Hanging by a second string thread... and then... enter Jama
- James
- 2 days ago
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🟩 29 Jan 2026 Villa 3-2 RB Salzburg, Villa Park
Scorer(s): Morgan Rogers | 64’ | Tyrone Mings | 76’ | Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba | 87’ |
Assist(s): Emiliano Buendía | 64’ | Matty Cash | 76’ | Kadan Young | 87’ |
Full Match Report: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/game/5815
`Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/jamaldeen-jimoh-aloba
Line Up
Scorer(s)
Scorer(s): Morgan Rogers | 64’ | Tyrone Mings | 76’ | Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba | 87’ |Assist(s): Emiliano Buendía | 64’ | Matty Cash | 76’ | Kadan Young | 87’ |
Starting XI
GK Emiliano Martínez 🇦🇷
LB Lucas Digne 🇫🇷
CB Victor Lindelöf 🇸🇪
CB Tyrone Mings 🏴 ⚽
DM Lamare Bogarde 🇳🇱
DM Amadou Onana 🇧🇪 🔁
M George Hemmings 🏴 🔁
AM Emiliano Buendía 🇦🇷 🔥 🔁
AM Harvey Elliott 🏴
LW Jadon Sancho 🏴 🔁
CF Ollie Watkins 🏴 🚑 🔁
Substitutes
🔁 AM Morgan Rogers 🏴 ⚽ for CF Ollie Watkins 🏴 35’
🔁 RB Matty Cash 🇵🇱 🔥 for M George Hemmings 🏴 46’
🔁 CM Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba 🏴 ⚽ for AM Emiliano Buendía 🇦🇷 66’
🔁 CB Ezri Konsa 🏴 for DM Amadou Onana 🇧🇪 66’
🔁 LW Kadan Young 🏴 🔥 for LW Jadon Sancho 🏴 78’
Unused Substitutes
GK Marco Bizot 🇳🇱
GK James Wright 🏴
CB Pau Torres 🇪🇸
LB Ian Maatsen 🇳🇱
First Half Timeline
🥅 33’ Goal, 0-1, (RB Salzburg), Karim Konaté
[🟨] 35’ Booking, (RB Salzburg), Joane Gadou
🔁 35’ Sub off, Ollie Watkins (injury), Sub on, Morgan Rogers
🕒 45’+3 HT Aston Villa 0-1 RB Salzburg
Half-Time Comment
A truly terrible mistake from Tyrone Mings, another injury and the worst half of football in months is thankfully over.
Second Half Timeline
🔁 46’ Sub off, George Hemmings, Sub on, Matty Cash
🥅 49’ Goal, 0-2, (RB Salzburg), Moussa Yeo
⚽ 64’ Goal!, 1-2, Morgan Rogers, Assist by Emiliano Buendía
🔁 66’ Sub off, Emiliano Buendía, Sub on, Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba
🔁 66’ Sub off, Amadou Onana, Sub on, Ezri Konsa
⚽ 76’ Goal!, 2-2, Tyrone Mings, Assist by Matty Cash
🔁 78’ Sub off, Jadon Sancho, Sub on, Kadan Young
⚽ 87’ Goal! 3-2, Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba, Assist by Kadan Young
🕒 90’+5 HT Aston Villa 3-2 RB Salzburg
Full-Time Comment
A comeback of all comebacks, since the last one, Rogers inspires, Mings amends and Jamaldeen and Kadan bring our youth talent to the attention of the masses
League Table
Officials Game Rating
Referee: Rohit Saggi 🇳🇴 Vindafjord, 2026- Game Rating: 7/10
VAR: Robert Schröder 🇩🇪 Hannover, 2026-
Game Rating: 7/10
Unbelievable, a set of officials you barely noticed. This would catch on if they gave it a chance, I reckon.
The Boss
Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | Hondarribia, 2022-
2022- 🕒 173 | 🟩 | 98 🟨 | 30 🟥 45 | 1.87
Unai Emery 🇪🇸 Highest Win percentage achieved across all competitions: 56.65%
Closest Rival: 1886-26 George Ramsay 🏴 Management Committee 49.55%
1982-84 Tony Barton 🏴 Highest Home Win percentage achieved across all competitions: 70.59%
Closest Rival: Unai Emery 🇪🇸 67.44%
Unai Emery 🇪🇸 Highest Away Win percentage achieved across all competitions: 46.51%
Closest Rival: 2006-10 Martin O'Neill 🇬🇧 40.63%
Unai Emery 🇪🇸 Highest Premier League Win percentage achieved 54.84%
Closes Rival: 1998-02 John Gregory 🏴 41.22%
Unai Emery 🇪🇸 Highest League Win percentage achieved 54.84%
Closest Rival: 1886-26 George Ramsay 🏴 Management Committee 48.14%
Unai Emery 🇪🇸 Highest Top Flight League Win percentage achieved 54.84%
Closest Rival: 1886-26 George Ramsay 🏴 Management Committee 48.14%
1886-26 George Ramsay 🏴 Management Committee Highest FA Cup Win percentage achieved, leading the club 5 or more times in the competition, 62.50%
Closest Rival: Unai Emery 🇪🇸 60.00%
Unai Emery 🇪🇸 Highest European Win percentage achieved, leading the club 5 or more times in European competition 66.77%
Closest Rival: 1974-82 Ron Saunders | 🏴 | 50.00%
Unai Emery 🇪🇸 Highest European Cup / Champions League Win percentage achieved, leading the club 5 or more times in the competition, 66.67%
Closest Rival: 1982-84 Tony Barton 🏴 54.55%
Unai Emery 🇪🇸 Lowest Loss percentage suffered across all competitions 26.01%
Closest Rival: 2006-10 Martin O'Neill 🇬🇧 26.32%
1958-64 Joe Mercer 🏴 Highest Post War Average Goals per Game Scored across all competitions 1.73
Closest Rival: Unai Emery 🇪🇸 1.72
On This Day
Villa finished on 21 points and took second place in the Europa League league phase behind Lyon on goal difference, finishing with a record of P8 W7 L1
Villa will face one of PAOK, Lille, Crvena Zvezda or Celta Vigo in the Round of 16.
Emiliano Martínez 🇦🇷 makes his 235th appearance for Villa.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/emiliano-mart%C3%ADnez
James Wright 🏴 makes his 15th unused substitute appearance for Villa without playing for the first team.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/james-wright
Tyrone Mings 🏴 scores his ninth goal for the club, his first in European competition and his first since April 2023.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/tyrone-mings
Matty Cash 🇵🇱 equals Andy Gray’s 🏴 appearances for Viila, 210.
Matty Cash 🇵🇱 makes his 25th substitute appearance for Villa.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/matty-cash
Lucas Digne 🇫🇷 records his 75th win under Unai Emery 🇪🇸
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/lucas-digne
Emiliano Buendía 🇦🇷 equals Ahmed Elmohamady’s 🇪🇬 appearances for Villa, 128
Emiliano Buendía 🇦🇷 contributes his 15th assist for Villa.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/emiliano-buend%C3%ADa
Amadou Onana 🇧🇪 makes his 40th start in 55 appearances for Villa.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/amadou-onana
George Hemmings 🏴 makes his first start for Villa.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/george-hemmings
Harvey Elliott 🏴 is named in the starting line-up for the first time since October in the 2-0 Europa League victory over Feyenoord.
Harvey Elliott 🏴 remains unbeaten in his six appearances for Villa, drawing three and winning three.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/harvey-elliott
Morgan Rogers 🏴 equals Neil Taylor’s 🏴 appearances for Villa, 103
Morgan Rogers 🏴 records his 60th win for Villa.
Morgan Rogers 🏴 makes his 25th European appearance.
Morgan Rogers 🏴 scores his 5th goal in Europe.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/morgan-rogers
Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba 🏴 makes his first appearance in European competition.
Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba 🏴 scores his first goal for Villa on his sixth appearance - all as a substitute.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/jamaldeen-jimoh-aloba
Jadon Sancho 🏴 makes his 10th start for Villa in 21 appearances.
Jadon Sancho 🏴 secures his 15th win in 21 games.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/jadon-sancho
Kadan Young 🏴 makes his first appearance in European competition.
Kadan Young 🏴 makes his first appearance since October 2024.
Kadan Young 🏴 makes his second assist in three appearances and his first in Europe.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/kadan-young
Ollie Watkins 🏴 makes his 225th start for Villa.
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/ollie-watkins
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What they said
"Good evening. Now we are in the top eight and we want to finish first. And of course to keep going with our mentality here at home with our support and we must play to transmit our energy.
"We have made some changes but overall we are playing with players who are used to playing in different competitions."
Unai Emery, pre-match
"It's a really nice moment for him; he works hard in training and gives his all. He is probably a bit shy and nervous more than I'd like, but he shows his quality in training.
"We know he's got the ability; it's about applying himself. I knew he was locked in and engaged, and that's what we want from him.
"Sometimes he can get a bit disengaged - that's where you can probably lose it. As a young player, I was exactly the same; when you get older, you are focused more.
"He was focused the moment he came on, and it was a really nice moment for him.
"I've taken a shine to him; he's a really nice kid, and we like when we train with him and want him to do well."
Morgan Rogers on match-winner Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba
“It’s a lovely moment for Jama.
“Obviously, we see the hard work he puts in day in, day out.
“The manager is very hard on him, as are the rest of us, because we know his potential.
“But it’s a lovely moment for him.”
Tyrone Mings on Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba
"I'm very happy and of course today was a match played with some potential players we have who are young in the academy, developing with them.
"And today they had an opportunity to play, George [Hemmings], then Jamal [Jimoh-Aloba] and Kadan [Young]. Of course, Jamal scored a goal, which was really fantastic.
"We were expecting a difficult match because they needed to win. They are brave playing forward. They were trying to get into individual duels with us.
"In Europe, with the experiences we have, we know how difficult each match is. Today, playing 90 minutes, creating this energy with our supporters is something we can feel, and as a competition where we can be protagonists and get something.
"It is necessary to give them chances, and those three players play, George and then Jamal and Kadan, I think it's a good opportunity for them. They got experiences and played how we needed in the plan we have with them.
"To get a victory, to play with some players like them and create in this competition something with our supporters' feelings for it... I think it is very important.
"It's very important to have chances to play the young players, the opportunity for them to show their progress. I think they did a very good job
"We have a plan with them. We need to protect them when they are playing. We need as well to get a plan in their development as a player, every day training with us and then in official matches like today. It was fantastic how we did everything."
Unai Emery, post-match.
“One side is this competition, and we want to try to get through it our way, being protagonists and of course getting a way for a trophy, getting a way for play and be getting emotion with our supporters.
“And we got it, because today we won, and as well we created some emotions with our supporters, with the energy after we were losing 2-0 to react.
“How we came back, the result I thought it was really fantastic, sharing everything with our supporters and transmitting them our energy, and they were transmitting us as well their feelings.
“This is the way we want to build here, in this competition, in Villa Park, with our supporters, trying to get so, so motivated for this competition, and today was a fantastic day for it.”
Unai Emery, post-match.
The Last Word
"It's a proud moment for me on my European debut. It's just really nice to make my family proud and stuff because of all the hard work. I've had a lot of lows this season and a lot of highs, but this is the top."
Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba
Full Player Profile: https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/jamaldeen-jimoh-aloba
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