Surprise: Aston Villa fell in the visit to Go Ahead Eagles for the Europa League
They turned it around. Aston Villa He started winning and finally lost 2-1 on the visit to Go Ahead Eagles at the Adelaarshorst Stadium, in the rain, in the third date of the league phase of the UEFA Europa League. The match can be revive with the Disney+ Premium Plan (only for South America).
Go Ahead Eagles made history in the second European competition against Aston Villaafter a poor start. The Dutch team had a victory and a loss, while the English team had won their first two games in the Europa League.
At Aston Villa, directed by the Spanish Unai Emery and supported by Emiliano “Dibu” Martínez in the goal, they also played Ollie Watkins and Emiliano Buendiabut without having a good participation.
From the start, Aston Villa took a 1-0 leadsince Jadon Sancho overflowed from the left, he threw a cross, goalkeeper Jari De Busser took it out with his fists and just the Frenchman took it Evann Guessand to hit it from the right. Thus, after four minutes, in their first attack, the English team opened the scoring for the visitor.
And just three minutes later the lead almost increased, since De Busser wanted to go out playing to the left, kicked badly and Guessand took it, who served it to Watkins in the middle of the large area, but defined weak in front of the goalkeeper and he avoided the same against his people. Immediately, Buendía received the ball and scored it, but he just couldn’t seal the 2-0, in a barbaric start for the visitor.
Aston Villa continued to dominate and Sancho tried with a low shot half an hour into the game, when again De Busser drowned out another goal cry by keeping the ball. And, when it seemed to widen the difference, being superior in the procedure, The local team’s surprising 1-1 draw came at 42 minutes, when the Belgian Mathis Suray He took advantage of a free kick, from a prepared play, he kicked comfortably and the ball rose when it hit Pau Torres to go over Martínez, in the upper right corner.
In the second half the visit took center stage again, but without clarity when it came to stepping into the homeowner’s area. And at 16 minutes Aston Villa “threw” the offside, only the captain was leftthe Dutch Mats Deijlin the area, defined precisely before the departure of “Dibu” Martínez and turned the score around to make it 2-1. At 24, Morgan Rogers, who had just entered, almost tied it with a shot that hit the left post, entering from the right wing.
It was 34 minutes when Buendía missed the chance to tie: Aston Villa’s No. 10 kicked a penalty high and she let the possible equality slip away, after Matty Cash touched her in after a cross from the left and hit Dean James in the hand. Thus, Go Ahead Eagles were left with a heroic victory in their stadium against a historic rival from the Premier League.
The local team had just lost to PSG Eindhoven in the Eredivisie and defeated Panathinaikos in the European competition. Meanwhile, Aston Villa arrived after beating Tottenham Hotspur and Feyenoord, but could not beat another rival from the Netherlands, in the first official duel against each other.
