Aston Villa 1 Ipswich 1 - Matt Maher analysis - video Dailymotion

Aston Villa 1 Ipswich 1 - Matt Maher analysis

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00:00Good evening from Villa Park where it finished. Villa won, Ipswich won.

00:04Frustrating day all round for Unai Emery. Another frustrating day against

00:09Ipswich. 2-2 draw at Portman Road back in September was among the most

00:16annoying results of the first half of the season and this was again a day when

00:20Villa just, well, two points dropped. Played the majority of the game against ten

00:24men. Axel Tuanzebe, three-time Villa loanee and of course a hero of the 2019

00:30promotion winning side when he was on loan from Manchester United. Sent off

00:34five minutes before half-time for a second bookable offence. There's a

00:39question mark over whether the first booking should have been a booking. Little

00:42doubt about the second one. But that seemed to set Villa up perfectly.

00:45They'd been frustrated by Ipswich at that point. They'd been very much in the

00:48game. 0-0 and you really expected Villa, having, you know, having pushed on

00:54and nearly opened the scoring before half-time, to really take the game by the

00:59scruff of the neck in the second half. Instead it was Ipswich that went in front

01:02through Liam De Lappe. 11 minutes into the second period and though Villa fought

01:07back. Equalised to Ollie Watkins after Marcus Rashford's free-kick hit the bar.

01:12They couldn't find a winner. Couldn't find a way past Alex Palmer, the former West

01:17Bromwich Albion goalkeeper, on debut, or Premier League debut rather, for Ipswich,

01:21who had an outstanding game. Pulled off a string of saves, twice denied Morgan

01:25Rodgers, twice denied Marco Asensio and ended up in a 1-1 draw. So Villa

01:31missed the chance to make up ground on the top five. Missed a chance to

01:36really spring into big games against Liverpool and Chelsea over the

01:41next week. Four games without a win in the Premier League and the kind of

01:45result they just can't really afford if they are to finish in the top five, which

01:50will likely end up placing next season's Champions League. Not the kind of

01:54afternoon they expected when they obviously bought in Daniel Marlon, Marco

01:57Asensio and Marcus Rashford in the January transfer window.

02:03You would be expected to score more than one goal against ten men.