Aston Villa ran out 1-0 winners over Southampton at Villa Park on Friday night due to a goal from Jacob Ramsey.
The younger midfielder scored the goal in the forty first minute of what’s going to go down as the worst game of soccer of the season.
The opening half an hour of the game at Villa Park was, in reality, an absolute abomination. It was in all probability the worst half-hour of soccer that will probably be performed in the world all through the 2022/23 – and that is an understatement.
Neither staff appeared remotely able to doing something in the last third, with Leon Bailey in explicit losing various alternatives to create one thing for his aspect.
Thankfully for everybody watching, enterprise picked up for a bit in the thirty third minute when Philippe Coutinho turned on the model to swivel previous James Ward-Prowse earlier than firing a long-range effort simply over the crossbar.
Coutinho then compelled Gavin Bazunu into his first little bit of motion of the night in the fortieth minute, seeing a strike from the left of the penalty circled the submit by the Republic of Ireland worldwide.
From the ensuing nook, Bazunu was compelled into one other save, stopping an Ollie Watkins header from crossing the line. Unfortunately for the goalkeeper nevertheless, Jacob Ramsey was first to react to the rebound, volleying in off the crossbar to make it 1-0 to the house aspect.
On the stroke of half-time it was so almost 2-0. Bailey, after an terrible efficiency in the opening half an hour, virtually redeemed himself with a superb strike throughout goal from the proper of the penalty space – a strike which deflected narrowly broad of the submit.
Sadly, the opening exchanges of the second half have been just like these of the first: completely dire. Despite Southampton make two adjustments at half-time – bringing on Joe Aribo and Juan Larrios – the guests did not look remotely able to scoring a goal, whereas at the different finish Bailey had misplaced the ball 23 instances in the first 60 minutes of the game.
It wasn’t good. At all.
And simply after we thought the game could not get any worse, after the seventieth minute mark, it really did.
Neither Aston Villa or Southampton did something that, by any stretch, might be known as ‘good’. One of the two highlights of the second half was maybe Mohammed Salisu calling all of his teammates in to the penalty space forward of an extended throw, solely to then throw the ball straight out for a goal kick. And that was solely a spotlight as a result of it was humorous.
The different spotlight was the last whistle.
