MADRID, 4 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Aston Villa has surpassed this Tuesday to the witches (1-3) in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League, in which two goals in the final stretch, one of them from the Spanish Marco Asensio, taking advantage of the mistakes of the Belgian team allowed those of Unai Emery to take a juicy advantage for the return in Birmingham.
Just three minutes after the initial beep at the Jan Breydel stadium, the ‘villains’ took advantage of the passivity of the Belgian defense to put ahead in a distant foul; In the center to the area, Tyrone Mings won the jump and left the ball so that Jamaican Leon Bailey only had to push him to the bottom of the meshes.
Ai Emery’s were able to expand the rent shortly after, in a backlash in which Marcus Rashford was planted alone before a Simon Mignolet who avoided the goal with his feet, but it was Nicky Hayen’s painting the one he hit. In the 12th minute, Maxim de Cuyper, arriving from the back and first, the ball spliced to put it away from the reach of the ‘DERT’ Martínez.
The Argentine goalkeeper still had to save his own by stopping a right from Chemsdine Talbi inside the area at half an hour, and at the beginning of the first part he also stopped another shot from the front of Raphael Onyedika. In 67, Marco Asensio tried fortune with a shot that left high, responded soon with two good occasions of Hans Vanaken and Christos Tzolis.
With a short time to be consumed, the English team took again after Brandon Mechele diverted the ball towards its own goal in a center for Ollie Watkins (min.82), and already in the 88 Marco Asensio, after a penalty over Tzolis, he was in charge of tie the victory from the eleven meters with his fifth goal as ‘Villain’.