This was a different Aston Villa to the one we have seen and perhaps many people wanted to see, but that didn’t matter.
Villa did not come out to play exciting football, and they were not attack minded like they usually are, but Unai Emery had a game plan and it worked out.
They did not try to take risks or please people, they tried to get a result.
It worked, partly because Bayern were not ruthless enough, and also because they have a world-class keeper in Emi Martinez when they were opened up… and also because they could bring someone like Jhon Duran off the bench to win them the game.
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