Aston Villa at the moment are winless of their final 4 video games in all competitions after a disappointing 1-0 defeat to Membership Brugge on Tuesday evening.
This was Villa’s first loss within the Champions League this season, and it will likely be a consequence that stings for Unai Emery‘s males, owing to the comical nature of Brugge’s winner.
Tyrone Mings was entrance and centre of the Belgian facet’s laughable objective within the contest, with the skilled 31-year-old lackadasically scooping the ball up after an Emiliano Martinez goal-kick, just for the referee to level to the penalty spot.
Mings’ efficiency in numbers
It was an enormous lapse in focus from the Villa quantity 5, who would have simply been glad to be again out on the pitch getting extra minutes after a critical harm layoff, away from the incident at hand.
Nonetheless, Mings’ second of insanity finally price his facet the sport, together with his complete show happening as one to neglect.
Away from this freak incident, Mings struggled throughout the 66 minutes he was current on the Brugge turf, with solely one duel being gained from 5 tried protruding as a sorry statistic from his hour or so on the pitch.
Pau Torres will hope he’s reinstated into Emery’s essential XI for the following recreation Villa play away at Liverpool this coming weekend, because the West Midlands facet intention to place this dire 1-0 defeat behind them as shortly as attainable.
While Mings’ efficiency stole the entire headlines for the entire unsuitable causes, he wasn’t the one notable underperformer on the evening, as Morgan Rogers additionally did not impress out in Belgium.
Rogers’ efficiency in numbers
Rogers was a brilliant spark for Villa the match earlier than this sobering Champions League loss, with the ex-Manchester Metropolis teen bagging his facet’s solely objective of the sport in a demoralising 4-1 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur in Premier League motion.
The 22-year-old midfielder could not increase any transient smiles in the same method away in Brugge, nonetheless, as Rogers did not ever get going for his facet on their European travels, with a colorless 1-0 loss the undesirable remaining end result.
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Rogers’ efficiency in numbers |
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Stat |
Rogers |
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Minutes performed |
66 |
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Targets scored |
0 |
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Assists |
0 |
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Touches |
29 |
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Correct passes |
15/19 (79%) |
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Pictures on the right track |
0 |
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Profitable dribbles |
1/3 |
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Whole duels gained |
1/4 |
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Stats by Sofascore |
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Wanting on the desk above, Rogers was nowhere close to his greatest in opposition to Nicky Hayen’s hosts, with solely 29 touches mustered up amongst different worrying numbers.
Even Martinez in-between the sticks managed to register extra touches at a hefty 46, as Rogers merely let the sport move him by far too usually.
Alongside a meagre 26 touches, the out-of-sorts Villa quantity 27 additionally did not notch up a single on-target effort at Simon Mignolet’s objective, in addition to solely managing one profitable dribble and one profitable duel, as Brugge celebrated their large win come full-time while Rogers and Co trudged off the pitch downbeat.
Aim journalist Harry Sherlock would give the 22-year-old a low 4/10 match ranking ater the sport consequently, labelling his show as ‘bitterly disappointing’ when contrasted together with his normally electrical shows for Emery’s males.
Villa are deep right into a sticky patch of type now after final evening’s defeat, with Emery wanting a serious response when his Villans facet journey to Liverpool subsequent, in what may find yourself being one other defeat for his despondent facet.
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