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Matt Maher on Aston Villa's third Champions League victory
Express & Star
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23/10/2024
Matt Maher gives his reaction to Aston Villa's latest Champions League victory.
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00:00
Good evening from Villa Park. Another fantastic night for Unai Emery's team in the Champions League.
00:08
He finished Villa 2, Bologna 0 and Villa for 24 hours at least are top of the Champions League.
00:14
That huge 36 team table in Europe's elite competition.
00:18
They are looking down on the likes of Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Juventus.
00:25
Villa are the only team to have recorded three wins from three games so far.
00:30
They've scored six goals. They've conceded none.
00:33
While this game against Bologna didn't have quite the same emotion as their first game in the competition against young boys
00:38
or of course that night against Bayern Munich earlier this month.
00:42
In terms of a team that look like they're just at home now at this level, this was really, really impressive.
00:49
2-0 win and you never really felt that Villa got out of second or third gear.
00:53
Yep, it took them a while to score. It was 55 minutes before John McGinn broke the deadlock.
00:59
His free kick evading everybody in the box and ended up in the bottom corner.
01:03
And then John Duran of course, he started today in place of Oli Watkins and he scored.
01:08
Of course, he usually does. Seventh goal of the season.
01:11
Villa could have been in front before they broke the deadlock.
01:14
Morgan Rodgers denied in the first half by the goalkeeper who also denied.
01:18
McGinn and Villa played well in patches and around the box but just couldn't quite find the finishing touch.
01:24
And once they'd gone ahead, they coasted really.
01:27
They cruised it through the last 25 minutes of the game.
01:29
They could have perhaps scored a couple more.
01:31
But against a good Bologna team who played really well at Liverpool
01:34
and perhaps unlucky not to get something at Liverpool, this was a really kind of comfortable win.
01:38
And the question now, the nine points from three matches,
01:41
is not whether Villa are going to make it through to the knockout stages of the competition.
01:45
It's whether they can finish in the top eight and go straight through to the last 16.
01:49
They've got five games to go.
01:51
They probably need to win perhaps three out of five to guarantee a top eight finish
01:55
but they are definitely now in that hunt.
01:58
And this season, the first two months, it's looking like another really strong season for Villa
02:03
and it really is a question of how far can they go.
02:07
John McGinn said after the game he feels they're building something amazing
02:11
and you can't really argue.
02:13
It feels something special is bubbling here.
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