Newcastle humble Villa in a weekend to forget for Unai Emery
I have been trying to think about how I write about what we witnessed on Saturday evening in the opening Premier League game of the season at St James Park. All of a sudden, I am sitting here watching Monday night football and it has finally hit me what really hurt during that 5-1 embarrassing defeat.
The defeat wasn’t great and the collapse in the second half wasn’t pretty but credit where it’s due, Newcastle deserved it and quite possibly more.
But what really hurt was the injury to Tyrone Mings. The injury of our former captain will affect Villa far more than the defeat, we have 37 games to come after all.
Mings has been a crucial part of this Aston Villa side since he initially joined us on loan in January 2019. The club today announced our biggest fears, our star defender has a significant knee injury and scans have revealed he will require surgery ahead of a lengthy rehabilitation process. This came just days after Villa revealed that Emi Buendia will miss most, if not all of the Premier League campaign with an ACL injury.
I can only wish both lads the very best in their recoveries and not they I need to say, but know that the Villa faithful will be with them all through their recoveries.
Newcastle United 5-1 Aston Villa
Let’s be honest, not even the most positive of Geordie or the most negative Aston Villa fan would have predicted the result we witnessed at St James Park.
As good as the home side was, the visitors were equally as poor, more so...
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