Unai Emery left horrified at Tyrone Mings' Aston Villa error that will 'never be repeated'

Villa’s brag was furious with the determination to grant a punishment aft the centre-half’s handball blunder that talented Club Brugge a way to victory

Unai Emery said Tyrone Mings’s mistake volition ‘never beryllium repeated’ arsenic Aston Villa’s Champions League bandwagon crushed to an abrupt halt.

Villa’s brag was furious with the determination to grant a punishment aft the centre-half’s handball blunder that talented Club Brugge a way to victory. Emery’s men were eyeing a 4th consecutive triumph successful the contention but the aboriginal second-half lapse enactment them connected the backmost foot.

Mings mistakenly handled aft Emi Martinez kicked the shot to him from a extremity kick. It was akin to the incidental of 7 months agone astatine the Emirates erstwhile Arsenal defender Gabriel and David Raya truthful infuriated Thomas Tuchel.

Emery said: “This mistake is not going to beryllium repeated again, I deliberation ne'er successful my life, ne'er again. We enactment to effort to power games done keeping possession. We were ever successful presumption to retrieve - but this is simply a precise unusual mistake.”

The 52nd-minute contention gave Bruges a foothold successful the crippled and they fought for their lives to support it.

Mings, who had already been booked for an elbow, was moving the hazard of a dismissal and chap Villa defender Ezri Konsa said the referee should person sent him disconnected if helium thought the handball was deliberate.

He said: “I didn’t spot it. But I saw their players moving towards the ref saying: ‘Handball,’ and who knows? It’s conscionable 1 of those. It killed the game.

“It was goalless and I deliberation if it is simply a deliberate handball and he’s connected a yellowish already, wherefore didn’t helium nonstop him off? It killed the game. It’s a mistake. It’s not a mistake we privation to marque but there’s thing we tin bash now, we’ve got to determination connected from it.”

Bruges manager Nicky Hayen said: “For definite it was a punishment and we knew it immediately. He took the shot and pushed it back. In the end, it was a penalty. But if we had to concede thing similar that, it would person been precise sour. It’s a tiny contiguous that we volition instrumentality connected gladly.”

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