Aston Villa · Spain · 54 yrs
TOM COLLOMOSSE AT VILLA PARK: The skeleton of the North Stand at Villa Park was an apt background to Unai Emery's grand rebuilding project at Aston Villa.
Aston Villa did not trouble David Raya in the Arsenal goal as they suffered back-to-back Premier League defeats, but Unai Emery is upbeat. The post Emery insists Villa took ‘step forward’ versus Arsenal despite lack of goal threat appeared first on SoccerNews.
The smile on Declan Rice’s face with six minutes of normal time remaining said it all. He had just shut down Ian Maatsen as the Aston Villa full-back zoomed into the box. Arsenal, for whom Bukayo Saka scored the only goal, were authoritative and seemingly took great satisfaction in keeping Villa at arm’s length.Unai Emery’s work‑in‑progress side struggled to test the champions, David Raya untroubled. The records will show Villa have lost their first two league matches of a season without scoring for the first time since 2002 but, despite successive defeats, this time there was no capitulation. Continue reading...
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