UNAI Emery’s Aston Villa was defeated in its fight for a place in Europe by losing a draw (1-1) at home against the West Ham. A failure leaving ‘the villains’, eighth on the table, 3 points behind Chelsea (6th).
Meanwhile, Graham Potter scored on his first trip since the dismissal of Julen Lopetegui’s ousted after a debut at home against Fulham (3-2) followed by a defeat against the Crystal Palace also at home ( 0-2).
Emery, it’s on the stand
With UNAI Emery at the stands while he was suspended for seeing the yellow card in the previous fight against the Arsenal, the Aston Villa began the fight that looked like a steamroller and soon to open the scoring.
Jacob Ramsey, after forming a one-two with Ollie Watkins, exploded in a powerful area and crossed before leaving the Alphonse Aréola. It was the 8th minute and shortly after Leon Bailey made it 2-0, but this time the French goalkeeper hindered the goal.
‘Hammers’ reaction
West Ham suffered defense, weakened by the lack of center-backs Jean-Clair Todibo and Konstantinos Mavropanos, who were suspended after being evicted on the previous day of the fight against the Crystal Palace, so Graham Potter had to put in full- Vladimir Coufal is back on the back axis.
However, ‘Hammers’ has done little to control the game, though not creating any attack opportunities, while the only gunfire is Aston Villa, who highlights a header from Watkins to approach the post after a free kick by Yuri Tielemans (35). ‘).
Before the break, in the extra time, the West Ham warned that there was a good chance, a double shot, Mohammed Kudus’ first was blocked by Tielemans and Lucas Paquetá’s second was barely reached the target.
stroke of the rudder
After the restart the Londoners came out ready to go up and took control of the fight. Paquetá, again, made it 1-1 in a turn shot to expand (53 ‘).
Carlos Soler became the closest to the scoring, whose attempt was taken to Ezir Konsa’s line after Dibu Martínez did not clear a kudus cross when he collided with his partner Matty Cash (61 ‘).
Emerson is sympathetic
Finally, the West Ham found the reward for their perseverance when Emerson Palmieri stabbed by inserting a beautiful cross from Edson álvarez to the net (70 ‘).
In the final stage of the fight, both teams sought the goal to decide on the fight but no success. There are opportunities in both places, such as a shot from the newly known Danny Ings that just exceeded the post.
The excitement continued until the last game, when Ings scored but the goal was not allowed because of Tomas Soucek’s earlier offside.
Aston Villa, which loses Tuesday in Monaco’s Champions League (1-0), is now focused on the decisive fight on Wednesday, where they will play, at home against the Celtic, the direct passage of the round of 16 on the last day of the league stage of the leading competition in Europe.
LINEUP of the fight
23
2
12
44
4
5
31
8
11
27
41
23
29
33
3
26
5
28
19
10
14
4
Villa Park
Alphonse Areola23
Aaron Wan-Bissaka29
Emerson33
69 ‘
74 ”
Aaron Cresswell3
49 ‘
Maximilian kilman26
37 ‘
Vladimir Coufal5
64 ”
Tomas Soucek28
62 ”
49 ‘
Edson Alvarez19
67 ‘
88 ‘
65 ‘
Lucas Paquetá10
63 ‘
71 ‘
Mohammed Kudus14
96 ‘
7 ”
72 ”
Carlos Soler4
74 ”
Replacements
Lukasz Fabianski1
Wes Foderingham21
37 ‘
Kaelan Casey42
Ollie Scarles57
74 ”
72 ”
Guido Rodriguez24
96 ‘
71 ‘
Andy Irving39
88 ‘
65 ‘
Lewis Orford61
Luis Guilherme17
64 ”
Danny ings18
74 ”
coach
UNAI Emery
Graham Potter
Source: La Verdad
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