Tottenham Hotspur's Andros Townsend (R) celebrates with teammates Kyle Walker (C) and Lewis Holtby after scoring a goal against Aston Villa during their Premier League match at Villa Park in Birmingham Sunday. — Reuters BIRMINGHAM — Man of the moment Andros Townsend and Roberto Soldado both scored as Tottenham restated its Champions League credentials with a 2-0 win at Aston Villa in the Premier League Sunday. Following a shock 3-0 home defeat to rival West Ham, the London club claimed its fifth league win of the season to move to fifth in the standings, three points behind leader Arsenal. Townsend scored in his England debut last week in a 4-1 win over Montenegro before impressing in a 2-0 victory over Poland that secured a place at next year's World Cup. The 22-year-old winger scored his first Premier League goal for Tottenham as Spurs broke the deadlock against the run of play in the 31st minute. Soldado doubled the lead in the 69th with a clean finish from Paulinho's clever pass. “Andros Townsend had a great game. He didn't start well but really picked up after his goal. He is a great threat. (With) his pace and ability to beat a man, he takes the team forward,” Villas-Boas said. Fiorentina stuns Juventus Giuseppe Rossi scored a hat trick Sunday as Fiorentina came back from two goals down to stun two-time defending champion and fierce rival Juventus 4-2 in Serie A. Carlos Tevez and Paul Pogba gave Juventus a 2-0 halftime lead but Rossi struck back with goals in the 65th, 76th and 80th and Spanish forward Joaquin added his first Serie A strike in the 78th. Rossi has eight goals through eight rounds. The United States-born forward was recently called back into Italy's national team after two years of injuries and three surgeries. “The goals were great but we really reacted well as a squad in the second half,” Rossi said. “We showed a lot of courage and a lot of heart. We can play with anyone.” After its first loss, Juventus remained tied with Napoli five points behind Roma, which beat Napoli 2-0 Friday to extend its winning start to eight matches. Fiorentina is fifth, nine points back. Promoted Hellas Verona is fourth, one point ahead of Fiorentina, after beating Parma 3-2 with a goal from Fabrizio Cacciatore and two penalties from Jorginho — one earned by former Italy forward Luca Toni. Fiorentina had not beaten Juventus at home since December, 1998, when Gabriel Batistuta was the club's key scorer. Juventus doesn't have much time to regroup, with a match at Real Madrid in the Champions League Wednesday. “The match was closed,” Juventus coach Antonio Conte said. “Then something unthinkable happened. We lost a match that we were dominating. But that's football. ... We need to learn something from this.” In other matches, it was: Atalanta 2, Lazio 1; Genoa 2, Chievo Verona 1; Livorno 1, Sampdoria 2; Sassuolo 2, Bologna 1. Honduras stays unbeaten Honduras drew 2-2 with Slovakia at the Mohammad Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi to remain undefeated in the FIFA U-17 World Cup Football Championship Sunday. In another match, Uruguay rescued a point against Côte d'Ivoire with a 1-1 draw. Saturday's results: Nigeria 6, Mexico 1; Austria 2, Canada 2; Sweden 4, Iraq 1 and Argentina 1, Iran 1. — Agencies
