Chelsea and Arsenal target Jhon Duran ‘has everything’, says Aston Villa team-mate after Champions League win

Youri Tielemans says his Aston Villa team-mate Jhon Duran ‘has everything’ aft helium scored successful the awesome 2-0 triumph implicit Bologna to assistance Unai Emery’s broadside spell apical of the Champions League.

Villa’s inspiring Champions League travel continued connected Tuesday arsenic they downed Serie A broadside Bologna to determination to the apical of the league signifier aft 3 games.

Emery’s squad thumped Young Boys 3-0 successful their Champions League opener backmost inSeptember and beat Bayern Munich 1-0 astatine Villa Park earlier this month.

Duran scored the victor that day and determination were likewise joyous scenes successful Birmingham this evening arsenic Villa maintained their cleanable commencement to the European contention against Bologna.

John McGinn broke the deadlock with an inswinging free-kick soon aft half-time and the crippled was efficaciously enactment to furniture 10 minutes aboriginal erstwhile Duran swept location Villa’s second.

It was Duran’s seventh extremity of the play connected his archetypal Villa Park commencement successful 11 months and volition surely pb to much speculation implicit his aboriginal astatine the nine up of the January transportation window.

The Colombia planetary was linked with moves to Chelsea and West Ham past summer and it was reported earlier Aston Villa’s latest Champions League crippled that Arsenal were besides funny successful securing his signature successful January.

Discussing his team-mate’s strengths, Tielemans told TNT Sports: ‘Duran has everything.

‘He has technique, helium tin clasp the shot and tin flick on. He is an each circular striker.’

Duran fto his emotions get the amended of him erstwhile helium was replaced by Ollie Watkins instantly aft scoring, kicking a spot successful the dugout aft being taken disconnected by Emery.

‘He is truly funny,’ Tielemans said erstwhile asked astir Duran’s reaction. ‘The manager does not care. He knows everyone wants to play. It is portion of the game.’

Aston Villa brag Emery besides played down Duran’s absorption and praised his squad for playing ‘serious’ and effectual football.

‘We are playing seriously, we are playing focused, liable and the squad is progressing and mature successful everything,’ helium said.

‘We tried to interruption the property antheral to man. We conceded immoderate things successful the archetypal 15 minutes but past reacted precise well.

‘It is ever hard astatine location successful Europe. We person had to effort and beryllium accordant successful our gameplan for 90 minutes and I deliberation we did that today.’

Villa finished 4th successful the Premier League past play to suffice for the Champions League and are successful the aforesaid presumption aft 8 games of the 2024-25 campaign.

‘It is amazing,’ McGinn said of Villa’s commencement to the Champions League. ‘Three games in, 3 wins and astir important for america is nary goals conceded.

‘We don’t privation to halt here. It puts america successful a large position. Some players came backmost and present we look truly strong.

‘What we are gathering present is amazing. This is location for me. It is my seventh play here, we’ve had ups and downs. It has been a rollercoaster. Hopefully we tin support climbing.’

Ex-Arsenal and England defender Martin Keown was among those to wage tribute to Emery aft Aston Villa celebrated different Champions League victory.

Emery had a spell successful the Premier League with Arsenal earlier Villa but struggled astatine the Emirates Stadium earlier being sacked successful November 2019.

‘Quietly Unai Emery is taking this nine Aston Villa backmost to the large time,’ Keown said.

‘It has been 40 oregon truthful years since they won the Champions League, but it feels similar thing is happening again. It is each coming backmost again.

‘There is thing peculiar astir this nine and this stadium and present they person a peculiar manager who is putting thing peculiar together.

‘They were 4th from bottommost [in the Premier League] erstwhile helium arrived. It is unthinkable what helium is doing close now.’

Rio Ferdinand, the erstwhile Manchester United defender, added: ‘What Unai Emery has done astatine Aston Villa is thing abbreviated of a miracle.

‘Before helium came successful they looked lost, but helium has instilled a assurance and content successful the club.

‘You tin consciousness it erstwhile you travel present to the stadium, determination is simply a genuine assurance that they tin invited immoderate squad present and bushed them. 

‘On their time they tin bushed anybody, due to the fact that they person players that tin wounded people. They person a large benignant of play, a large operation and the players each cognize what they are doing.’

Aston Villa volition look to proceed their awesome tally of signifier connected Saturday erstwhile they look Bournemouth, who ended Arsenal’s unbeaten commencement to the play past clip out.

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