⚽ | 3’ Goal, 1-0 , John McGinn, Assist by Ollie Watkins
🗒️ | Superb Cash play on the wing into Watkins, Ollie heads it down and captain SJM makes no mistake
❗| 8’ Massive Chance! Villa spraying it nicely, McGinn to Digne, cross in but Watkins can’t reach
❗| 8’ Chance! a Cash crossshot is blocked, could easily have gone in
❗| 9’ Chance! McGinn 1-2, over
❗| 13’ Chance! Long ranger from Rogers, saved
❗| 14’ Chance! Lovely team move but Tielemans wide from the edge of the box
🗒️ | Breathless stuff from Villa at the minute, need to make this dominance count
❗| 27’ Chance! Under pressure Cash slices wide from the edge of the area
🥅 | 28’ Goal, 1-1, (RB Leipzig), Lois Openda
🗒️ | Totally against the run of play Leipzig equalise as Martínez completely messes up, suicidal decision making from Villa again
🗒️ | Against the run of play doesn’t do it justice, it was like men vs. boys out there, very lucky Leipzig, very stupid Villa
🗒️ | The one saving grace is the goal was totally unmerited so hopefully that’s them done, all now about how Villa react
❗| 37’ Chance! Rogers to Cash, shot, Leipzig ‘keeper all over the place but keeps it out, lucky lucky boy
⚽ | 44’ Goal, 2-1, Ollie Watkins, Assist by John McGinn
❌ | Offside, no need for VAR there
🟨 | 45’ Booking! Lucas Digne, not obvious why
❗| 45+1’ Chance! Watkins shoots, again an unconvincing save from the ‘keeper
🕒 | 45’+2 HT RB Leipzig 1-1 Aston Villa
🗒️ | Villa should be out of sight in this game but once again a stupid mistake has cost them badly
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Ollie Watkins, Sub on, Jhon Durán
❗| 48’ Chance! Jhon Durán wide
❗| 50’ Chance! Tielemans into Boubacar and his shot is saved
⚽ | 52’ Goal, 2-1, Jhon Durán, Assist by Youri Tielemans
🗒️ | Martínez had a shocker earlier but Leipzig’s keeper Gulácsi is awful, Youri tees up Durán and he makes no mistake from distance after a strong run
🗒️ | Totally deserved lead regained
❗| 55’ Chance! Rogers shoots over after skills on the edge of the area… Youri again had played him in. When Youri ticks, Villa are awesome.
⚽ | 58’ Goal, 3-1, Jhon Durán, Assist by Matty Cash
🎥 | 59’ VAR overturns the onfield decision…. is that the 5th goal overturned by VAR against Villa in the CL this season?
🥅 | 62’ Goal, 2-2, (RB Leipzig), Christoph Baumgartner
🗒️ | Unbelievably harsh, Leipzig with another totally undeserved equaliser, they simply have not been in the game, 2 “shots” 2 goals.
🗒️ | Suspect Villa will struggle from here, that has to demoralise and lift the homeside let alone the fortune
🗒️ | Martínez with really poor decision making there again
🗒️ | With luck like this Leipzig are certs to lift the Champions League
❗| 66’ Chance! Jhon Durán over
❗| 67’ Chance! Matty Cash shot blocked from Jhon Durán’s pass
❗| 69’ Chance! Youri Tielemans over
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Matty Cash, Sub on, Kosta Nedeljkovic
❗| 72’ Chance! Lucas Digne, super save by the ‘keeper
❗| 74’ Chance! Pau Torres heads Digne’s cross, ‘keeper saves
❗| 74’ Chance! Jhon Durán shot blocked
🔁 | 76’ Sub off, John McGinn, Sub on, Emiliano Buendía
🟨 | 79’ Booking, Diego Carlos, Bad Foul
💥 | 83’ Awful error by Pau Torres as his cross field pass is straight at Openda, in Villa’s first good fortune of the night the centre forward makes a right hash of it
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Youri Tielemans, Sub on, Ross Barkley
🔁 | 83’ Sub off, Lucas Digne, Sub on, Ian Maatsen
⚽ | 85’ Goal, 3-2, Ross Barkley
🗒️ | Maybe these things do even out, Barkley slips as shooting and a deflection takes the ball beyond the ‘keeper
🗒️ | That said it would be a travesty if Villa did not win this game
💥 | 87’ Martínez does what he does best and saves without having to think about it
❗| 88’ Chance! Morgan Rogers, wide from Ian Maatsen’s ball in
💥 | 89’ Martínez saves again, surely Leipzig couldn’t luck in again
🗒️ | 90’ Fourth official signals 4’ of injury time
🕒 | 90’+5 FT RB Leipzig 2-3 Aston Villa
🗒️ | A superb and totally deserved win for Villa on the road in the Champions League, Leipzig were thoroughly beaten and but for three silly errors Villa had a perfect night out in East Germany