MARCUS RASHFORD AND MARCO ASENSIO ARE BECOMING QUITE THE DOUBLE-ACT NOW, WITH RASHFORD’S SUPERB ASSIST TO ASENSIO AT 68 MINS. RESULTING IN A STUPENDOUS GOAL! ASTON VILLA HAD 25 SHOTS, WITH 10 ON TARGET. (INDEED, CARDIFF’S GOALKEEPER ETHAN HORVATH HAD SAVED 7 ASTON VILLA GOALS BY THE TIME THE RASHFORD/ASENSIO GOAL HIT-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET.) ASENSIO SCORED ANOTHER CRACKER AT 80 MINS. WHICH HAD THE STADIUM IN RAPTURES. AND ALTHOUGH CARDIFF CITY HAD FRUSTRATED VILLA THROUGHOUT THE MATCH WITH THEIR ENERGETIC PLAY AND GREAT DEFENDING, (ALSO HAVING 4 SHOTS, WITH 1 ON TARGET) THEY DID NOT MANAGE TO REACH-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, MEANING THAT THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 0 WIN TO ASTON VILLA, WHO NOW MOVE INTO THE QUARTER-FINALS!
ASTON VILLA BOSS UNAI EMERY SPEAKS AFTER THE MATCH
“WE RESPECTED THE OPPONENT AND WE TRIED TO DOMINATE. WE HAD CHANCES BUT WERE NOT CLINICAL. AFTER WE SCORED THE FIRST GOAL WE WERE THINKING OUR WORK WAS GOING WELL. WE ARE THINKING FOR THE NEXT MATCH. OF COURSE, WE ARE HAPPY BUT WE KNOW THE DIFFICULTIES WE FACE. IT IS A WAY FOR A TROPHY.” HE ALSO COMMENTED ON RASHFORD AND ASENSIO’S PERFORMANCES SAY “THEY ARE ADAPTING FANTASTICALLY, WE WILL NEED THEM IN THE NEXT MATCHES AND CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.” PLUS, ALSO “IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE TEAM AND THE PLAYERS INDIVIDUALLY TO GET TO THEIR TARGETS.”
