For now, the Premier League teams are still favored and taken into account in the UCL stage, but Aston Villa's victory over Bayern was quite surprising in my opinion because no one expected that Aston Villa would be able to win the match and for Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal I think they won the match fairly because since before the PL team was very favored, even for this season Manchester City is still the top favorite to win the Champion League.
it was a really commendable one from Aston Villa in that game, even when it felt like they were lucky, it still turned out they are winners and have been able to get the complete points in that game unlike before when they will be struggling at some point to win Bayern Munich in a champions league game where they aren't experienced enough, even in the game it was obvious they were not playing really well but were just defensive and got lucky at some point with which they were able to secure the victory. all premier league teams are doing well.
Aston villa has really developed very quickly after they have been coached by Unai Emery so far, previously we knew that they always failed to penetrate the Champions League zone but last season they surprised us because they were able to compete with Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool, this season they started the season quite well despite having to lose from Arsenal in the first match of the Premier League, but so far they has risen and been able to be quite consistent in every game.
The victory over Munich in the UCL has shown how their mentality is very extraordinary at the moment and I think Aston Villa are one of the teams that have a great chance of qualifying for the last 16, the form and consistency they have has been tested at the moment, so I think we can't say if yesterday victory was luck, because throughout the game we could see how effective and resilient are they in facing Munich.
