years old), the youngest member of the American team that won gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and who had previously won the national championship title in the overall individual competition twice, withdrew from the world championships on Saturday, due to an injury to her left ankle.
Rivera was suffering from ankle pain during training, and she told reporters Thursday that her condition is being evaluated day by day, and substitute player Dulce Caylor will replace Rivera in the five-player team.
The US women's team, which is seeking to achieve its eighth consecutive title in the team competition at the World Championship, is scheduled to participate in the qualifiers on Sunday.
