"And while it may have come in Bigger Vase, a competition they probably resent having to play in after being robbed of a lucrative Bigger Cup place by some overzealous refereeing in their final match of last season, it at least gives Unai Emery a platform on which to build, even if his players have yet to produce a performance even remotely fit to lace the steel-toed boots of all those geriatric rockers who joined Ozzy Osbourne at Villa Park for his summer farewell."
"Up front, Ollie Watkins has yet to get off the mark this season and, in the moments before his penalty was saved by Bologna's Lukasz Skorupski, could scarcely have looked more gripped by fear if he was the teenage babysitter in a horror movie who has just been told that the phone call is coming from inside the house."
Aston Villa recorded their first win of the season seven games in, securing victory in the Bigger Vase. The team likely resent playing in the competition after losing a lucrative Bigger Cup place due to overzealous refereeing in last season's final. The win gives Unai Emery a platform to build from despite ongoing poor displays. The current side appears a diminished version of last season's team that pushed PSG in the Bigger Cup quarter-final. Morgan Rogers produced a comedy air-shot assist and has delivered increasingly peripheral performances, prompting fan calls for him to be dropped. Ollie Watkins remains without a goal and had a penalty saved by Lukasz Skorupski.
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