WHAT A START FOR AMADOU ONANA YESTERDAY ON HIS DEBUT FOR ASTON VILLA, SCORING AT JUST 4 MINS. INTO THE MATCH WITH A BRILLIANT ‘HIGH HEADER’, AND THEN CAME ONE OPPORTUNITY AFTER ANOTHER – FOR BOTH SIDES. (15 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET FOR ASTON VILLA, AND 14 SHOTS WITH 3 ON TARGET FOR WEST HAM.) BAILEY TOOK A SHOT VERY SHORTLY AFTER ONANA, WHICH JUST BOUNCED OFF THE POST, AND THEN BAILEY AGAIN, THIS TIME, SHAVING THE POST, AND THEN WITH LUCAS PAQUETA TAKING A PENALTY (AFTER A BIT OF COMPLICATED PLAY AND A ‘REFEREE CALL’), WHICH HE LITERALLY ‘ROLLED’ INTO THE BACK OF THE NET! EMERSON THEN FOLLOWED ON WITH THE EXCITEMENT, TAKING A GREAT SHOT WHICH JUST GOES WIDE, AND THEN, ANTONIO SHOOTS OVER THE TOP! AND THEN WITH DURAN’S GREAT EFFORT JUST GOING OVER THE TOP ALSO, UNTIL HIS NEXT SHOT FINALLY REACHED THE BACK OF THE NET AT 79 MINS, THIS MATCH WAS NOT SHORT OF ACTION!! (IN FACT, IT LOOKED LIKE IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANOTHER DURAN, DURAN THERE FOR A MINUTE!)
WEST HAM UNITED VS ASTON VILLA
THERE WAS ALSO SOME LAST-MINUTE BRILLIANCE WHEN KUDUS CROSSED THE BALL TO SOUCEK, WHO QUICKLY HEADED IT INTO THE GOAL, BUT IT BOUNCED OFF KONSA’S CHEST AND BACK ONTO SOUCEK’S WELL-PLACED BOOT, WHO HAS ANOTHER GO, BUT THIS TIME IT GOES OVER THE TOP, LEAVING AN EQUALISER JUST OUT-OF-REACH! THIS EXCITING GAME CULMINATED IN A 2 – 1 WIN TO ASTON VILLA!
