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A coat was launched into the sky over Villa Park. unai emery‘s coat, to be exact. His team is also taking flight. Emery is taking Aston Villa To stratospheric heights and it felt right morgan rogers The goal was achieved which prompted the Spaniard to lift up his padded jacket. “My adrenaline rush,” said Emery, whose celebrations seemed more angry than happy but there is plenty to enjoy in the villa.
A seventh consecutive league win, their best performance in 36 years, came courtesy of the increasingly remarkable Rodgers. The title challenge that no one saw coming is gaining momentum. “We can feel happy after a bad start,” Emery said. In the bottom three on the autumnal equinox, Villa finishes in the top three on the shortest day of the year.
Rogers’ own transformation within three months has also been astonishing. After being criticized by a section of the Villa support against Bologna in September, he now looks like a Premier League in-form player. Another surprise goal for the second double in a row. Rogers is in great form. “Morgan Rodgers played great,” Emery said. “Morgan stepped up his performance today and last week. He’s a hero, a fighter and a very nice guy.”
Manchester UnitedMeanwhile, they are flailing and flailing. The days when they could have gone fifth, instead of them ending with them being beaten, scandalized, patched up and looking bad An obviously makeshift midfield pair. Of Lisandro Martínez and newcomer Jack Fletcher. If it’s an indictment of United that Villa are performing better than them, that’s another matter Reuben Amorim After spending £230 million in the summer, Emery had an improved side and a stronger bench.
Amorim’s typically unusual team showed some defensive resolve in the first half and made a spirited effort to grab the second equaliser. However, Villa have more cohesion, more pace and a knack for winning. This is 16 wins in their last 18 matches. The last five matches have all come by one-goal margins. This team can maintain patience. They can win big moments.
Certainly Rogers can. At the insistence of Amadou Onana, he ended his afternoon by punching the air in front of the Holte End, once again a crowd favourite. “Sometimes it’s your day, sometimes it’s not,” he shrugged. “Fortunately that’s happened recently.”
He seems confident enough to try almost anything. He almost scored with a backheel flick in the eighth minute. When he attacked he was brilliant. He took one touch to hook John McGinn’s pass out of the air, another to prevent the ball coming out and then, after a winding run, a curling finish that caught Sane Lammens motionless. “You want everyone to go to the top corner like this,” Rogers said. Both of his goals were from a similar angle, the second coming from close range after getting onto Ayden Haven’s clearance.
What made it all the more strange was that Rodgers had almost waited until Christmas to score at Villa Park this season; All five of his previous goals had come on the road. Then he ousted United. “Rogers can go either way; it’s really hard to defend a player like that against one,” lamented Amorim.
United almost had their answer to Rodgers. One explanation is that it became a duel between the Englishman and Matheus Cunha. It took 13 attempts between two players happy with the shot. Brazil equalized once and should have done so again.
After Matty Cash was tackled by Patrick Dorgu, the summer signing fired a shot. After scoring just one goal for United, he now has two goals in a week. Cunha should have eaten at two in the afternoon. He headed wide in vain from six yards, following an unusually accurate cross by the unusually effective Dorgu. If nothing else, Cunha was determined; He came close in the third minute and was later denied by Amy Martínez.
But, as United began life without Amad Diallo and Brian Mbuemo, they had no other threat. Benjamin Cesco was particularly disappointed. There was a lack of conviction when his effort was blocked by goalkeeper Martínez, who was hoping to join United on deadline day and may now be relieved that they chose to buy Lammens.
“I think we were the better team,” Amorim insisted. “We deserved much more than this.” Some individuals emerged with credit. United’s starting defender Heaven played well. Dorgu also did the same.
But Amorim’s plans were hampered by rarity bruno fernandes The injury, which meant the captain did not return for the second half and the midfield was already without the banned Casemiro. kobi manoo sidelined Adopted a different look with defender Martínez and rookie Fletcher. “It’s really strange,” said Amorim, who was not used to seeing his compatriot sidelined. “It’s going to be a while.” And the greatest loss that day may not have been the defeat, but the loss of the man who had been the captain, the constant and the catalyst.