Mario Lemina was sent off for picking up a second yellow card during 12 minutes of stoppage time
Pau Torres scores Aston Villa's equaliser during the Premier League game against Aston Villa at Molineux. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty ImagesPerhaps the biggest surprise in this stop-start and spiky affair between keen rivals was that it took until the 94th minute for someone to see red.
The sight of Unai Emery urging calm to anyone who would listen as the fourth official, Paul Tierney, indicated four additional first-half minutes felt a touch rich given he had spent almost the entire previous 45 haring around his technical area in fury, going haywire at the most innocuous errors. He was apoplectic when Douglas Luiz sent a careless pass astray and seemed close to combusting when John McGinn, his captain, leathered a shot harmlessly wide.
Suddenly Emery was the one who appeared a picture of serenity. Maybe Emery’s irritation stemmed from the reality that Villa’s best players had been totally nullified by the same three-man defence that shepherded Erling Haaland out of the game when Wolves beat Manchester City a week earlier. Ollie Watkins, who has just signed a new five-year contract, had to feed off scraps and Moussa Diaby, Villa’s record signing, was subdued.
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