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Boubacar Kamara’s brilliant goal was enough to earn Aston Villa His seventh win in eight Premier League Bragging rights over sports and local rivals wolves,
The Frenchman scored a clever second-half strike to seal a 1-0 win as Villa moved up to third in the table ahead of Chelsea’s clash with Arsenal on Sunday.
It was a goal worthy of the three points as Villa continued to show that they are going to compete at the top of the table again.
This looked doubtful after a disappointing start to the campaign due to the dreadful summer transfer window, where they failed to win any of their opening five games and only scored once.
But the following eight games have shown that Villa are moving in the right direction again under Unai Emery.
For Wolves, the door to the Championship trap is getting closer with each passing week as they languish at the bottom of the table, nine points away from safety.
New boss Rob Edwards might have been celebrating the first point in charge had he not made a few big saves in the first half emiliano martinezWhich proved decisive.
Villa were keen to get on the front foot and within three minutes they almost took the lead as Wolves goalkeeper Sam Johnstone’s misplaced punch bounced off Kamara’s shoulder and onto the crossbar.
But Wolves settled down and thought they had taken the lead in the 16th minute.
Jackson Chachachoua was freed on the right and pulled the ball back jorgen strand larsenWho found the corner with a curled finish from 12 yards.
However, John Arias stood in front of Martínez and the goal was ruled out.
It is a fierce rivalry and with the challenges looming, Wolves are showing they have not given up the fight yet.
And it was the visitors who came closest to going in front again, with only Martínez making two saves to keep his side level.
He produced a smart stop to deny Strand Larsson after another clever pass down the Wolves right, but his second save was even better.
From the resulting corner, he hit Yerson Mosquera’s powerful header onto the underside of the crossbar.
Villa needed an equally heroic tackle from Pau Torres to prevent Strand Larsson from tapping in Jean-Ricner Bellegarde’s invited cross shortly after the restart.
The hosts had a tough afternoon and needed something special to get going midway through the second half.
John McGinn found a hole on the right and sent the ball back to Kamara and the Frenchman did the rest, driving effortlessly into the top corner with a left foot from 20 yards.
Villa suddenly seemed invigorated and Donyal Malen could have made it 2–0 shortly afterwards, but Johnstone was denied by a first-time walk-out cross.
Kamara’s moment of magic proved enough, with Martínez denying Joao Gomes at the death as Emery’s men moved ahead and Wolves remain winless after 13 games.