Aston Villa secured a comfortable victory in their UEFA Champions League first round fixture against Young Boys at the Wankdorf Stadium. Youri Tielemans and Amadou Onana struck for Villa, while Jacob Ramsey added another goal in a match filled with both brilliance and comical moments.
Amadou Onana scores Aston Villa 's third goal during their Uefa Champions League first round fixture against Young Boys at the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern. Photograph: Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Imagesanthem over the speakers and their mood was similarly jubilant after watching their team record a comprehensive victory in their first assignment.
On the eve of the game, Tielemans said he felt the buzz among Villa supporters, so he was well versed on how his goal would have been received from Berne to Birmingham and beyond. Lucas Digne rolled a corner to John McGinn, whose curling cross picked out an isolated Tielemans. The midfielder brought the ball under his spell before dispatching a low shot into the corner. Villa’s set-piece coach, Austin MacPhee, roared with delight on the edge of the Villa technical area.
Tielemans’s strike gave Villa a leg-up and from there they dominated. Rogers freed Ollie Watkins but the Villa striker, with yellow shirts breathing down his neck, screwed a scruffy shot wide. Then Cheikh Niasse manhandled a rampaging Onana, earning a booking in the process. Watkins wheeled away in celebration under the impression he had made it 3-0 on 43 minutes but his goal was disallowed for a bizarre handball decision. It was almost as if the video assistant referee, Willy Delajod, had sympathy for Young Boys, who flipped from giving Villa a rough ride to a meek surrender in double-quick time. Watkins’s initial effort on the spin was blocked by the full-back Zachary Athekame but his second flew high into the net, supposedly with a helping hand.
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