Tyrone Mings’ calamitous mistake proved expensive as Aston Villa misplaced 1-0 to Membership Brugge within the Champions League.
Villa had gained their opening three video games within the competitors, however their unbeaten run got here to a shuddering halt in Belgium on Wednesday.
Mings was at fault as he conceded a weird penalty early within the second half.
On his first Champions League look, Mings inexplicably picked the ball when it was handed his approach by Emiliano Martinez, believing it was not in play.
The referee pointed to the penalty spot, with the spot-kick confirmed by VAR, and Hans Vanaken transformed from 12 yards.
Unai Emery’s facet didn’t create a lot of notice from then on, and completed with simply 0.4 anticipated targets (xG) from what was a disappointing attacking show.
Brugge at the moment are on six factors, three behind Villa.
win, that is Bruges, that is fort Jan Breydel! pic.twitter.com/dEI7vrhhVQ
— Membership Brugge KV (@ClubBrugge) November 6, 2024
Knowledge Debrief: Brugge lastly declare an English scalp
This was Brugge’s first win over an English group in Europe since they beat Chelsea within the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1995, ending a run of 14 matches with no victory in opposition to English groups.
Villa, in the meantime, didn’t develop into simply the fourth group to win their first 4 Champions League matches, after Milan (1993), Paris Saint-Germain (1994) and Juventus (1995).
