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Game #5737

Aston Villa

3-0-0, 9 PTS

Tuesday, 22 October 2024

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Won

1st

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟩

Champions League

Bologna FC 1909

0-1-2, 1 PTS

Villa Park

Attendance: 41,847

🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

Aston Villa

2-0

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🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Tuesday, 22 October 2024

🟨 | 19’ Booking! (Bologna FC 1909), Riccardo Orsolini, Bad Foul
❗| 21’ Chance! Jhon Durán, Assist from Youri Tielemans saved by Skorupski
❗| 23’ Chance! John McGinn, shot saved by Skorupski
🟨 | 45’ Booking! (Bologna FC 1909), Stefan Posch
❗| 45’+2 Chance! Morgan Rogers, Assist from Leon Bailey saved by Skorupski
🕒 | 45’+3 HT Aston Villa 0-0 Bologna FC 1909
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Amadou Onana, Sub on, Ross Barkley
❗| 45’+2 Chance! Leon Bailey wide from Morgan Rogers’ assist
🟨 | 45’ Booking! (Bologna FC 1909), Charalampos Lykogiannis, Bad Foul
🟨 | 49’ Booking! Ross Barkley, Bad Foul
🟨 | 53’ Booking! (Bologna FC 1909), Remo Freuler, Bad Foul
⚽ | 55’ Goal!, 1-0, John McGinn
⚽ | 64’ Goal!, 2-0, Jhon Durán, Assist by Morgan Rogers
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Leon Bailey, Sub on, Jacob Ramsey
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Jhon Durán, Sub on, Ollie Watkins
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, John McGinn, Sub on, Jaden Philogene-Bidace
🔁 | 77’ (Bologna FC 1909), Sub off, Dan Ndoye, Sub on, Samuel Iling-Junior (Villa loanee)
🔁 | 78’ Sub off, Youri Tielemans, Sub on, Boubacar Kamara
❗| 86’ Chance! (Bologna FC 1909), Sam Beukema heads onto the post
❗| 90’+4 Chance! Jacob Ramsey one on one saved by Skorupski
🕒 | 90’+4 HT Aston Villa 2-0 Bologna FC 1909

Match Statistics

Villa Possession 53.3%
Opposition Possession 46.7%

Villa Shots 16
Opposition Shots 12

Villa Shots on Target 6
Opposition Shots on Target 4

Villa Shots off Target 4
Opposition Shots off Target 5

Villa Blocked Shots 6
Opposition Blocked Shots 3

Villa Touches in Box 33
Opposition Touches in Box 11

Villa Fouls 13
Opposition Fouls 9

Villa Corners 5
Opposition Corners 4

🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Tuesday, 22 October 2024

  • Villa secure their 50th win in European competition on their 104th appearance.

  • Diego Carlos secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 48th appearance to make it W25 D10 L13, 1 Goal and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.

  • Jhon Durán scores his 15th goal in a Villa shirt on his 12th start (61 Appearances) to make it W33 D12 L16 and 15 Goals so far in his Villa career.

  • Boubacar Kamara secures his 30th win under Unai Emery in 49 games under the Villa boss to make it 57 Games (52 Starts), W33 D16 L18, 1 Goal and 2 Assists so far in his Villa career.

  • John McGinn makes his 244th appearance in a Villa shirt moving level with the great Ron Wylie (1958-65) and ahead of John Gidman (1972-79)

  • Youri Tielemans makes his 40th start in a Villa shirt (57 Appearances) to make it W34 D11 L12, 4 Goals and 11 Assists so far in his Villa career.

  • Pau Torres makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (47 Starts) to make it W32 D9 L9, 2 Goals and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.

  • Unai Emery leads Villa to a 10 game unbeaten run for the third successsive season the only other manager to achieve that was John Gregory between 1998-99 and 2000-01.

  • Ollie Watkins secures his 50th win under Unai Emery on his 90th appearance under the Villa boss to make it 180 Appearances (168 Starts), W84 D31 L65, 75 Goals and 29 Assists so far in his Villa career.

🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

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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

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
Serie A Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
Coppa Italia Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1974-74

Aston Villa

💰 Total Squad Cost incl. Loans : €520.74m / £443.76m

🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Squad Size incl. Loans : 48

8th Highest Squad Cost of 20 Premier League Clubs in 2024-25


🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Squad Size excl. Loans : 35

* Goalkeepers : 4

* Defenders : 7

* Full Backs : 6

* Midfielders : 10

* Wingers : 4

* Forwards : 4


➡️   Loaned Out : 15 Players : €83.30m / £70.12m


💸 Last Transfer Window :

* Players In : 8

* Players Out : 12

* Fees Spent : €176.20m / £150.83m

* Fees Raised : €167.80m / £142.96m

* Profit on Sales : +€62.83m / +£53.53m

* Net Spend : +€8.40m / +£7.16m

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Bologna FC 1909

Previous 5 vs. Bologna: None

Bologna FC 1909

PREVIOUS MATCH

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Bologna FC 1909

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season: 2024-25
Matchday: #12
European Game: #3
Manager Game: #95
Date: Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Attendance: 41,847

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🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | Hondarribia, 2022-
Referee: João Pinheiro | 🇵🇹 | Braga, 2016-
Kick off: 8.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 2-0
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

🕒 95 | 🟩 | 53 🟨 | 17 🟥 25 | 1.85

Unai Emery has reached 50 wins faster than any other manager in Villa’s history.

Villa Career Form:

Top 4

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | 2022-

🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: João Pinheiro | 🇵🇹 | Braga, 2016-
Matches Officiated: 1
🟩 : 1
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 0
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: None
Last Match: None
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Bruno Jesus 🇵🇹, Luciano Maia 🇵🇹
Fourth official: João Gonçalves 🇵🇹
VAR: Tiago Martins 🇵🇹
Assistant VAR: Fedayi San 🇨🇭

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Ross Barkley, Bad Foul

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🟨 Riccardo Orsolini, Bad Foul
🟨 Stefan Posch
🟨 Charalampos Lykogiannis, Bad Foul
🟨 Remo Freuler, Bad Foul

🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

After 66 games and 14 months out Tyrone Mings returns to the matchday squad.

Referee
Manager

🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

MANAGER

Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | 2022-

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Aston Villa

GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 |
LB Ian Maatsen | 🇳🇱 |
CB Pau Torres | 🇪🇸 |
CB Diego Carlos | 🇧🇷 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Youri Tielemans | 🇧🇪 | 🔁 |
M Amadou Onana | 🇧🇪 | 🔁 |
M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Morgan Rogers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | 🔁 |
CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Vincenzo Italiano | 🇮🇹 |

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Bologna FC 1909

GK Lukasz Skorupski | 🇵🇱 |
LB Charalampos Lykogiannis | 🇬🇷 | 🟨 |
CB Jhon Lucumí | 🇨🇴 |
CB Sam Beukema | 🇳🇱 |
RB Stefan Posch | 🇦🇹 | 🟨 |
M Kacper Urbanski | 🇵🇱 | 🔁 |
M Remo Freuler | 🇨🇭 | 🟨 |
M Giovanni Fabbian | 🇮🇹 |
W Dan Ndoye | 🇨🇭 | 🔁 |
W Riccardo Orsolini | 🇮🇹 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
CF Thijs Dallinga | 🇳🇱 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Ross Barkley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | for M Amadou Onana | 🇧🇪 | 46’ |
🔁 | M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | 65’ |
🔁 | CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | 65’ |
🔁 | W Jaden Philogene-Bidace | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 65’ |
🔁 | M Boubacar Kamara | 🇫🇷 | for M Youri Tielemans | 🇧🇪 | 78’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CF Jens Odgaard | 🇩🇰 | for W Riccardo Orsolini | 🇮🇹 | 46’ |
🔁 | M Nikola Moro | 🇭🇷 | for M Kacper Urbanski | 🇵🇱 | 66’ |
🔁 | CF Santiago Castro | 🇦🇷 | for CF Thijs Dallinga | 🇳🇱 | 66’ |
🔁 | W Samuel Iling-Junior | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Dan Ndoye | 🇨🇭 | 77’ |

Substitutes

🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 |
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kosta Nedeljkovic | 🇷🇸 |
LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 |
RB Lamare Bogarde | 🇳🇱 |
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Federico Ravaglia | 🇮🇹 |
GK Nicola Bagnolini | 🇮🇹 |
CB Nicolò Casale | 🇮🇹 |
LB Tommaso Corazza | 🇮🇹 |
RB Emil Holm | 🇸🇪 |
LB Juan Miranda | 🇪🇸 |
M Tommaso Pobega | 🇮🇹 |

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

🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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SQUAD STATS

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🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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Goalkeepers
GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | 32 | €17.40m / £14.75m
GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 | 34 | €3.50m / £2.97m

Defenders
CB Pau Torres | 🇪🇸 | 27 | €33.00m / £27.97m
CB Diego Carlos | 🇧🇷 | 31 | €31.00m / £26.27m
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31 | €22.30m / £18.90m
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 26 | €13.30m / £11.27m

Full Backs
LB Ian Maatsen | 🇳🇱 | 22 | €44.50m / £37.71m
LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | 31 | €30.00m / £25.43m
RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | 27 | €15.75m / £13.35m
RB Kosta Nedeljkovic | 🇷🇸 | 18 | €7.60m / £6.44m
RB Lamare Bogarde | 🇳🇱 | 20 | Youth

Midfielders
M Amadou Onana | 🇧🇪 | 23 | €59.35m / £50.02m
M Morgan Rogers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22 | €9.40m / £7.97m
M Ross Barkley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 30 | €5.90m / £5.00m
M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 29 | €3.10m / £2.63m
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 23 | Youth
M Youri Tielemans | 🇧🇪 | 27 | Free
M Boubacar Kamara | 🇫🇷 | 24 | Free

Wingers
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | 27 | €32.00m / £27.12m
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | 27 | €38.40m / £32.54m
W Jaden Philogene-Bidace | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 22 | €16.00m / £13.47m

Forwards
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 28 | €34.00m / £28.82m
CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | 20 | €16.64m / £14.10m

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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Goalkeepers
GK Lukasz Skorupski | 🇵🇱 | 33 | €9.90m
GK Federico Ravaglia | 🇮🇹 | 24 | Youth
GK Nicola Bagnolini | 🇮🇹 | 20 | Free

Defenders
CB Jhon Lucumí | 🇨🇴 | 26 | €8.00m
CB Sam Beukema | 🇳🇱 | 25 | €7.98m
CB Nicolò Casale | 🇮🇹 | 26 | Loan

Full Backs
RB Emil Holm | 🇸🇪 | 24 | €7.70m
RB Stefan Posch | 🇦🇹 | 27 | €5.00m
LB Tommaso Corazza | 🇮🇹 | 20 | Youth
LB Charalampos Lykogiannis | 🇬🇷 | 31 | Free
LB Juan Miranda | 🇪🇸 | Free

Midfielders
M Giovanni Fabbian | 🇮🇹 | 21 | €5.37m
M Nikola Moro | 🇭🇷 | 26 | €2.50m
M Remo Freuler | 🇨🇭 | 32 | €1.90m
M Kacper Urbanski | 🇵🇱 | 20 | €750k
M Tommaso Pobega | 🇮🇹 | 25 | Loan

Wingers
W Riccardo Orsolini | 🇮🇹 | 21 | €15.00m
W Dan Ndoye | 🇨🇭 | 24 | €10.15m
W Samuel Iling-Junior | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 21 | Loan

Forwards
CF Thijs Dallinga | 🇳🇱 | 24 | €15.00m
CF Santiago Castro | 🇦🇷 | 20 | €13.20m
CF Jens Odgaard | 🇩🇰 | 25 | €4.28m

🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 0 |
None

Out on Loan | 15 |
1. M Philippe Coutinho | 🇧🇷 | €20.00m / £16.95m, 32, Vasco da Gama
2. M Tommi O'Reilly | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth, 20, Shrewsbury
3. GK Filip Marschall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth, 21, Crewe
4. W Lewis Dobbin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €11.80m / £10.00m, 19, West Bromwich Albion
5. CB Josh Feeney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth, 19, Shrewsbury
6. F Louie Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €1.00m / £850k, 21, Stockport
7. RB Kaine Kesler Hayden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth, 21, Preston
8. LB Lino Sousa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free, 19, Bristol Rovers
9. GK James Wright | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth, 19, Real Unión
10. LB Álex Moreno | 🇪🇸 | €13.50m / £11.44m, 31, Forest
11. CB Finley Munroe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth, 19, Real Unión
12. M Samuel Iling-Junior | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €14.00m / £11.89m, 20, Bologna
13. M Enzo Barrenechea | 🇦🇷 | €8.00m / £6.80m, 23, Valencia
14. M Rico Richards | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free, 20, Port Vale
15. M Leander Dendoncker | 🇧🇪 | €15.00m / £12.71m, 29, Anderlecht

Not Selected | 12 |
1. GK Joe Gauci | 🇦🇺 | 24 | €1.50m / £1.27m
2. GK Oliwier Zych | 🇵🇱 | 20 | Youth
3. CB Thierry Katsukunya | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Youth
4. CB Sil Swinkels | 🇳🇱 | 20 | Youth
5. CB Kortney Hause | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | €2.80m / £2.37m
6. RB Triston Rowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth
7. M Aidan Borland | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | €350k / €294k
8. M Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth
9. M Ben Broggio | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth
10. W Kadan Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 18 | Youth
11. F Travis Patterson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth
12. F Kobei Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES

"We love football, we love our work and to be successful. "We want to achieve individually and collectively our objectives. One of them of course is to play in the Champions League. We are there in this moment but I want to keep it for a long time. It is difficult. "Maybe sometimes you can have some problems but we have to be resilient in case they are coming. We have to be strong in our idea and in our mind, to create a strong mentality to try to break barriers always. "The most important thing is for us how we are increasing our demands and with those getting the objectives we are facing each year. "Two years ago we avoided a risk of relegation and even had time to get a position in the Conference League which was amazing in the first seven months we had here. "Last year we continued our process and we increased a lot our demands, getting the Chamoions League. The challenge is to get better every day and now how can we keep the same level we have now for a long time. That’s the most difficult thing. "When you achieve an objective at a high level, how can you be demanding and successful in keeping it. That’s the idea I have now. The club is in the same way. "The players are with the same message I am giving you here. The words I use repeatedly since I arrived here to now is I don’t want to waste my time here. "That’s the message for everyone. I don’t want you to waste your time here. We are professionals and we can get our best objectives individually and collectively. "We want to keep the level we have now, which is the Champions League and add something more like being a contender for a trophy." Unai Emery pre-match. "We are playing seriously, we are playing focused, responsible and the team is progressing and mature in everything. "We tried to break the press man to man. We conceded some things in the first 15 minutes but then reacted very well. "It is always difficult at home in Europe. We have had to try and be consistent in our gameplan for 90 minutes and I think we did that today." "Tactical decision [to bring off Onanabut as well he had some pain. Not clear. I decided tactically and also not take a risk with him." "They are working well. The commitment to help the team with quality and trying to understand as well. He [Duran] scored the goal and it was fantastic and he was wanting more because he was thinking he could score more goals. He did very good work and the last minutes is for Watkins and keep going," Unai Emery post match. "A brilliant win tonight. A tough opponent. "The manager is really onto us. He wants us to keep raising the bar every game. "I always try to improve myself. We had some really good work with the manager last year. He always gives us those challenges during the game, tonight we played a team who plays man to man and he challenged us to beat that. "Duran has everything, he has technique, he can hold the ball and can flick on. He is an all round striker. Morgan [Rogers] is more suited into the pockets. I joke with him calling him my pocket as I need him in those areas to get to my passes. "He [Duran] is really funny. The manager does not care. He knows everyone wants to play. It is part of the game." Youri Tielemans post match. "It is amazing. Obviously I missed out on the last night here at Villa Park [win against Bayern Munich] but three games in, three wins and most important for us is no goals conceded. "We don't want to stop here. It puts us in a great position. Some players came back and now we look really strong. "What we are building here is amazing. "This is home for me. It is my seventh season here, we've had ups and downs. It has been a rollercoaster. Hopefully we can keep climbing." John McGinn post match. "I am delighted for how we are facing this competition, each match playing disciplined and serious. The journey we had in Conference League was a perfect way helping this year because here we won 1-0 the last minute against Zrinjski. We came back after 1-0 losing against Legia and AZ Alkmaar. Those experiences were fantastic. "Champions League is more difficult, but we are respecting the opponents, the competition and our strength is the group and they are coming back. Today is very good news Kamara is coming back, Buendia, Tyrone Mings is coming too. I am pleased because we are enjoying it with our supporters. "Of course it is brilliant, our start in the competition. Young Boys, Bayern and today we kept the same mentality and fought for the group, respect for the group and try to impose our game plan. Today against one team, they are not getting the points like they deserve, but they are always playing being so tight the result. Today we created more chances than usually the opponent creates against them. Today we won because we deserved it. "We prepared the match trying to avoid the man-to-man, try to impose and stop them and then getting out of position. We did more or less, but 50 per cent was the duels. We won more individually and could get more in the attacking third with very good posits to threaten them. Teams like them sometimes for us is very difficult. We must improve always and it is an experience for the next match. Today was very good experience for us to try and analyse deeply how we can face matches like today. “We are going to focus on each match, how we are doing in the moment, we are arriving in a good position in the table. Of course, we won the first match away at Young Boys, we were thinking about the objective of the next round. Even winning in case, we were speaking against Bayern Munich we could get another objective in the top eight. “Today was a challenge again, the objective was to win and we were thinking about those three points. Of course, we are going to focus on the next match against Brugge. In the case we are keeping the same performances we are getting and getting points through it, of course we can change the objective to get in the top eight. “But I want to feel something like a natural way we are doing and not as a surprise because we are playing good performances. There are other teams contenders and favourites for the top eight, but we are of course feeling comfortable. “We struggled in August and September with some players coming back not fit or injured. We got points but we were thinking of the better moment with the players available to play like today or Saturday. “And now it’s a good moment as well to try to be intelligent, doing some changes and thinking about the best thing in each moment. I did this today after we won in Fulham because it was a really good moment to do it. “The response from the players was fantastic. Those in the starting XI, like Maatsen and John McGinn did well, Duran scored his goal and Konsa played in another position. Then we needed the fresh legs of Jacob Ramsey, Watkins, Jaden. “Kamara being back was perfect to try to have good news and of course, another player who can help us with their quality. “Yes, most of all for Emiliano Martinez! He is very happy! He is pushing a lot for clean sheets in matches. But really, I think this is the consequence of us being organised and disciplined tactically as well. It’s our strong structure we have to keep always. “Fantastic, his [Duran’s] first start in 11 matches this year. He played in a different moment. Always it is more difficult but he scored the goal. He was watching maybe his change, he accelerated to score. For us and him it was fantastic. It is good to try and manage. We will do it sometimes and when you get the performance today like Jhon Duran and Watkins it is the best for the team. “[On Duran’s angry reaction to be substituted] No, no, of course I am managing everything but everything we are sending the message in the dressing room, respect our values and try to be mature and responsible. Sometimes players react a bit but it is under my control.” Unai Emery post match. "It's strange. It is a bit of a contrast to our league form. We have been letting in a lot of goals in the league and that is something which has annoyed us. "But we are proud of where we are, top of the league table at the minute. It has put us in a great position to go and kick on. "Our aim is obviously to qualify first and foremost for the next round, but if we can take it into the top eight and carry this on it would be brilliant. "The manager has come in and he has done an unbelievable job. He has brought in a few players and he has developed those players as well. "This is a team going in the right direction. We are becoming a force. "There was a feeling about this game, whether they would maybe take the game too easy beforehand, and bologna came at them a bit. "But this team, they are learning and they are learning very, very quickly. "You have players like Ian Maatsen, who has not played an awful lot of football, coming into the team and does a superb job. Ross Barkley comes off the bench and does a good job, Jaden Philogene comes off the bench and does a good job. Then Morgan Rogers too, that kid is outstanding. "No matter what happens until now and whenever he leaves - we hope it's never - he will certainly go down as one of our club's greatest managers. "You feed off your leader. He is our leader and we feed off that. No-one can question what he puts in, the effort - and everything which comes his way and our way is on the back of hard work. "He is just so driven. I have never met anyone like him. "He just focuses his full energy all the time. "He does not let us take our foot off the gas so we can use all our energy and enthusiasm, and the excitement we have. His determination and intensity is unmatched. "I think he [Duran] just wanted to play more. "He wasn’t doing it in a bad way. I was there keeping an eye on him. He was just saying he was enjoying it and wanted another 10 minutes but we have the luxury of having him and Ollie, two top strikers. Long may that continue. "I knew I was coming off. I think that was just to protect the hamstring a little bit. I don’t know if he did. I think he was thinking I have just scored, keep me on. But it is football and on Saturday he will get another chance. "He has been brilliant. He is someone who is full of life, full of character. He has great humour. He has really come out of his shell, well, he wasn’t always in his shell but I think the sky is the limit for him. "He is so focused and he looks like he is really enjoying his football. I said to him in the dressing room tonight before the game, how many are you going to score? He said two but one will do. "We need to be at it. We watched them [Bournemouth] on the way back from Fulham when they beat Arsenal. They are a really good team who have caused us problems before. In this league you don’t get a break. You don’t get an easy team or an easy ride. Bournemouth are one of the teams in form at the minute and they will give us a tough game." John McGinn post match.
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🟩 22 October 2024, Villa 2-0 Bologna, Villa Park

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