Watch Mings’ gorgeous clearance as Aston Villa safe first-leg win at Membership Brugge

Watch Mings’ gorgeous clearance as Aston Villa safe first-leg win at Membership Brugge

Tyrone Mings was one of many Aston Villa heroes at Membership Brugge final night time, his unbelievable clearance finishing the “unfinished enterprise” from his facet’s go to to Belgium earlier within the season.

Villa misplaced 1-0 on the Jan Breydelstadion within the Champions League group part in November with Mings gifting away the match-winning penalty after a catastrophic mix-up with goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez.

However he was excellent on their return to Bruges as Villa gained the primary leg of their spherical of 16 playoff 3-1.

Unimaginable clearance from Mings units Villa up for late win

He excelled specifically with one second-half clearance that by some means prevented a header from Hans Vanaken discovering the nook with the sport delicately poised at 1-1.

BEST GOAL-LINE CLEARANCE EVER??? 😱

Tyrone Mings stops Hans Vanaken from giving Brugge the lead in SPECTACULAR type 🤯

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Mings stated: “I used to be very happy to come back again right here and play on this stadium once more as a result of I feel we had unfinished enterprise.

“I’m very pleased with what we have now achieved tonight. I actually loved this recreation. We performed towards them [in the league phase] and knew a little bit of what to anticipate.

“The sport was precisely as we anticipated. We could be pleased with each our defensive and attacking play.”

Mings was additionally efficient on the different finish with a header that enabled Leon Bailey to offer Villa an early lead.

Maxim De Cuyper levelled however a late personal objective from Brandon Mechele and a Marco Asensio penalty handed Unai Emery’s males a robust benefit to take again to Birmingham for the return recreation subsequent week.

Emery hails marvellous Mings

The Villa boss singled Mings out for reward afterwards, saying: “The primary expertise he had right here was not good.

“At this time, he reacted unbelievable, taking part in centered and critical, saving one motion which might have been a objective. We’re demanding inside. Each participant must be demanding with themselves.

“I do know the difficulties of soccer and the way we are able to get experiences and get higher, that is my solely goal with the gamers.

“We corrected some issues from the match we performed right here [in November]. In fact, we have now to right some issues that didn’t work effectively right now for the subsequent match towards Brugge.”