Historic Aston Villa, European champions in 1982, have not participated in a continental tournament since 2010, thirteen years ago and its return at the hands of Unai Emery it has been amazing.
The ‘villain’ defeated Scottish Hibernians 5-0 at the Easter Road Stadium in Edinburgh in the first leg of the Conference League playoffs, the final qualifying round. A result that almost qualified them for the group stage of the competition.
Ollie Watkins, with a ‘hat trick’, he became the great architect of the little hand dAston Villa. The English forward scored in the 17th, 33rd and 48th minutes. Leon Bailey achieved the provisional 0-3 shortly before the break (42′) and douglas luiz established the final result by converting a penalty (74′).
The 0-5 win equaled Aston Villa’s biggest win in Europe in its entire history after beating Icelandic Valur in the European Cup in 1981 and Portuguese side Vitoria Guimaraes in the UEFA Cup in 1983 by the same result.
Dibu Martínez, replaced at halftime
The central Paul Torres, signed this summer from Villarreal, played 90 minutes in this historic game for Aston Villa, who returned to Europe thanks to the seventh place achieved last season in the Premier League. The only mole of the match was the substitution of the Argentine goalkeeper Dibu Martinez at break.
From mess to mess
In their last continental participation, the ‘villains’ fell in the 2010-2011 Europa League playoffs against Rapid Vienna. This season, after being overwhelmed on the first day of the Premier League match against Newcastle (5-1), he paid for it on Sunday with a 4-0 win against Everton, making it the second win in a row today for team of Emery.
Source: La Verdad
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