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Game #5645

Aston Villa

Sunday, 13 November 2022

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Won

12th (+1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

Premier League

Brighton & Hove Albion

AMEX Stadium

Attendance: 31,581

🟩 13 November 2022, Villa 2-1 Brighton, AMEX Stadium

Brighton & Hove Albion

1-2

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Douglas Luiz | 53' |

🟩 13 November 2022, Villa 2-1 Brighton, AMEX Stadium

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MATCH TIMELINE

Sunday, 13 November 2022

🥅 | 1’ Goal, 0-1, (Brighton & Hove Albion), Alex Mac Allister
⚽ | 19’ Goal, 1-1, Danny Ings, pen
🟨 | 25’ Booking, Tyrone Mings for a tug back
🕒 | HT Brighton & Hove Albion 1-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 53’ Goal, 2-1, Danny Ings, Assist by Douglas Luiz
🔁 | 69’ Sub off, Jacob Ramsey, Sub on Ashley Young
🔁 | 74’ Sub off, Emiliano Buendía, Sub on, Leon Bailey
🟨 | 78’ Booking, Matty Cash for Timewasting
🟨 | 79’ Booking, Leon Bailey for a bad foul
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Douglas Luiz, Sub on, Leander Dendoncker
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Lucas Digne, Sub on, Ludwig Augustinsson
🔁 | 82’ Sub off, Danny Ings, Sub on, Cameron Archer
🟨 | 83’ Booking, Ashley Young
🟨 | 84’ Booking, Boubacar Kamara
🟨 | 90’+7 Booking, Emiliano Martínez
🟨 | 90’+7 Booking, John McGinn
🕒 | FT Brighton & Hove Albion 1-2 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Possession F | 35%
Possession A | 65%
Shots F | 8
Shots A | 7
Shots on Target F | 2
Shots on Target A | 2
Corners F | 4
Corners A | 11
Fouls F | 11
Fouls A | 14

🟩 13 November 2022, Villa 2-1 Brighton, AMEX Stadium

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ON THIS DAY

Sunday, 13 November 2022

  • Clear organisation. Focus. Commitment. Passion. Football. Another 3 points. 

  • Villa survive a dreadful refereeing performance from the first seconds onwards, totally losing control of a game that didn’t change in its format from kick off - Brighton foul, often cynically and often collectively with barely any focus on cohesive football. Quite why then his eight card flurry after 75’ happened is a mystery.

  • Ezri Konsa makes his 115th appearance and 110th start for Villa to make it W42 D22 L51, 6 Goals, 3 Assists, 16 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

  • Douglas Luiz contributes his 10th assist for Villa on his 127th appearance (110 Starts) to make it W44 D23 L60, 7 Goals, 10 Assists, 30 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.

🟩 13 November 2022, Villa 2-1 Brighton, AMEX Stadium

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Brighton & Hove Albion

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Brighton & Hove Albion

Previous 5 vs. Brighton: 🟨 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩

Brighton & Hove Albion

PREVIOUS MATCH

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Brighton & Hove Albion

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2022-23 |
Matchday | #17 |
League Game | #15 |
Manager Game | #3 |
Sunday, 13 November 2022
Attendance | 31,581 |

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🟩 13 November 2022, Villa 2-1 Brighton, AMEX Stadium

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | Hondarribia, 2022-
Referee: Chris Kavanagh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ashton-under-Lyne, 2014-
Kick off: 2.00pm
Half Time Score: 🟨 1-1
Full Time Result: 🟩 Won
Full Time Score: 🟩 2-1
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | 2022-

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 3 | 🟩 | 2 🟨 | 0 🟥 1 | 2.00

Villa Career Form:

Top 4

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | 2022-

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Chris Kavanagh | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ashton-under-Lyne, 2014- 🆘
Matches Officiated: 16
🟩 : 5
🟨 : 5
🟥 : 6
🆘 : 3
Previous 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟨
Last Match: 🟨 15 May 22, Villa 1-1 Palace (h)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Dan Cook, Dan Robathan.
Fourth official: Graham Scott.
VAR: Jarred Gillett.
Assistant VAR: James Mainwaring.

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Tyrone Mings
🟨 Matty Cash for Timewasting
🟨 Leon Bailey, Bad foul
🟨 Ashley Young
🟨 Boubacar Kamara
🟨 Emiliano Martínez
🟨 John McGinn

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🟨 Pascal Groß
🟨 Moisés Caicedo
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🟩 13 November 2022, Villa 2-1 Brighton, AMEX Stadium

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Unai Emery reverts to Villa’s first string after the paucity of the former manager’s signings were laid bare on Thursday night. (As an aside the #1 focus over the mid season break surely has to be a competent back up ‘keeper to Martínez.)

In come the aforementioned Martínez, as does Cash, Mings, Digne and Buendía. McGinn keeps a starting berth, as does Kamara whilst Bailey drops to the bench.

There’s no place in the squad for Nakamba.

Starting XI Average Age: | 26.69 |
Bench Average Age: | 28.31 |
Squad Average Age: | 27.50 |
Subs Average Age: | 27.96 |
Oldest Starter: CF Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30.68 |
Youngest Starter: M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21.48 |
Oldest Squad Player: RB Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 37.37 |
Youngest Squad Player: CF Cameron Archer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.94 |
Oldest Substitute: RB Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 37.37 |
Youngest Substitute: CF Cameron Archer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.94 |

Referee
Manager

🟩 13 November 2022, Villa 2-1 Brighton, AMEX Stadium

MANAGER

Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | 2022-

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Aston Villa

GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | 🟨 |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | 🟨 |
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | 🔁 |
M Boubacar Kamara | 🇫🇷 | 🟨 |
M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ©️ | 🟨 |
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Roberto de Zerbi | 🇮🇹 |

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Brighton & Hove Albion

GK Robert Sánchez | 🇪🇸 |
M Pascal Groß | 🇩🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Lewis Dunk | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Levi Colwill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Pervis Estupiñán | 🇪🇨 | 🔁 |
M Alexis Mac Allister | 🇦🇷 | ⚽ |
M Moisés Caicedo | 🇪🇨 | 🟨 |
M Solly March | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Adam Lallana | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Leandro Trossard | 🇧🇪 |
CF Danny Welbeck 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 13 November 2022, Villa 2-1 Brighton, AMEX Stadium

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | W Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | for M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 69’ |
🔁 | W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | 🟨 | for W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | 74’ |
🔁 | LB Ludwig Augustinsson | 🇸🇪 | for LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | 82’ |
🔁 | M Leander Dendoncker | 🇧🇪 | M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | 82’ |
🔁 | CF Cameron Archer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 82’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | F Julio Enciso | 🇵🇾 | for M Adam Lallana | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 5’ |
🔁 | RB Joël Veltman | 🇳🇱 | for F Julio Enciso | 🇵🇾 | 59’ |
🔁 | CF Deniz Undav | 🇩🇪 | for CF Danny Welbeck 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 59’ |
🔁 | RB Tariq Lamptey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for LB Pervis Estupiñán | 🇪🇨 | 81’ |

Substitutes

🟩 13 November 2022, Villa 2-1 Brighton, AMEX Stadium

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 |
M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 |
CB Jan Bednarek | 🇵🇱 |
CB Calum Chambers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Jason Steele | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jan Paul van Hecke | 🇳🇱 |
M Billy Gilmour | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Evan Ferguson | 🇮🇪 |

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Squad Bios

🟩 13 November 2022, Villa 2-1 Brighton, AMEX Stadium

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI Cost: £167.83m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £42.30m
Team Cost: £210.13m
Squad Cost: £224.35m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 9/20
Homegrown: 2/20

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI Cost: £48.03m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 3/11
Subs Cost: £14.05m
Team Cost: £62.08m
Squad Cost: £69.39m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 8/20
Homegrown: 3/20

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | £19.58m |
GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 | £3.15m |

LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | £27.00m |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | £14.18m |
RB Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |
LB Ludwig Augustinsson | 🇸🇪 | Loan |

CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £20.60m |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £11.97m |
CB Calum Chambers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |
CB Jan Bednarek | 🇵🇱 | Loan |

M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | £15.12m |
M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | £14.22m |
M Leander Dendoncker | 🇧🇪 | £13.50m |
M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | £2.79m |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
M Boubacar Kamara | 🇫🇷 | Free |

W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | £34.56m |
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | £28.80m |

CF Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £31.59m |
CF Cameron Archer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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GK Robert Sánchez | 🇪🇸 | Youth |
GK Jason Steele | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |

RB Joël Veltman | 🇳🇱 | £0.90m |

CB Lewis Dunk | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
CB Jan Paul van Hecke | 🇳🇱 | Loan |
CB Levi Colwill | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Loan |

LB Pervis Estupiñán | 🇪🇨 | £15.63m |
RB Tariq Lamptey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £2.97m |

M Billy Gilmour | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | £7.31m |
M Alexis Mac Allister | 🇦🇷 | £7.20m |
M Moisés Caicedo | 🇪🇨 | £4.50m |
M Pascal Groß | 🇩🇪 | £2.70m |
M Solly March | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
M Adam Lallana | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |

W Leandro Trossard | 🇧🇪 | £18.00m |

F Julio Enciso | 🇵🇾 | £10.18m |
CF Deniz Undav | 🇩🇪 | £6.08m |
CF Danny Welbeck 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |
CF Evan Ferguson | 🇮🇪 | Free |

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UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 4 |
GK Jed Steer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Achilles, 6 Aug 2022 [17]
CB Diego Carlos | 🇧🇷 | Achilles, 20 Aug 2022 [15]
M Philippe Coutinho | 🇧🇷 | Quadricep, 6 Nov 2022 [3]
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Illness, 13 Nov 2022 [1]

Out On Loan | 13 |
W Indiana Vassilev | 🇺🇸 | Inter Miami
GK Viljami Sinisalo | 🇫🇮 | Burton
M Finn Azaz | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Plymouth
CF Louie Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | MK Dons
CF Wesley | 🇧🇷 | Levante
W Jaden Philogene-Bidace | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Cardiff
M Aaron Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Norwich
RB Kaine Kesler Hayden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Huddersfield
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Watford
W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | Basaksehir
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Watford
FB Ben Chrisene | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Kilmarnock
M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | QPR

Not Selected | 2 |
RB Frédéric Guilbert | 🇫🇷 |
M Marvelous Nakamba | 🇿🇼 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

“This was the perfect way to finish [before the World Cup break]. “We knew how tough it was going to be. “To come here and get the win was massive for us.” Danny Ings. --- “Today we were speaking about [Ings’] best position. “If he can have players to assist him with good balls he can be between two centre-backs. He played very well.” Unai Emery, --- “Every manager is different with their gameplans. As a player, it’s great because you know you’re going to improve. “As a team we were excellent today. We know how good a team they are. Our grit and determination got us over the line,” said Ings. “It’s never easy conceding so early but it woke us up. From that moment on we created a lot of chances. They were pushing and pushing. It was so difficult. We can to rely on our defensive shape. “You can see the confidence growing in the team now. [Emery] has made a lot [of difference]. He’s only been with us a short time but we’ve come a long way already. We’ll have a break now and try to implement as much as he wants to install with us.” Danny Ings doubles down and boy is it nice to hear. --- “I’m so proud of our players, of our work, of our supporters because they are so important for us. They were here and they are helping. We then transmitted our energy into our job. “Above all, though, an away win is important because we didn’t win before. The first step was to be competitive (away) because I know at home they were playing well and being competitive. We were not winning all of the matches they deserved but they challenged. “My challenge to them was to win away and we played very well in Manchester on Thursday until the last minutes when we didn’t keep our mentality like we wanted and I want to create. “But, today, our mentality was different. We were strong defensively and had to be. We were together and we had to be so focused on set-pieces from corners. We had some players out but, really, the job was fantastic.” “The players had been feeling that we were at the bottom of the Premier League. Two victories have given us confidence and six points, now we’re on 18. Now to achieve the next position we’re looking in front and up. I think confidence is coming into each player with each result. “Since the beginning we have been better. The six points will give us confidence and our challenge will come thinking to improve. “Think of each match we are going to play after the break against Liverpool at home and Tottenham away. They are very difficult matches but I want to create good spirit and to be organised defensively and be strong and good. “I think those six points give us calmness for the next work in the next weeks which will give us a good atmosphere. “Today, it was a very good match for Ings. His goal for us is very important and, if we can give him good opportunities to score, they will do. “I think the best news today for us is how we added some players. Ollie (Watkins) was ill and Ings took his opportunity fantastically.” Unai Emery. --- “Lucas Digne wasn’t aware he was there and almost a clearance becomes a tackle. “He just gets caught… it’s a penalty. He just wasn’t aware, I think it’s a penalty. VAR still looking at it but a Brighton player gets there before Lucas Digne. Did that say check complete? I thought it was going to be a certain penalty, especially from that angle. “I just can’t believe they haven’t give a penalty for that. I mean, I was just looking at that angle there, maybe there’s an angle in another position, I cannot believe they haven’t given a penalty. “How is that not a penalty? That angle there isn’t conclusive but the one behind, he’s kicked right through the back of his calf. Solly March gets a touch, I just don’t see how that’s not a penalty. Well you have got away with one there my friend and I think he’ll know that as well.” Jamie Carragher makes a total fool of himself …. Again.
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Sunday, 13 November 2022

**Danny Ings believes Aston Villa have “something to build on” after he scored twice to guide his side to their first Premier League away win of the season against Brighton.** Ings struck after Alexis Mac Allister had claimed Brighton’s fastest goal in the Premier League with an opener after just 49 seconds. “This was the perfect way to finish [before the World Cup break],” the Villa striker told BBC Sport. “We knew how tough it was going to be. “To come here and get the win was massive for us.” Mac Allister put Brighton ahead when he took the ball from Douglas Luiz, following a heavy pass from Villa keeper Emiliano Martinez, and slotted in. But Ings levelled from the penalty spot in the 20th minute after Lewis Dunk fouled John McGinn in the box. Despite the game being relatively open, Villa were better in the final third and they continued to cause problems for Brighton. Luiz made up for his earlier error when he played a part in his side’s 54th-minute winner. He challenged Mac Allister on the edge of the box before pushing the ball into the path of Ings who tucked away a calm finish at the near post. “Today we were speaking about [Ings’] best position,” added Villa boss Unai Emery. “If he can have players to assist him with good balls he can be between two centre-backs. He played very well.” Despite their bright start and having much of the possession in the game, Brighton did not do enough to trouble Villa keeper Martinez. They drop to seventh place, while Villa go into the break for the World Cup sitting in 12th, five points clear of third-bottom Nottingham Forest. Emery’s instant impact as Villa show fighting spirit Aston Villa have struggled on the road this season, but new manager Emery has already made an impact to change their fortunes. Villa beat Manchester United at home in his first game in charge and, after a Carabao Cup loss at the Old Trafford side in midweek, they have now picked up that crucial first league away win. Ings added: “Every manager is different with their gameplans. As a player, it’s great because you know you’re going to improve.” Emery’s men also scored two goals, another welcome boost given Villa had scored only three away from home before the trip to Brighton. It was a battling display, reflected in seven bookings for Villa players from nine in the match. Emery, whose side next host Liverpool on Boxing Day, will go into the break enthused by what he has seen since replacing Steven Gerrard. Brighton lack creative spark and falter under pressure Despite having more than 65 per cent of possession and putting Villa under late pressure, Roberto de Zerbi’s side failed to make their dominance count. Mac Allister’s early goal proved nothing more than a consolation and Brighton’s recent positive run came to a disappointing end. They followed up league wins against Chelsea and Wolves by beating leaders Arsenal in the Carabao Cup, but issues which were evident at Molineux last weekend were evident again. It took a late goal from Pascal Gross to claim the three points at Wolves after defensive errors had left the game in the balance at 2-2. Brighton had only two shots on target against Villa on Sunday and faltered under pressure to concede the decisive second goal.
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🟩 13 November 2022, Villa 2-1 Brighton, AMEX Stadium

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