Former Sunderland man makes divisive Aston Villa claim that only Newcastle United can argue with
PSG 2-1 Aston Villa: Paris Saint-Germain’s dominance over European football continued with another UEFA Super Cup win.
Paris Saint-Germain beat Premier League side Aston Villa 2-1 to win the UEFA Super Cup and strengthen their European dominance.
It’s now successive Champions League trophies and Super Cups for the Ligue 1 champions. The win over Villa also saw Luis Enrique’s side continue a fine run against English sides.
PSG beat Arsenal on penalties in last season’s Champions League final, they also beat Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur during the competition. The season prior, they beat Arsenal, Aston Villa, Liverpool and Manchester City before winning the trophy.
Villa, however, did beat PSG at home in the Champions League quarter-final second leg back in 2025 but were still knocked out by the French side. Unai Emery’s side then put up another good fight against PSG in the Super Cup but still came off second best.
Villa’s performance prompted a comment from Ally McCoist, who was commentating on the match.
“Of all the English teams to play PSG, Aston Villa have caused the most problems,” McCoist said.
No doubt that comment will have piqued the interest of Newcastle United supporters. PSG have beaten every English side they have faced in the Champions League and generally boast a very strong record against English opposition, with the exception of one side.
In recent seasons, Newcastle have established themselves as somewhat of a bogey side for arguably the best team in world football. It started back in 2023 when Eddie Howe’s United side thrashed PSG 4-1 at St James’ Park before a controversial 1-1 draw at Parc des Princes in the reverse fixture.
Newcastle looked set to do a group stage double over PSG only for a stoppage-time VAR intervention to award a last-gasp penalty which was converted by Kylian Mbappe. Tino Livramento’s dubious handball offence also prompted changes to the application of the rules and resulted in an apology to Newcastle by UEFA.
Last season, Newcastle thwarted PSG once again with a 1-1 draw at Parc des Princes. Joe Willock cancelled out Vitinha’s early strike while Nick Pope saved an Ousmane Dembele penalty.
Once again, Newcastle left Paris feeling like they should have got more from the game with Harvey Barnes missing a golden chance to win the game in the closing stages. The draw saw PSG miss out on qualifying automatically for the last-16 of the Champions League but it ultimately didn’t impact them too much as they went on to win the competition.
And when PSG’s impressive record against English teams was put to Enrique last season, he was quick to remind people of the difficulties Newcastle caused his side.
“We were analysing our victories against English teams, but you forget Newcastle,” he said. “We couldn’t win against Newcastle in the three matches that we played in those three years; we lost one and drew two.”
McCoist’s comments have understandably been the subject of some debate online over the past 24 hours. The former Sunderland and Rangers striker may have simply forgotten about Newcastle during his live commentary, or genuinely believed what he was saying about Villa.
While Newcastle can take the crown of being PSG’s bogey team, they unfortunately may have to wait a while before they face them in a competitive game again.