Paxten Aaronson’s stellar loan spell at FC Utrecht continued Saturday at the home of the reigning Eredivisie champions.
Aaronson scored his sixth goal of the season as Utrecht earned a 2-2 draw with PSV. Despite conceding a late equalizer, the third-place side earned another positive result against one of the Eredivisie’s best clubs.
The 21-year-old Aaronson headed home Oscar Fraud’s cross into the bottom-right corner to give Utrecht a then 2-1 lead. It marked Aaronson’s eighth goal contribution for the club this season.
He finished the match with three tackles completed, six duels won, and one interception made.
Aaronson and FC Utrecht will next host NAC Breda on Saturday, March 1.
In Italy, Weston McKennie and Tim Weah both went the distance in Juventus’ derby win over Inter Milan. Yunus Musah and Christian Pulisic both featured in AC Milan’s home victory.
In England, Daryl Dike made his return for West Bromwich Albion. Josh Sargent continued his hot goalscoring run for Norwich City. Tyler Adams and Antonee Robinson both enjoyed victories in EPL action.
In Germany, Gio Reyna and Borussia Dortmund suffered another disappointing loss. James Sands went the distance for St. Pauli but suffered multiple injuries. Joe Scally and Borussia Moenchengladbach earned three points on the road at Union Berlin.
In France, Tanner Tessmann helped Lyon to a crucial three points away from home. Crystal Dunn assisted once for PSG’s women’s side.
Elsewhere, Griffin Yow registered an assist for the third-straight match. Alex Zendejas assisted once in Club America’s loss. Marlon Fossey and Standard Liege suffered a home loss. Cameron Carter-Vickers, Auston Trusty, and Jonathan Tomkinson all earned three points in SPFL play. George Bello and LASK were held to a 0-0 draw on the road.
Here is a closer look at this weekend’s Americans Abroad:
England
Premier League
Antonee Robinson started and played 90 minutes in Fulham’s 2-1 win over Nottingham Forest on Saturday.
Chris Richards started and played 90 minutes in Crystal Palace’s 2-1 loss to Everton on Saturday.
Matt Turner dressed but did not play for Crystal Palace.
Tyler Adams started and played 90 minutes in Bournemouth’s 3-1 win over Southampton on Saturday.
Championship
Aidan Morris started and played 90 minutes in Middlesbrough’s 1-0 loss to Watford on Saturday.
Josh Sargent started, scored ONE GOAL, and played 77 minutes in Norwich City’s 1-1 draw with Hull City on Saturday.
Brenden Aaronson and Leeds United host Sunderland on Monday.
Daryl Dike came off the bench and played 13 minutes in West Bromwich Albion’s 1-1 draw with Millwall on Saturday.
Ethan Horvath dressed but did not play in Cardiff City’s 1-1 draw with Bristol City on Saturday.
Luca Koleosho did not dress (Injury Knock) in Burnley’s 0-0 draw with Preston North End on Saturday.
Duane Holmes is OUT (Injury) for Preston North End.
Haji Wright is OUT (Injury) for Coventry City.
Caleb Wiley is OUT (Injury) for Watford.
Lynden Gooch is OUT (Injury) for Stoke City.
League One
Donovan Pines started and played 90 minutes in Barnsley’s 2-1 loss to Huddersfield Town on Saturday.
WSL
Emily Fox started, scored ONE GOAL, and played 90 minutes in Arsenal’s 5-0 win over Tottenham on Sunday.
Phallon Tullis-Joyce started, made ONE SAVE, and played 90 minutes in Manchester United’s 3-1 win over Crystal Palace on Sunday.
Catarina Macario started and played 51 minutes in Chelsea’s 2-1 win over Everton on Sunday.
Naomi Girma did not dress for Chelsea.
Mia Fishel is OUT (Injury) for Chelsea.
Germany
Bundesliga
James Sands started and played 90 minutes in St. Pauli’s 1-0 loss to Freiburg on Saturday. Sands suffered multiple injuries in the match and has now been ruled out indefinitely.
Joe Scally started and played 74 minutes in Borussia Moenchengladbach’s 2-1 win over Union Berlin on Saturday.
Gio Reyna started and played 10 minutes in Borussia Dortmund’s 2-0 loss to Bochum on Saturday.
Cole Campbell did not dress for Borussia Dortmund.
Lennard Maloney came off the bench and played 11 minutes in Mainz’s 2-0 win over Heidenheim on Sunday.
Noahkai Banks dressed but did not play in Augsburg’s 0-0 draw with RB Leipzig on Friday.
John Tolkin did not dress in Holstein Kiel’s 3-1 loss to Eintracht Frankfurt.
Timmy Chandler did not dress for Eintracht Frankfurt.
Kevin Paredes is OUT (Injury) for Wolfsburg.
2. Bundesliga
Damion Downs started and played 90 minutes in Cologne’s 3-0 loss to Magdeburg on Friday.
Johan Gomez started and played 86 minutes in Eintracht Braunschweig’s 1-0 win over Darmstadt on Saturday.
Maximilian Dietz came off the bench and played 45 minutes in Greuther Furth’s 2-0 loss to Elversberg on Saturday.
Julian Green did not dress (Illness) for Furth.
John Brooks did not dress (Ankle Injury) in Hertha Berlin’s 2-1 loss to Fortuna Dusseldorf on Saturday.
3. Liga
Terrence Boyd did not dress in Waldhof Mannheim’s 5-0 win over Hansa Rostock on Saturday.
Spain
La Liga
Johnny Cardoso started and played 90 Real Betis 3-0 win over Real Sociedad on Sunday.
Italy
Serie A
Yunus Musah started and played 90 minutes in AC Milan’s 1-0 win over Hellas Verona on Saturday.
Christian Pulisic came off the bench and played 22 minutes for AC Milan.
Tim Weah, Weston McKennie started and played 90 minutes in Juventus 1-0 win over Inter on Sunday.
Gianluca Busio and Venezia visit Genoa on Monday.
Serie B
Kristoffer Lund started and played 60 minutes in Palermo’s 2-2 draw with Mantova on Sunday.
Andrija Novakovich is OUT (Injury) for Bari.
France
Ligue 1
Tanner Tessmann started and played 90 minutes in Lyon’s 4-1 win over Montpellier on Sunday.
Mark McKenzie came off the bench and played 20 minutes in Toulouse’s 1-0 loss to PSG on Saturday.
Jordan Pefok is OUT (Injury) for Stade Reims.
Folarin Balogun is OUT (Shoulder Injury) for AS Monaco.
Division 1 Feminine
Crystal Dunn started, registered ONE ASSIST, and played 79 minutes in Paris Saint-Germain’s 4-1 win over Montpellier on Saturday.
Korbin Albert, Eva Gaetino did not dress for PSG.
Lindsey Horan started and played 65 minutes in Lyon’s 7-0 win over Guingamp on Saturday.
Netherlands
Eredivisie
Paxten Aaronson started, scored ONE GOAL, and played 90 minutes in FC Utrecht’s 2-2 draw with PSV on Saturday.
Richie Ledezma started and played 90 minutes for PSV.
Taylor Booth came off the bench, registered ONE ASSIST, and played 12 minutes in FC Twente’s 2-0 win over RKC Waalwijk on Sunday.
Sergino Dest, Malik Tillman, Ricardo Pepi are OUT (Injury) for PSV.
Eerste Divisie
Zach Booth did not dress in Excelsior’s 1-1 draw with Helmond Sport on Sunday.
KNVB Women’s Cup
Lily Yohannes started and played 84 minutes in Ajax’s 2-0 loss to FC Twente on Saturday.
Belgium
Pro League
Griffin Yow started, registered ONE ASSIST, and played 82 minutes in Westerlo’s 1-1 draw with Cercle Brugge on Sunday.
Bryan Reynolds did not dress for Westerlo.
Marlon Fossey started and played 90 minutes in Standard Liege’s 2-1 loss to Genk on Friday.
First Division B
Justin Che and Patro Eisden’s scheduled match with Deinze on Friday was postponed.
Scotland
Premiership
Cameron Carter-Vickers, Auston Trusty started and played 90 minutes in Celtic’s 3-0 win over Dundee United on Saturday. Trusty also registered ONE ASSIST.
Jonathan Tomkinson started and played 90 minutes in Ross County’s 3-0 win over Motherwell on Saturday.
Dante Polvara did not dress in Aberdeen’s 2-1 win over Dundee FC on Saturday.
Austria
Bundesliga
George Bello started and played 86 minutes in LASK’s 0-0 draw with Grazer on Sunday.
Wales
Premier League Playoffs
Matt Olosunde and TNS are off until February 21.
Greece
Super League
Erik Palmer-Brown did not dress in Panathinaikos 2-1 win over NFC Volos on Sunday.
Jonathan Gomez did not dress in PAOK Salonika’s 7-0 win over Lamia on Sunday.
Croatia
HNL
Rokas Pukstas dressed but did not play in Hajduk Split’s 1-1 draw with Istra 1961 on Saturday.
Denmark
Superliga
Jonathan Amon came off the bench and played 31 minutes in Lyngby’s 1-0 loss to FC Midtjylland on Sunday.
Matthew Hoppe came off the bench and played 16 minutes in Sonderjyske’s 4-1 loss to AGF on Sunday.
Mexico
Liga MX
Alex Zendejas started, registered ONE ASSIST, and played 86 minutes in Club America’s 3-2 loss to Necaxa on Friday.
Cade Cowell dressed but did not play in Chivas 2-1 loss to Toluca on Saturday.
Frankie Amaya dressed but did not play for Toluca.
Aaronson got up there in that header over fellow American, Ledezma. Kid has a vertical hop.
Hopefully Tomkinson can start to build up the next few years and move to a better league.
Good to see Yow heating back up. Needs a move this summer.
Paxten Aaronson continuing his good season. Don’t know where he may fit in with Eintracht. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a permanent move away from Eintracht in the summer. But in saying that the coaching staff really do like Paxtens game at Eintracht.
Zendejas making a big case to be on the Nations league roster.
Why was Gio taken off after 10 mins???SMH 🤦‍♂️Here we go again(In my DMX voice)
He only came in with 10 minutes left and finished the game.
For me as a BVB fan it makes me so frustrated that both coaches they’ve had this season seem to not realize what is missing from the team is exactly what Gio would provide – creativity through the midfield. This team is all about send it wide and hope for a moment of individual brilliance from Gittens or Adeyemi (or Malen), But there is nothing happening in the middle of the park. Gross has been very disappointing and I’d start Reyna over Sabitzer any day. Reyna offers more going forward and has improved defensively. Gross can and should be able to cover any defensive drop from Sabitzer to Reyna if there is any.
This season Reyna has only had 2 Bundesliga appearances of over 25 minutes. In those games he has 2 goals. His CL minutes have been more plentiful – 4 appearances of more than 25 minutes and has one assist. So put together – in six games with more than 25 minutes he has 3 goal contributions.
In the last game BVB was down 2-0 at half. The coach makes a sub at halftime. He brings on a DM (and not a good one) to start the second half and takes out Sabitzer – the more attacking of the midfielders. He went MORE defensive when he needed goals. Needless to say they didn’t score any goals at all.
So frustrating as a BVB fan and a USMNT fan.
The USMNT starters are now maturing into the leaders and key players for their teams that they were too young and inexperienced to be in the last WC cycle – Pulisic and Musah regularly going 90 for AC and Pulisic being a team leader (watching Musah mature this season has been so great to watch), McKennie and Weah the same at Juventus with McKennie becoming a leader – even captaining the Old Lady for a CL game, Jedi the MVP of his team in the Prem, Adams starting and doing the only thing he knows how to do – be a leader on the field. That old argument – that I made – about being a squad player on a big team doesn’t equal greatness (there are many countries with rosters similar to the US that you would think could compete to win a WC). But that argument is less and less viable. These guys are playing against the best of the best week in and week out and their teams are depending on them to lead the charge and they are meeting most of the challenges.
Reyna has the talent to be one of these guys and should be but for whatever reason a BVB that is having a terrible season can’t put the guy on the field for more that 25 freaking minutes more than six times?! We are down 2-0 to BOCHUM and you bring on Ozcan at halftime??? It’s ridiculous.
Thanks for explaining Master of The Obvious. I am glad our players are getting valuable mins. Wish Reyna and Campbell would get consistent playing time.
This was about my exact comment, but I did not get to it yet. I am also a BVB fan and very frustrated with the team and coaching. They continue to roll out the same line-up (with maybe an exception on the back line) game after game. It is not like the team has been winning in league play lately with this line-up. Since returning after the break they have 1-W / 1-T / 5-L. The 1 win came against a team in the bottom 3, and 2 of the losses came against the other 2 teams in the bottom 3.
I agree they are missing the creativity and should give Reyna a shot, not just 10 minutes here or there at the end of the game. Gittens constantly goes down the left hand side, gets to the 18 yard box and tries to cut it back on his right for a shot. Too predictable. Adeyemi just tries to beat everyone from the right hand side with his speed.
With the team really struggling this much lately and they have nothing in the offensive third, they still do not give a Reyna a shot. Maybe there is more than we see, but I have not seen anything reported about Reyna. I honestly think he needs to find a new home where he plays. Obviously his time at BVB is done, if the past coach and now current coach (even though only 2 games in) will not give him more minutes. When he does enter the game you can see he has the vision that the other players just do not have.
On another note, I really enjoyed watching McKennie and Weah against Inter yesterday.
Matt R yeah I didn’t watch the game, so I thought he was yanked after 10 mins cause he was injured or not playing well how article was worded lol.
Given his track record Nico is more about settling the team defensively first. This goes against BVB’s DNA but it is also why Nico was brought in.
It doesn’t look like BVB will qualify for Europe next season so they have to sell one of their wunderkids. Gittens probably brings in the most cash.
If Gio can’t find a way to work himself into the lineup and Nico is successful and stays then Gio will probably leave.
Mark – sheeshhh, right?!
Vacqui – it’s true about the solidifying the defense (many new coaches start with that and it’s needed – betting “both teams to score” on BVB and AC Milan games is usually allowing me not to lose ALL my money these days) and that is the only reason I can see for the Nico’s decisions again Bochum. However that explains more his starting lineup that the changes he made after being 2-0 down.
“that is the only reason I can see for the Nico’s decisions again Bochum. However that explains more his starting lineup that the changes he made after being 2-0 down.”
I have never been a manager
I certainly have never been a manager who has come into a situation like BVB, where it seems clear that a lot of the front office types have very strong views about which players should play. It seems like he has to manage upward with this batch of strong egotistical “know it alls” looking over his shoulder.
Nico is well respected, but BVB’s player pool is probably all new to him. And while he is well respected, he does not have the kind of clout that a rockstar like Pep, Ancelloti or even a Pochettino has.
The point is I can see where Nico might still be at the stage where he’s trying to figure out which players would work for what Nico wants to do.
BVB did not go from a title contending team full of top players to crap overnight.
And they are not going to get back to the top overnight either.
Gio might be very useful for this motley collection in terms of getting them back to mediocrity quicker but his career would probably best be served by going elsewhere .
You can only be the “Eternal Prospect” for so long.
Yow starting to heat back up 2g 3a in last 7 matches. Assists in 3 straight matches.