I wrote yesterday that Villa is not an easy opponent for Man City and now Villa are in third place in the standings... I thought that City would score, but Villa won with a minimum of one goal... It was a good match... Today it will be interesting to watch the game Spurs vs Hammers...
But indeed the 3-point result for Aston Villa in this match made another surprise because I understood when they were not an easy opponent but my expectations were only for a draw or victory for Manchester City but in this match it was exactly the opposite.
This is a series of unpleasant results for Manchester City because 4 matches done ended with 1 loss and 3 draws really made them lose a lot of points at the moment and immediately thrown to 4th place.
Now Pep really has to be able to get up at this time because if in the end they receive results like this mid-season for Manchester City will obviously be unpleasant to do.
Aston Villa just crushed Manchester City in this match. Aston Villa had 22 shots on goal, compared to 2 for Manchester City and were lucky that Aston Villa scored only one goal, the one that was canceled is not considered, because before the goal the ball really went over the line and canceled it correctly. This is a failure of Manchester City without reservations, they had no chance and considering the previous matches, Guardiola has something to think about. There was no such competition in the EPL last season. Liverpool were caught in a generational change and were unstable, Arsenal lacked character, Chesley were out of contention and Aston Villa were mid-table. Now Emery has knocked Manchester City out of 4th place and are clearly a medal contender this season.
Emery is probably the best acquisition of Aston Villa in recent years.